Nick was a police officer for 25 years with the Anitoch Police Department in California. For 17 of those years he worked night shift in a town that was well known for its high crime rate, drugs and gang violence. Nick was exposed surely to the worst possible critical incident possible when he had to shoot his own brother who was threatening to kill his parents. He was responsible for establishing Anitoch PD's first ever peer support unit. Nick is now the peer support director at the West Coast Post Trauma Retreat that provides a one week residential program for first responders struggling with PTSD.