Carrie Steiner still remembers the day in 2009 when a Chicago police officer called and told her he had a gun in his lap and wanted to kill himself.
A Chicago cop herself who got a doctorate in psychology while working on the force, Steiner said she encouraged the officer to seek help from the department’s counseling staff.
He had just left them, he told her, and didn’t believe they could understand him. Still, the officer decided not to end his life.
The encounter spurred Steiner to leave the department and open a practice staffed by therapists with backgrounds as first responders.
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