Harts and Ladders

OVERVIEW

Education meets intensive supportive counseling for first responders and veterans-focusing on harm reduction, suicide prevention, grief and toxic stress processing. When shit hits the fan at work, you lean on your team. Years of training and practical street experience make you a great first responder, leader in the community, willing and able to care for others. But who comes to you, when you need it? Who do you lean on when you no longer can keep your shit together? That’s where our street smart and no-nonsense approach to mental health comes in.

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BRINGING CALM TO CHAOS

GOALS

Provide comprehensive education of mental health and toxic stress response in terms that you understand.
Create spaces where first responders, vets can be seen and heard, while also processing toxic stress.
Coach responders, vets and their families on helpful communication, education on behaviors and the brain and support from those who are in it with you.
Provide stop-gap by creating network of providers, supports to help reduce self harm and suicide.
Provide proactive and preventative care, supplement current care, and continuously follow up to maintain sustainable success.

WHAT WE OFFER

Designed, created and implemented by those who understand the life, who have lived it and get it. We aren’t your typical therapists. Clinically trained, street smart clinicians working to reduce suicides, self harm and substance abuse. We offer monthly debrief sessions where we come to you, ’Bullshit and Bbq’- relaxed therapy but without the couch. Our ‘Cigars and Synapses: The fire and smoke of the brain’, a series where we offer education of our brain and behaviors and support through a group where cigars are encouraged, though not mandatory. Our more intensive education based lecture and lean in series, where we customize the needs of the training based on the needs of the team. We offer a comprehensive of trusted and vetted therapists that understand the life you live at work and home.

In the wake of the call:

At Harts and Ladders we believe that education should be collaborative, engaged and relaxed. Providing education on the brain and how it works, is a passion here and delivered in terms you can understand. Utilizing life examples with those in attendance, allows the program to be tailored to various populations easily and effectively. Organizations can have repeat sessions to cover multiple parts of education of toxic stress, its effects on brains, bodies and relationships. As well as how to manage the cumulative toxic stress.

WHO WE ARE

Not your traditional therapists.

Co-founder, lead therapist.

Erica Conklin, LPC

Wife and Widow of Philadelphia Fireman and Army Guard Veteran Brian Conklin, is a mother of two, a therapist, trauma and crisis expert, with first hand experience and knowledge with military and first responders. She is a Lady of Delco who brings a combination of personal experience, deep compassion and professional knowledge to every conversation she has

Co-founder, social worker

Justin Jenkins, LSW

Lancaster transplant, husband, trauma and male advocate and experience specialist. Cigars and shop, utilizing a lived experience approach to teaching first responders and their families resilience, mood regulation and communication.

Co-founder, social worker

Ashley Jenkins, MSW

Daughter of a green beret turned social worker and advocate. Knows her firearms, and understands the importance of firearm safety. Clinical trained in working with males in both forensic and community settings, offering various knowledge of resources in Chester county.