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[Meet Charle](/meet-charle)[How ART Works](/how-art-works)

[What I Treat](/what-art-treats)

-   [Acute and Complex Trauma](/what-art-treats/acute-and-complex-trauma)
-   [PTSD](/what-art-treats/ptsd)
-   [Single-Incident Trauma](/what-art-treats/single-incident-trauma)
-   [Phobias](/what-art-treats/phobias)
-   [Medical, Dental and Needle Fear](/what-art-treats/medical-and-dental-fear)
-   [Car Accidents and Driving Anxiety](/what-art-treats/car-accidents-and-driving-anxiety)
-   [Grief and Sudden Loss](/what-art-treats/grief-and-sudden-loss)
-   [Anxiety](/what-art-treats/anxiety)
-   [OCD](/what-art-treats/ocd)
-   [Emotion Regulation](/what-art-treats/emotion-regulation)

[Who I Work With](/who-i-work-with)

-   [First Responders](/who-i-work-with/first-responders)
-   [Veterans](/who-i-work-with/veterans)
-   [EMTs, ER and Healthcare Workers](/who-i-work-with/healthcare-workers)
-   [Therapists](/who-i-work-with/therapists)
-   [Doctors](/who-i-work-with/doctors)
-   [Corporate Leaders](/who-i-work-with/corporate-leaders)

[ART Intensives](/art-intensives)

[Locations](/locations)

-   [Kentucky](/locations/kentucky)
-   [Ohio](/locations/ohio)

[Rates](/rates)[For Clinicians](/for-clinicians)[Contact](/contact)[Schedule a consultation](https://calendly.com/reclaimtraumatherapy/freeconsultation)

Columbus, Ohio

# Therapy for First Responders in Columbus, OH

For sworn officers, firefighters, medics, dispatchers and corrections staff across Franklin County and the suburbs.

## Dispatch Counts Too

A lot of this work in Columbus involves people who were never on scene. Telecommunicators hear the whole thing and see none of it, stay on the line through the worst two minutes of somebody's life, and then take the next call in the queue with no walk back to a vehicle in between. The material lands, and there is rarely a debrief that includes the room.

For officers, medics and firefighters the pattern is different in content and similar in effect. A handful of runs stop being past events. They stay current, and they show up in sleep, in temper, in a reflex to scan every room you walk into off duty.

## Who Sees the File

Nobody in your agency. I am in private practice, hold no contract with any department, union, city, county or employer program in Ohio or Kentucky, and I do not send reports about your care to anyone. Your record is mine.

I also do not do evaluative work. No fitness-for-duty opinions, no return-to-work letters, no assessments written for a third party. That boundary is deliberate. It means the hour is yours and nothing you say in it is being collected for a decision somebody else is making about your career.

## Scheduling Around Rotations

Everything is by secure video and there is no Columbus office. That means no drive downtown on a day off and no waiting room where you might run into somebody from the academy. Adults only, private pay, and you need to be physically in Ohio or Kentucky.

Sessions are 60 minutes, or up to three hours as an intensive. For people on twelves and rotating nights, one long block after a stretch usually works better than a standing weekly appointment that a mandatory hold will eventually eat.

This is not a crisis service.

If you are in crisis, please call or text 988, call 911, or go to your nearest emergency room. ART is not appropriate during active psychosis or acute crisis. Individual outcomes vary.

## Also in Columbus

Everything here is by secure video, so where you are in Columbus makes no difference to the work. These are the other things I am most often asked about locally.

-   [ART therapy in Columbus](/therapy/columbus-art)
-   [PTSD therapy in Columbus](/therapy/columbus-ptsd)
-   [Phobia therapy in Columbus](/therapy/columbus-phobias)

[More about working with first responders](/who-i-work-with/first-responders)

## Fifteen minutes, no paperwork first.

Ask about confidentiality, about what a session involves, about anything.

[Schedule a free consultation](https://calendly.com/reclaimtraumatherapy/freeconsultation)[More for First Responders](/who-i-work-with/first-responders)[Therapy in Ohio](/locations/ohio)

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Reclaim Trauma Therapy

Focused, practical trauma therapy for adults. Accelerated Resolution Therapy and extended ART intensives, by secure video in Kentucky and Ohio.

Charle Peck, LCSW, LISW, M.Ed.

Practice

-   [Meet Charle](/meet-charle)
-   [Rates & Policies](/rates)
-   [For Referring Clinicians](/for-clinicians)
-   [Contact](/contact)

Treatment

-   [How ART Works](/how-art-works)
-   [ART Intensives](/art-intensives)
-   [Is ART Right for Me?](/is-art-right-for-me)
-   [Frequently Asked Questions](/faq)
-   [Writing](/blog)

What I Treat

-   [Acute and Complex Trauma](/what-art-treats/acute-and-complex-trauma)
-   [PTSD](/what-art-treats/ptsd)
-   [Phobias](/what-art-treats/phobias)
-   [Anxiety](/what-art-treats/anxiety)
-   [OCD](/what-art-treats/ocd)
-   [All Conditions](/what-art-treats)

Who I Work With

-   [First Responders](/who-i-work-with/first-responders)
-   [Veterans](/who-i-work-with/veterans)
-   [EMTs, ER and Healthcare Workers](/who-i-work-with/healthcare-workers)
-   [Therapists](/who-i-work-with/therapists)
-   [Doctors](/who-i-work-with/doctors)
-   [Corporate Leaders](/who-i-work-with/corporate-leaders)
-   [Who I Work With](/who-i-work-with)

Serving

-   [Kentucky](/locations/kentucky)
-   [Ohio](/locations/ohio)
-   [Where I Practice](/locations)

This practice is not a crisis or emergency service, and messages are not monitored around the clock. If you are in immediate danger, experiencing a mental health emergency, or having thoughts of ending your life with intent or a plan, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), call 911, or go to your nearest emergency room for an assessment. Veterans can press 1 after dialing 988.

Contacting this practice does not establish a client relationship. Individual outcomes vary. Nothing on this site guarantees a specific clinical result.

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