In Their Own Words...Collin & Allison Vetor
I’m a police officer with the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department, and I’m a nurse at Baptist Health Floyd. I’ve been a nurse for 9 years, and you’ve been a cop for 8 and a half. We just celebrated our 13th anniversary. We’ve been together for 15 years. We have two daughters—Payton, who’s six, and Riley, who’s four.
Personal Counseling Services has been really great for us. They were really there when we needed it. Finding the right therapist through them just totally changed our life for the better. My work actually provides a counseling service for the officers. And originally, it was kind of one of those things where it was, yeah, okay, well, that’s for somebody else. But then as time went on and the job and everything else… and there was one incident where I watched a young girl jump from a bridge, and that was kind of my “Okay, this is cutting a little bit deeper.”
We both had a pretty low point. We just kind of were at the stage where we were like roommates, surviving. We started seeing Joanie with Personal Counseling Services, and that totally changed the trajectory of our life. We really worked on ourselves as individuals, and when you start to love yourself, then we worked on each other, and then that just trickles into every relationship you have. You’re a better friend, you’re a better daughter, you’re a better parent, you’re a better partner. I’m grateful to them 100%.
Even after the first session, I could see—wow, it would hit me like an epiphany. If I just try this, let’s see what happens. And I would go home after a session, we would talk about it, and I would do it. And just, like she said, that small incremental change, but it has such a broad-reaching effect on our relationship as a whole.
Anyone that knows me in real life, I will tell you, I love therapy. I’m in therapy. Everyone should go to therapy. It just… there’s just nothing bad that comes from it. I don’t think you… you just, you only learn tools to help you in life. We still have our things, but we’ve learned how to communicate those things. We’ve learned how to get through situations.
It was really awesome that they partnered with my department to be able to bring this to us, because it’s something that was needed—not just with me, but with others. I’m very grateful that we have that, and hopefully, other people can get on board and do that for their businesses, their departments, or whatever it is they have, too.
