477 Butterfield Rd. # 408-410 Lombard, IL 60148
1412 W. Washington 2nd Floor Chicago, IL 60607
100 TriState International #260 Lincolnshire, IL 60069
8 am-8 pm M-F Sat 9 am-3 pm
First
Responders
Wellness Center
Services for Police, Fire/EMS, Corrections, Federal Law Enforcement, Dispatch, ER Staff, and Veterans.
The First Responders Wellness Center (FRWC) is a psychological and training resource for first responders, departments and federal agencies. FRWC specializes in strategic therapy and intervention techniques for law enforcement, fire service, EMS/EMT, corrections, ER staff, federal law enforcement agencies, and veterans.
The FRWC provides specialized training, intervention, crisis management, and therapy. Therapy services include EMDR, Exposure, Neurofeedback, and Cognitive Behavioral therapy. These therapies are all evidenced-based therapies, practical, and action-oriented for the needs of first responders.
The FRWC also conducts psychological testing for police and public safety service members including pre-employment selection, special duty, and fitness for duty.
The FRWC also is in partnership with the "Headstrong Project; to heal the hidden wounds of war." The Headstrong Project is a non-profit organization that offers free psychological services to veterans showing signs or symptoms of PTSD and/or mental health issues. If you are a veteran please register through the website at www.getheadstrong.org and click "get treated" tab. The Headstrong Project is designed to offer completely confidential and "bureaucracy-free" psychological services specifically for veterans, service members, and their families, aiming to remove barriers to accessing mental health care by eliminating paperwork and stigma associated with seeking help.
FRWC provides Individual, Couple and Group therapy, Individual and Group debriefs, Wellness Visits, Pre-employment Evaluations, Fitness for Duty Evaluations, FOID Evaluations, Training and Consultation.
Therapy
Therapy services include one-on one, group, and couples. We use evidence based treatments that work on present situations. We offer several trauma based therapeutic interventions including:
Wellness Visits
The First Responders Wellness Center offers the confidential wellness visits
Pre-Employment Psychological Evaluations
Pre-employment testing includes a background review and interview.
Fitness for Duty Evaluations
A Fitness for Duty Evaluation is not a standard psychological evaluation but focused upon the question of the first responders' occupational or vocational functionality.
How the First Responders Wellness Center was created.
by Dr. Steiner
In 1998, I started as a Chicago police officer. My first day out of the academy, I was directed to go to the 18th district. When I arrived, my field training officer stated that we were going to attend a wake of an officer who killed himself from the district. That year, three other officers from the 18th district killed themselves. I was told by officers at the 18th district, that all of the officers who killed themselves had ‘personal problems’. I wondered what type of personal problems they had.
The following year, I remember waiting in roll call for my partner and being told with everyone else in roll call that my partner was dead, and I would be working 99 (by myself). I remember wanting to burst into tears but did not. However, after roll call, I cried in the women’s locker room and then went to my car and worked that night for the first time by myself on midnights. I was told my partner died of positional asphyxiation as he was so drunk and passed out underneath his steering wheel.
CONTACT INFO:
630-909-9094
We want to support our first responders and trauma survivors. Please contact us for help with a crisis, individual and couples therapy, individual and/or group debriefing, psychological testing, or any trainings.
