Firefighter Relationship Survival: Top 10 Answers

As members of the fire service, the cumulative stress and trauma you experience on the job doesn't just affect you — it affects your family as well. When relationship issues arise, this can dramatically increase the level of stress you must manage and can also impact your work performance. Family problems can also create additional issues for supervisors and company officers trying to balance the needs of their personnel, while also ensuring department goals are met.

Join Lexipol as Dr. Rachelle Zemlok and Deputy Chief Billy Goldfeder take your questions and discuss strategies to address the issues firefighters face at home as well as how supervisors and company officers can address those everyday challenges to help keep personnel healthy, both physically and mentally.

Your questions will determine the focus of our webinar, so please submit a question as you register.

...Shift schedules...

...Forced/Mandated Overtime...

...Missed holidays...

...The bad calls...

...Kids wondering where you are...

...Exhaustion...

...Relationships...and the firehouse...

Spouses resenting how the fire department often seems to come first. Being a Firefighter and being in a relationship is not always easy. When relationship issues – with partners, spouses, children and even friends – arise, it can dramatically increase the level of stress you must manage and can also impact your work performance.

...and if you’re a Chief, Company officer or other supervisor, you know that family/relationship problems often dominate station talk and sometimes get in the way of meeting department goals.

JOIN Dr. Rachelle Zemlok (married with children, to a career Fire Captain) who will be covering the researched top 10 questions on Firefighter relationships. Dr Z will be sharing tips and strategies on how we can all address the issues we face at home and stay healthy—physically and mentally. Please join us for this no cost, highly valuable event (promise!) from Dr Zemlock, who was the keynote speaker at Fire Rescue Int'l in 2022.

Presented by:

Dr. Rachelle Zemlok Clinical Psychologist Strategic Wellness Director, Lexipol	Deputy Chief Billy Goldfeder Loveland-Symmes (OH) Fire Department