RYANNE STELLINGWERF, MS, LCPC

TRAUMA-INFORMED COACH FOR FEMALE FIRST RESPONDERS

Ryanne Stellingwerf is a licensed psychotherapist and trauma-informed coach based in Montana, serving female first responders, military women, and veterans nationwide. She is the founder of Discover Solutions and the creator of the Armor & Grace program — a six-week skill-building program built exclusively for high-performing women in law enforcement, fire, EMS, dispatch, corrections, and the military who are still good at their jobs and quietly losing ground everywhere else.

Her work sits at the intersection of clinical depth and field experience. She completed most of her Master's degree while working in Iraq and Afghanistan as a civilian military contractor —an experience that shaped both her understanding of what sustained high-alert does to a person and her conviction that women in high-stress roles deserve support before they reach crisis, not after.

SPECIALIZATION

Ryanne specializes in conditioned vigilance—the trained, survival-based alertness that persists off-shift and erodes health, relationships, and quality of life. Through Armor & Grace, she teaches the skills that professional training never includes: how to shift out of high-alert mode, how to recover fully between shifts, and how to retrain the neural pathways that keep high-performing women stuck in a single operating mode long after the job demands it.

Her approach is skills-based and practical. She works with women who are functioning and want to function better — building capability, not cataloguing what went wrong.