About the Counseling Program
TEEX’s Public Safety Wellness and Counseling Program, based in College Station, provides public safety professionals with professional, confidential mental health counseling using evidence-based practices to enhance overall well-being and resilience.
What We Offer
The program offers both in-person and virtual counseling options to ensure accessible support for those serving across Texas. In addition to direct counseling services, licensed clinicians within the program provide training and consultation to other mental health professionals, equipping them to deliver culturally competent, trauma-informed care to those who serve in public safety roles.
Counseling Services
To qualify for no-cost counseling, individuals must experience one or more barriers, such as difficulty finding clinician’s familiar with first responder issues, financial constraints, scheduling challenges due to shift work, or reluctance to seek workplace mental health resources due to stigma.
Internships
The Public Safety Wellness training program offers a graduate-level internship for master’s students in counseling and related mental health fields. Through hands-on experience and clinical supervision, interns gain specialized skills in supporting public safety professionals and responding effectively to trauma.
Our Counselors and Interns
Counselors
Alisa McDonald
Program Director, LPC-S
Dan Cohen
MS, LPC-Associate, LP
Dawn Ament
M.Ed., LPC
Christopher Loup
LPC
Michelle Morris
LPC-S, NCC
Interns
Ashley Arredondo
Intern