Katie Carlson - Officer Wellness Director, Peer Support Team Coordinator

Katie Carlson joins us on the podcast.Katie is the director of wellness initiatives and peer support team coordinator for the Marion County Sheriffs office in Indianapolis Indiana. She also serves as an instructor at multiple law enforcement academies where she teaches meditation, yoga, breath work, and crisis intervention strategies to public safety professionals, with a focus on nervous system regulation and trauma recovery. Katie shares with us about her background as the departments Public Information Officer prior to assuming her current role, and the work she did in the political arena prior to that. Katie also shares openly about her own trauma's, challenges she has faced, struggles she has endured, how she overcame those experiences, and how she has incorporated what she learned along the way into the delivery of wellness to her organization.