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Confidential wellness for those who serve

Off the record.
On your side.

Confidential, peer-driven support for the law enforcement, corrections, fire, and EMS professionals who carry the weight of public safety, built by clinicians and people who've worked inside the system.

100% confidential · Independent of your employer

Arizona DOC pilotProven inside a statewide system
Clinician-builtLicensed mental-health leadership
100% confidentialSeparate from your employer
LE · Corrections · Fire · EMSPeer support that gets it
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Why OTR exists

The job changes you. Reaching out shouldn't cost you.

Public safety professionals carry trauma most people never see, inside a culture that says push it down and keep moving. Stigma, the fear of being flagged, and a quiet "who can I even talk to?" keep too many suffering in silence. OTR exists to make support safe, confidential, and built around the realities of the work.

What OTR offers

Support that understands the badge

Not a generic hotline. A wellness model designed for the people who run toward what others run from.

Confidential by design

Conversations stay off the record. What you share is never reported back to your department, your command, or your personnel file.

Peer support that gets it

Rank-aware, role-matched peer sessions with people who understand the job, moderated by neutral facilitators.

Clinically backed

Grounded in evidence-based practice and led by licensed mental-health clinicians with real correctional experience.

Independent of your employer

OTR is a neutral third party. We answer to your wellbeing, not to your chain of command.

Built for the realities

Burnout, sleep, hypervigilance, moral injury: support designed around what the work actually does to you.

Tools & resources

A private wellness portal and practical resources you can use on your own time, on your own terms.

How it works

Three steps. Zero paper trail to your employer.

  1. 1

    Reach out, quietly

    Start with a confidential conversation. No intake committee, no notification to your department.

  2. 2

    Get matched

    We connect you with rank-aware peer support and clinical backing suited to your role and what you're facing.

  3. 3

    Keep your footing

    Ongoing, off-the-record support and tools that fit a shift-work life, for as long as you need them.

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Peer support that gets it

Someone who's already walked it

Off-the-record conversations with peers who understand the job, backed by licensed clinicians. Not a script, not a stranger, and nothing in your file, just real support from people who've been there.

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Who's behind OTR

Built by clinicians and people who've worked inside

OTR's founders bring board-certified psychiatric care and years inside correctional facilities, frontline clinical work and internal-affairs investigative experience. They built OTR because they saw, up close, what untreated stress does to the people who serve.

Meet the team

Ashley Miller, PMHNP-BC
Ashley MillerFounder & CEO · PMHNP-BC
Dr. Yalda Safai, MD, MPH
Yalda Safai, MDChief Psychiatric Officer
Mike Bumpus, MBA
Mike BumpusSVP, Partnerships

Our confidentiality promise

What's said to OTR stays off the record

We operate as an independent third party. Your participation, and anything you share, is kept confidential and separate from your employer, your command, and your personnel file. Trust isn't a feature here. It's the whole point.

In the field

Now piloting with the Arizona Department of Corrections

OTR is being put to work where the need is greatest, inside a statewide corrections system, proving a confidential wellness model that can scale to departments and agencies nationwide.

About the pilot

Help us reach the next department

OTR is an early-stage nonprofit. Your support helps bring confidential, clinically backed wellness to more of the people who keep our communities safe.