Dr. Sara Metz received her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology and is a licensed psychologist in the state of Colorado. For the past 12 years, Dr. Metz has specialized in public safety psychology and has provided psychological support services to emergency responders (police, fire, EMS, dispatch, healthcare workers, etc.) and their families. She and her staff routinely provide counseling and training services, respond to critical incidents, and support agencies working to build wellness programs for their employees. In 2016, she was the honored recipient of the APA Division 18 Eileen Gupton Award for Early Career Contributions in Police and Public Safety Psychology. In 2017, Dr. Metz became a founding Board Member of the Colorado Fallen Hero Foundation.
In 2017 she also opened her own firm, Code-4 Counseling, LLC. Code-4 Counseling, LLC, has grown quickly over the past four years and now serves agencies around the state of Colorado. Dr. Metz has also been an invited speaker across the country. In 2018, she was invited to Washington DC to provide stress management training to the Department of Justice, Public Affairs Unit.
In 2019, Dr. Metz partnered with Colorado State University-Global, the first and only 100% online regionally accredited state university in the nation, to develop a fully specialized master’s in counseling program focused on caring for emergency responders, military personnel, and their families. As the program manager of The Master of Science in Military and Emergency Responder Psychology program, the first and only program of its kind, Dr. Metz has been responsible for helping to build each individual course from the ground up and is thrilled to see more than 90 students, who wish to serve military and responder cultures, enroll since September 2020.
Dr. Metz recently accepted an invitation from Colorado State University and CSU-Global to serve as the CSU Global faculty representative on the Colorado State University Board of Governors. In 2020, she was also asked to join the Executive Board of FirstNet AT&T’s Wellness Committee. Dr. Metz remains dedicated to innovation and serving as a proactive force for change in support of bringing culturally competent clinical services to responders across the country.
