The O2X Tactical Performance Podcast: 92 – Dr. David Meyer
Dr. David Meyer is an O2X Resilience Specialist and a licensed Clinical Psychologist with a focus on PTSD/trauma -While attending college for environmental science and psychology, he worked as an EMT/firefighter with the US Forest Service. In his 14 years ...
-Dr. David Meyer is an O2X Resilience Specialist and a licensed Clinical Psychologist with a focus on PTSD/trauma
-While attending college for environmental science and psychology, he worked as an EMT/firefighter with the US Forest Service. In his 14 years of fire/EMS experience, he served as a wildland firefighter, EMT, engine foreman, and helicopter rappeler with the Jackson Helitack before deciding to shift his career toward psychology, with an emphasis on trauma and work with first responders and survivors of trauma
-He earned his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of South Dakota with a specialization in Disaster Psychology through the Disaster Mental Health Institute. In this time, he responded with the American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Team and worked with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center in Thailand and completed his internship with multiple VA Healthcare Systems. For his postdoctoral fellowship, he served as the project director for a study focused on risk and resilience in firefighters, working with recruits throughout the US and Canada to identify potential factors that increase resilience
-He then went on to work with the Maine VA Healthcare System as a member of the PTSD Clinical Treatment Team for five years, where he offered trauma focused treatment to military, veterans, and first responders. Today Dr. Meyer is part of Health Psych Maine, a group practice in Waterville, Maine, where he works with clients on managing stress, treating symptoms of PTSD, and mood disorders. He specializes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and empirically supported treatments. He has worked with multiple law enforcement agencies and corrections facilities as well as being included in a Maine Public Broadcasting documentary, A Matter of Duty
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