What Is First Responder Reset? 

You can be good at the job and still feel the effects of doing it.

Years of shift work, interrupted sleep, critical incidents, high responsibility, hypervigilance, and repeatedly pushing through can affect your sleep, energy, relationships, mental health, and ability to shut the job off when the shift ends.

First Responder Reset helps explain what's happening beneath the surface.

Each episode takes the science behind trauma, stress, sleep, burnout, and mental health and translates it into practical conversations that make sense within the realities of first responder and high-stress professional culture.

The goal isn't to make you less capable of doing the job. It's to help you stay well while doing it.

What You'll Hear on First Responder Reset

Build a Career You Can Survive

Operational Wellness • Sleep Deprivation • Fatigue • Burnout • Career Sustainability

Understand what years of shift work, chronic stress, high responsibility, and repeated exposure can do to your brain and body—and learn practical ways to protect your health and wellness throughout your career.

Heal From the Calls That Stick

Trauma • PTSD • Critical Incidents • Cumulative Trauma • Hypervigilance

Explore why certain calls stay with you, how cumulative exposure can build over time, and what happens when your brain and body continue responding to experiences long after the incident is over.

Reconnect Beyond the Badge

Marriage • Family • Relationships • Home Life

Understand how the job can follow you home—and learn practical ways to transition out of work mode, reconnect with the people you love, and protect your life outside the job.

Who Is First Responder Reset For?

First Responder Reset is designed for law enforcement officers, firefighters, EMS and paramedics, dispatchers, corrections professionals, healthcare professionals, military members and veterans, and others working in high-stress and high-responsibility careers.

It's also for the spouses and families who want to better understand how these careers can affect the people they love.

Whether you're early in your career, decades into the job, approaching retirement, or already wondering whether years of pushing through are starting to catch up with you, you'll find conversations here designed to help you understand what's happening—and what you can do about it.

About Your Host

Amie Peterson, LMHC

Amie Peterson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist, and First Responder Mental Health Specialist with more than 15 years of experience in behavioral health.

Amie comes from a multigenerational law enforcement family. Her father served in law enforcement for 34 years and retired as Chief of Police, and several other members of her family have served behind the badge. She grew up understanding the culture of the profession—and that the impact of the job doesn't always end when the shift does.

Her professional work has included veterans, trauma, first responders, healthcare professionals, and others in high-stress careers, along with consulting, training, and operational wellness work with departments and organizations.

Through First Responder Reset, Amie translates trauma science and mental health into practical information you can use both on and off the job.