123: Police Family Support and Surviving Retirement, w/ Dr. Medina Baumgart

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In this episode, Dr. Medina Baumgart connects her experiences professionally as a psychologist supporting first responders and agencies and personally as a first responder spouse.
We go from her background from education to being an agency embedded mental health professional, and dive into the dynamics of adjusting back to home life for the first responder. Dr. Baumgart covers tips and insights that bring understanding for those in uniform to their spouses and families and how we can do it with intention.
Further, we talk about retirement, how to get there healthfully and the little things that will help ensure we are thriving and actually getting that pension we worked so hard for!
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Dr. Medina Baumgart is a licensed psychologist in California and a board-certified specialist in Police and Public Safety Psychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). She works full-time as an embedded psychologist within a large metropolitan law enforcement agency where she provides counseling, critical incident debriefings, crisis response, critical incident rollouts, training, consultation to peer support and chaplains programs, and consultation and support to patrol stations and jail facilities.

Outside of her full-time work, Dr. Baumgart enjoys teaching and providing consultation to other law enforcement agencies on a range of topics including officer resilience, retirement, peer support, critical incidents, post-traumatic stress, and suicide. She is also married to a now-retired police officer and knows firsthand some of the challenges that officers and spouses experience throughout a law enforcement career and into retirement.

Website - www.drbaumgart.com

Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/in/drbaumgart/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dr_baumgart/

“Surviving Retirement” Book (Amazon) - https://a.co/d/0QzXuya

Retirement Resilience Course - https://www.drbaumgart.com/surviving-retirement

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