APPROVED & FUNDED BY THE CITY OF OAKLAND · BUILT FOR FIRST RESPONDERS
Mental health care firefighters will actually use.
Most programs never reach the people who need them. This one has — for over two years inside Oakland Fire, on a city-funded contract the city renewed. We now work with departments beyond Oakland.
1st
U.S. practice a city has funded to deliver ketamine-assisted therapy to first responders
2+ yrs
delivered to Oakland Fire
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firefighters treated
✓
approved & renewed by the City of Oakland
* Not experimental — a city government approved this program and renewed the contract.
What the job does to people, and what it costs you
The work wears people down — repeated calls, bad sleep, missed holidays, years of staying composed when nothing about the situation is calm. It catches up as burnout, anxiety, PTSD, marriages under strain, and drinking or weed that started as a way to come down after shift.
For a department, none of that is abstract. It's people calling in, going out on leave, or walking away from the job.
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Turnover
XX%
Disability
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Leave
XX%
Statistic
You've offered help before. Here's what usually goes wrong.
Most departments already have something — an EAP, in-network therapists, peer support, a chaplain. The trouble starts when a firefighter actually goes: they sit with a counselor who's never been in a firehouse and spend the first sessions explaining the job before they get to anything real. Most don't go back.
What's been missing is a program built for firefighters, run by people who already understand the work.
Built for first responders, start to finish
Clinicians who've done the job
Current and former first responders, including an ICU nurse. Nobody needs the firehouse explained to them.
We get station culture
The "deal with it later" reflex, the fear of coming apart. We expect it — which is why people stay in treatment.
Works when talking hasn't
Ketamine-assisted therapy with EMDR, the most established trauma treatment there is. Reaches what talk therapy couldn't.
Confidential & separate
Healthcare, not a personnel matter. Nothing in a file, no effect on standing. Often the only reason they come in.
Two years inside Oakland Fire
This wasn't tested in a lab. We've run it inside a working fire department, on a city contract, for more than two years — and the City of Oakland renewed it.
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firefighters treated
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[best outcome]
✓
contract renewed
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[second outcome]
“[ Quote from Chief Chris Foley or department leadership ]” — [Name, Title]
Easy to bring in. Fits how your department already runs.
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We talk — a short call about your department and what you're dealing with.
We set it up — structure, referral path, and funding. [FILL IN]
Your people get care — confidential, in person or virtual, around shifts.
You see results — [what the department gets back].
*The Oakland program is paid for by the city, at no cost to the firefighters. We'll walk you through how that's set up and how it adapts to your department.
QUESTIONS YOU’RE PROBABLY ASKING
Straight answers
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FDA-approved, legal, given in a clinical supervised setting as part of structured therapy. Nobody takes it alone.
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Confidential and kept separate from the department. Healthcare, not a personnel issue.
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[ short version — see section 7 ]
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Item description - [ confirm with Chris — likely the real question ]
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Most do. This reaches the firefighters an EAP doesn't.
About True Yang
Led by Marni Levy, LMFT, with a team of trauma-trained clinicians — several current or former first responders. The first practice in the country to partner with a city to bring ketamine-assisted therapy to first responders, with two years doing it inside a working fire department.
See if it's a fit for your department
The first call is short, and there's no commitment.
Already trusted by the City of Oakland.