{"id":544298,"date":"2026-01-26T15:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/544298\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T15:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:06:14","slug":"longtime-san-antonio-firefighter-becomes-licensed-counselor-to-help-his-peers-with-substance-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/544298\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime San Antonio firefighter becomes licensed counselor to help his peers with substance use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-Bexar-Co-2-300x169.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-711001\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO: A San Antonio firefighter is now the center of a pilot program that allows him to help his fellow brothers and sisters dealing with substance misuse. His addition to the counseling team offers a professional therapist who also understands the trauma firefighters go through. Chris Raymond has worked for the San Antonio Fire Department for 22 years, spending the last 15 on the technical rescue team.<\/p>\n<p>His job in the department just shifted again, this time to the counseling team for a brand-new pilot program. \u201cAs far as we can tell, the research we\u2019ve done, it is the first of its kind, the only one in the nation. So right now, we\u2019re kind of on the cutting edge of things,\u201d Raymond said.<\/p>\n<p>He said it\u2019s not only the first to add a licensed chemical dependency counselor to a fire department team but also one that is a firefighter himself. \u201cHaving a firefighter occupy the position of a clinician is unique. I don\u2019t sit in the seat and think, \u2018I wonder what that\u2019s like.\u2019 I\u2019ve lived it, and in many cases, I\u2019ve lived it with them,\u201d Raymond said.<\/p>\n<p>KSAT-TV ABC 12 San Antonio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: A San Antonio firefighter is now the center of a pilot program that allows him to help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":544299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-544298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115962025547091521","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}