About
Advisory Board Member
Dr. Palmer proudly serves on the WTTA Advisory Board.
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Walk The Talk America believes that by improving the quality and availability of mental health resources to gun owners we can reduce suicide by firearm. We are paving the way by educating mental health professionals about gun culture and breaking negative stigmas around mental health for gun owners. We are saving lives.
Who leads 2A Mental Health?
Dr. DB has spent more than 20 years in the mental health field, as a licensed clinician, university professor, healthcare executive, forensic consultant, mental health examiner, and adventure therapy guide. He served in the Army National Guard as an Infantryman, volunteers with his local Search & Rescue, and is a very active member of the tactical firearms, wilderness expedition, and ultra-marathon paddling worlds. He is a husband, father of five, and an active member of his local church. Dr. DB is relentless in his goal to bring mental health coaching and whole life resiliency to "the rest of us, without fear of rights restrictions, with faith and freedom as cornerstone to our business".
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Dr. Palmer is a consummate team builder and incurable optimist. In addition to being the founder of 2A Mental Health Coaching, his career spans more than two decades of work in two diverse areas, with equal parts adventure leadership/wilderness guide as well as an impressive background within both executive healthcare systems and university counseling centers and clinical practices. He is a former first responder, US Army National Guard Infantry soldier, police department crisis intervention on-call team member and after-hours emergency mental health responder for Seattle area hospitals, and he has significant experience as a director of mental health and clinician for the Department of Corrections in three states. Dr. Palmer has extensive experience facilitating Intensive Outpatient Programs for First Responders, spanning many years of engagement with first responders of all stripes.
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As a clinician, Dr. Palmer is a leader in the field, as both a university professor and in corporate healthcare, within tribal healthcare and Infant, Child, & Adolescent Development. As a university professor and healthcare executive, Dr. Palmer was project director for numerous federal grants as a partner with Johns Hopkins University, Indian Health Services, SAMHSA, Administration for Native Americans, and others totaling over $6 million in funding for Child & Youth Development programs that he developed. Dr. Palmer has taught extensively in the university system in outdoor risk management, wilderness medicine and leadership, adventure filmmaking, experiential education, and is a visiting professor within Grand Canyon University’s behavioral health program, focused on trauma, family development, and other psychology courses.
We are launching the app!
We are not just about connecting people to coaches and faith-based counselors that share similar values, we are about creating technology that will transform your life. Imagine if you had access to a mental health consultant 24/7, watch us use technology to transform your life. All you have to do is sign up and use the tools that we will show you. We're creating technology that you can use to improve nearly all aspect of your life.
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And, we're disrupting the industry. We need your help to get our app created. We all talk about the importance of mental health in the firearm industry, and now it's time to make this a reality! Click the picture and learn more about what you can do to help us get this app into reality!