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About the Course
This presentation, led by Dr. Leah Kaylor, provides essential education on suicide awareness and prevention. It dispels common myths, highlights key risk factors, and teaches participants how to recognize behavioral, emotional, and verbal warning signs. Attendees will learn practical strategies for approaching conversations about suicide, offering support, and taking action to ensure safety. The session also covers crisis intervention basics, available resources, and the importance of creating a supportive environment to reduce suicide risk and foster mental well-being.
Your Instructor
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Leah Kaylor
Dr. Leah Kaylor is a licensed clinical psychologist for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She specializes in trauma and sleep.
Dr. Kaylor completed her residency at the Memphis VA Medical Center, where she worked in the sleep clinic helping veterans with sleep hygiene, nightmares, insomnia, and CPAP adherence. While in Memphis, Dr. Kaylor also provided psychoeducation, crisis response, and psychological debriefings to firefighters, law enforcement, and first responders.
Since joining the FBI, Dr. Kaylor provides therapy to agents and professional staff who have been exposed to traumatic experiences while on the job, such as shootings, graphic crime scenes, and viewing job-related child sexual abuse images (CSAM). Her go-to treatment approaches for processing traumatic events include EMDR (Eye-movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and Brainspotting.