EMS Mental Health & Substance Use Treatment
Mental health is a crucial concern for emergency medical providers, who are often called to respond to traumatic scenes and witness heartbreaking situations. In conversations around EMS mental health, it is important to understand the unique challenges faced and the real-world implications these problems can have.
Healing Our Heroes Retreat Behavioral Health’s inpatient and outpatient treatment centers in Palm Beach County, Orange County, and Miami-Dade County offer a full continuum of care for our EMS patients, including structured programs and holistic therapies created with their needs in mind. EMS providers in need of treatment will find various services geared toward treating PTSD and depression, as well as medical detox and comprehensive treatment for substance use disorder. Contact us to get started on the road to recovery.
We Provide Tailored Support for EMT & Paramedic Mental Health
Our Florida treatment centers include dedicated services addressing the mental health of EMS providers. These services are designed around an understanding of the physical, mental, and emotional complexities of working as a paramedic and the potential for them to play a role in the development of substance use and other mental health disorders.
Paramedics work in a high-stress environment and are regularly exposed to some of the worst moments in the lives of civilians. Ongoing exposure to these events can lead to severe mental health struggles and a high risk of alcohol and/or drug dependence. Alcoholism is particularly common in EMS providers and can be used to escape the job’s trauma and cope with its daily stressors. For many, the job can also result in co-occurring mental health disorders that must be treated jointly in order to get on a clear path to recovery.
We Use a Variety
of Treatments
Mental health support for paramedics includes both individual counseling and group therapy, both of which are foundational to our treatment philosophy. Additionally, paramedics in need of mental health services gain access to cutting-edge techniques for treating depression and PTSD, such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and BrainsWay deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (dTMS).
Central to our paramedic mental health services is Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT). Based on the wider discipline of cognitive behavior therapy, CPT uses targeted steps to treat PTSD, depression, and their corresponding symptoms.
Program includes the following:
Our Florida Treatment Centers
Each of Healing Our Heroes Retreat Behavioral Health’s Florida treatment centers offers dynamic and thorough care for EMS providers, with a support system based on the mental health challenges shared by the paramedic community. We also offer supplemental resources and support for the family members of paramedics, many of whom are directly impacted by their loved one’s struggles. If you’re an EMT or paramedic struggling with mental health and substance abuse, or if you know an EMT or paramedic who is struggling, please contact us for more information or to schedule an intake.
Call (855) 859-8808 for direct assistance