How We Help
Healthy Relationships Increase Officer Resilience
Law Enforcement Officers who have a healthy and stable home life, have increased resiliency and safety in the workplace.
However, stress and training from the job can spill over and impact relationships at home AND stress and conflict at home, can spill over and impact officer safety on the job. We must break this cycle! Code4Couples® offers information, education, and tools necessary to empower departments, officers, and couples to just that.
Departments
Code4Couples ® offers customizable webinars, workshops, and retreats to departments, agencies, and other organizations, including the Hold the Line Train-the-Trainer program certification.
Couples
Empower couples to have connected and resilient relationships, by educating them on the spillover, and teach them to counter the impact.
Officers
Influence officer wellness and resilience. Code4Couples® will teach your officers how the training that keeps them safe on the job, impacts them negatively off the job, and how to mitigate its effects.
Heroes Don't Do It Alone.
Learn. Implement. Grow.
The Founder of Code4Couples®, Cyndi Doyle, is a certified and licensed therapist and LEO wife. With her educational background along with real-life experiences being “married to the job”, she brings a plethora of knowledge to share amongst her peers and shares it in various mediums. From her podcast to activity-filled workbooks and more, Code4Couples® has your SIX to help relationships get and stay on track.
How Can Code4Couples Help You?
Connection is the key. We want to be seen, heard, and known by our partner. Code4Couples® helps couples to understand the impact and spillover from the job onto the relationship and the emotional toll it takes on both of you. When you understand the “why,” you move from surviving to thriving!
- Clear Communication
- Understand the Impact of Trauma
- Fight Off Loneliness
- Increase Connection
How Can Code4Couples Help You?
Officers that are trained in mental health are better equipped to serve their communities. By understanding the warning signs (for themselves as well as others), it gives them a proactive approach rather than a reactive one. Along with being more productive, which leads to a stronger community, Code4Couples® will equip officers with practical tools and skills to be well-rounded officers.
- Proactive & Productive
- Stronger Department
- More Aware of Warning Signs
- Stronger Communities
How Can Code4Couples Help You?
Educating LEOs helps them and their support system to understand the steps necessary to protect their mental and relational health that also increases resiliency.
- Creates a stronger LEO department.
- Healthy officers make stronger communities.
- Better communication skills
- Educate, implement and grow together
The Latest from the Podcast
The Wounded Blue
When Lieutenant Randy Sutton first put on the badge in 1976, policing looked a lot different. Officers could do their jobs without the constant scrutiny of a body camera or the looming fear of public backlash. They were respected. Supported. And even though the job was always dangerous, the culture surrounding officers, both inside and outside the department, wasn’t laced with suspicion and hostility.
Fast forward to today, and that landscape has shifted dramatically. And for law enforcement families, the weight of that shift is deeply personal.
Sleep Hygiene for First Responders
Sleep can feel like a luxury in law enforcement. Between shift work, court schedules, overtime, and home responsibilities, rest often gets pushed to the bottom of the priority list.
But here’s the truth that people don’t frequently discuss. Your sleep (or lack of it) impacts EVERYTHING: your mood, your health, your safety, your marriage, and even how long you’ll be around to enjoy retirement.
Breaking Down The Armor and The Mental Health Stigma in Law Enforcement
Law enforcement teaches officers how to handle chaos, make quick decisions, and keep emotions in check to get the job done. But what happens when that same skill set that keeps officers safe on duty starts to create distance at home?
For Zachary Saenz, that emotional armor was a survival tool, something he didn’t even realize he was putting on. It helped him push through the hard calls, the trauma, and the stress of being a police officer. But over time, the same armor that protected him from the job started shutting out the person he loved most.
Undercover Junkie: When the Job Becomes the Rush
When Brent Cartwright became an undercover narcotics officer, he told his wife, Wesley, that it would be safer.
“Bad guys don’t want trouble. They just want your money and to get out of there,” he reassured her. After years of unpredictable patrol work, undercover assignments seemed like a shift toward stability, more controlled environments, fewer calls involving guns. Wesley trusted him. She believed he was making the best decision for his career and their family.
But what Brent didn’t realize at the time was that he wasn’t just doing the job, he was becoming it
Breaking the Silence: How Copline Supports Law Enforcement Officers and Their Families
In the world of law enforcement, the weight of the job extends far beyond being on duty. Officers carry the burdens of the job home, often struggling with the effects of trauma, hypervigilance, and emotional exhaustion. Yet, despite being problem-solvers for others, many find it challenging to seek help for themselves. That’s where Copline steps in, a totally confidential, genuinely non-profit, 24/7 peer support line designed exclusively for law enforcement officers, retirees, and their families.
Dumpster Fire Days: Navigating the Chaos Together in Law Enforcement Relationships
Sometimes life feels like a full-blown dumpster fire. One of those days where anything that could go wrong, DID! Then you realize your partner’s day wasn’t the same stress but also a dumpster fire. In law enforcement relationships, these “dumpster fire days” can strain even the strongest couples. When you know how to navigate it, you can tackle the chaos together instead of letting it divide you.
