“I don’t need therapy; I just need to get over it.”

“I just react in ways I don’t want to.”



“I worry a therapist wouldn’t fully understand my experience.”

“Adjusting to civilian life and work is way harder than I thought it would be.”

  “When my partner comes home after deployment it takes a long time to feel ‘normal’.”

 “Moving frequently takes a big toll on our family.”

In order to be “mission ready” and react in the ways that are required to be successful in the military your brain learns to be hypervigilant.  You also learn to put “mission first.”  However, these same things that make you successful in your career can be the same things that make your civilian life challenging.  Especially, if you’ve been in combat, your body may have learned to react in ways that kept you alive there–but might make interactions with friends and family challenging back home.

Families of veterans have their own unique challenges.  Having a spouse or parent deploy means holding the fort alone at home, dealing with anxiety about potential safety of a partner, and having to navigate re-entry of the service person when they return, which is often the hardest part of a deployment. 

  • 38% of veterans have a diagnosed mental health disorder (many people
    expect that this number is much higher due to underreporting)

  • 40.7% of Veterans feel like a “guest” in their own homes

  • According to DHA, 60-70% of service members with mental health needs
    do not seek treatment  due to fear of employment ramifications, stigma,
    and military culture. 

  • Military spouses have higher rates of mental illness

Thank you for your service to our country.  While many of these reactions including PTSD are often “pathologized” the truth is they are often common reactions to intense stressors and ways the brain has learned to adapt.  Likewise, the brain can re-adapt to functioning in a healthy way for civilian life. 

While as therapists we may not understand everything about your experience, we use excellent evidence-based research about how to help veterans and their families transition to civilian life, to deal with PTSD, and other issues.  If you’d like to hear from other service members and veterans who have benefitted from mental health services you can check out:  https://www.health.mil/Military-Health-Topics/Centers-of-Excellence/Psychological-Health-Center-of-Excellence/Real-Warriors-Campaign/Videos

There are also lots of amazing tools to help families with depression, anxiety, high mobility and re-entry issues.  Momentum has clinicians who are veterans, who are spouses of veterans, and clinicians who have specialty training working with veterans. 

We would love to help. Together we can work to overcome:

  • Adjustment Issues

  • Anxiety

  • Couples counseling

  • Culture Shock

  • Deployment/Re-Entry Issues

  • Depression

  • Grief Work

  • Identity

  • Panic Attacks

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

  • Self-Concept Work

  • Transition

    Please reach out for a free 15-minute consultation with one of our clinicians who specialize in this area.