Hosts Kelsi Wilmot and Tyler Townsend welcome guest Sarah Stricker, Director of Crisis Counseling Program at Hill Country MHDD Centers to the Beyond the Label podcast to share community updates from Mental Health Month, including proclamations in all 19 counties and clinic events, and then shift to the 2025 flood response and recent severe storms.
Sarah describes her background (military corpsman, nursing, neurofeedback, residential trauma treatment) and her current work leading the Crisis Counseling Program (CCP), which provides non-traditional, community-based support by showing up at events, connecting people to resources, and coordinating local help. The group discusses storm-related triggers, grounding and validation techniques, and how people can be affected even without direct losses (survivor’s remorse, secondary and vicarious trauma). They share coping strategies—music, guitar and songwriting, being outdoors, and sports—and invite community topic suggestions via Hill Country MHDD’s Facebook and YouTube.
Key highlights:
- Podcast Mission and May Events
- Storms and Flood Response Focus
- What the Crisis Counseling Program Does
- Community Outreach and Destigmatizing
- Coping With Storm Anxiety
- Survivor Guilt and Secondary Trauma
- Autopilot Brain and Resilience Tricks
- Favorite Coping Strategies Roundtable
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