Resources

Heidi Monuteaux
heidi@befreecounseling.com
www.befreecounseling.com
(206) 304-3345

Heidi has been working with families in some capacity for over 20 years as a coach, mentor, teacher and mental health counselor. She has extensive experience providing therapeutic services to children, adolescents, and families both within community health and school-based settings. She has experience working in an in-patient medical setting working with adults that have complex medical and behavioral issues. In addition, her father and grandfather were both first responders and she is passionate about helping individuals and families navigate the challenges of this work.

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Justin Monuteaux, MA, MBA, LMHC, CSAT  
justin@befreecounseling.com
www.befreecounseling.com
(206) 304-7678

Justin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) Candidate at BeFree Counseling in Bellevue and Renton who specializes in working with couples, men and adolescent boys who have been impacted by compulsive sexual behaviors. In addition, he works with a wide variety of issues including: Infidelity, Trauma, Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Alcohol & Drug use, Premarital counseling, Communication/Conflict Resolution in relationships, Life Transitions, Spiritual Concern.
Justin has extensive experience working with first responders, couples and families as well as at-risk and incarcerated youth. His experience spans 20 years of work as a therapist, mentor and teacher. Justin married into a law enforcement family almost 20 years ago and is passionate about helping first responders deal with the unique challenges of the important work they do every day.

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Dr. Maureen Pierce
​www.firstresponderps.com

"Dr. Maureen Pierce is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Des Moines, Washington specializing in providing treatment to first responders... She presently works with a number of South King, City of Seattle, and Pierce County paramedics, firefighters, police officers, and troopers... Dr. Pierce’s clinical work is focused on treating posttraumatic stress disorder and chronic pain, especially in the first responder community. Dr. Pierce has a specialty in utilizing Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) a type of evidence based treatment for trauma. Dr. Pierce was a pain psychologist at Swedish Pain and Headache Center for 6.5 years and continues to be on medical staff at Swedish..."

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Dr. Sandy Tudor
Aquiline Counseling LLC

Dr. Tudor is a retired Police Officer that has a counseling practice in Renton specializing in Relationships and Communication among a variety of other specialties. She also has a personal background as a first-responder and can help you work through firefighter-specific issues.

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http://www.firefighterwife.com

Their mission is "​Less divorce.  To create a safe, encouraging community of people to connect with and walk through the highs and lows of life - and a place to reach out and get help when your marriage or life is spinning out of control."

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http://www.fireengineering.com/firelife.html

Mike and Anne Gagliano have written the book Challenges of the Firefighter Marriage.  There are over 200 articles on this site inspired by Anne and Mike.  Mike is a Captain with the Seattle Fire Department. Both are national key note speakers whos intent and message is designed to help promote healthy, long lasting marriages and relationships in the fire service.

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Twenty-Four Seven Commitment

This website is a blog and community aimed at being a resource for all things relationship in the Fire Service. Some resources to help wives/girlfriends figure out who they are, who they want to be and to make sure they are happy so the entire house is happy. There are also resources for husbands on strengthening their marriage.

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Stepstone Connect

Stepstone Connect is an organization based out of Utah connected to Dear Hollow.  Dear Hollow is geared around working with first responders and treating everything from post-traumatic stress to addictions.  Stepstone is a an alternative form of counseling, it is all done via video conferencing.  You don’t have to drive to an office and you don’t have to sit in a waiting room hoping to not be recognized.  You don’t have to figure out what day of the week you can go that fits in with your shift schedule and your family schedule.  You meet with a counselor on-line, they work around your shift work schedule, they can connect you with a specialist who just might happen to be in Florida but they are the best in the business with what you are dealing with. And they take insurance.

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