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For weeks after the Capitol siege, a psychologist worked with D.C. police to process their trauma.
Dr. Beverly Anderson led daily debriefings so officers could put words to what they saw and felt.
Regular visits with trusted, independent mental health providers should be as routine as seeing the dentist, experts say.
As a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Washington, D.C. s lead police psychologist briefly considered dashing to the scene. After all, it s something Dr. Beverly Anderson has done countless times before.
Instead, she spent much of the afternoon at the bedsides of dozens of officers wounded in the melee, then drove around town with some of the police union guys, just showing her face to remind everybody that she s there and she s an asset, one D.C. officer recalled.