Ellen Kirschman, PhD

Ellen Kirschman, Ph.D. is a California-licensed psychologist and volunteer clinician at the First Responders Support Network. She is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and The American Psychological Association. Her work has been recognized by the California Psychological Association’s 2014 award for distinguished contribution to psychology and the American Psychological Association’s 2010 award for outstanding contribution to the practice of police and public safety psychology. She travels worldwide, giving workshops for first responders and their families as well as clinicians working with first responder clients. She is the author of I Love a Cop: What Police Families Need to Know, I Love a Fire Fighter: What the Family Needs to Know, lead author of Counseling Cops: What Clinicians Need to Know, and three mysteries, Burying Ben, The Right Wrong Thing, and The Fifth Reflection all told from the perspective of police psychologist Dot Meyerhoff.