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Code4Couples
Communication Challenges in Special Assignments
Heather Williams, a law enforcement professional, turned police psychologist, and SWAT spouse talks about the unique challenges of special units, their impact on relationships and strategies to communicate and connect.
Grablives Podcast
34 Resilience: How First Responders Can Sustain Mental Health
Dr. Heather Williams returns to Grablives in a converation revolving around the word resilience and its important factors. The topics bring up reoccuring issues in relating to perseverance of mind, body, and spirit.
Grablives Podcast
29 Values
Dr. Heather Williams created Premier First Responder Psychological Services which focuses on crisis response and peer support for local fire and police departments. Heather joins Grablives by speaking on different avenues and ways of thought to provoke greater awareness.
NEP Media
Interview with Dr. Heather Williams, Psychologist with Premier First Responder Psychological Services
Enhance your emotional intelligence. Say what it is you’re thinking. Acknowledge how you’re feeling. And I call feeling the 'F' word of public safety because nobody likes to talk about it.
- Dr. Heather Williams
Behind the Badge
Williams was instrumental in creating the Orange County Sheriff’s Peer Support Team, which was launched in 2013 but which she joined in 2014. Today the team is made up of 75 sheriff’s employees, both sworn and professional staff, all of whom have volunteered their services.
Their role: to support peers in their personal or professional lives, whether that involves a divorce, alcohol, post-traumatic stress or death of a family member.
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The CalSouthern Difference Award Heather Williams
California Southern University named Heather Williams the recipient of the 2017 CalSouthern Difference Award, presented annually to a CalSouthern alumnus who has made a difference in his or her profession, field of study or local community through distinguished work, scholarship, innovation or service.
Heather is passionate about empowering and preparing employees to take charge of their physical and emotional survival, ultimately reducing stress, living happier more fulfilling lives and building inner resiliency.