Zen Warrior Counseling Center, LLC

12/22/2025

12/17/2025

Community policing at its finest.

12/16/2025

On this third night of Hanukkah, we are so grateful for Freehold EMS, Freehold Fire, and Monmouth County Sherrif officers and their proud support of those of all faiths.
Thank you for ensuring the safety of your residents.
Chag Sameach to all celebrating!f

12/10/2025

Share some of your favorite ways that you’ve celebrated holidays or fostered connection with loved ones while working holidays in the comments!!

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The holidays have a way of pretending they’re all twinkle lights and cocoa, but anyone working a holiday shift knows the truth: it’s more “silent night, loud radio.”

If you’re a first responder or frontline worker navigating the season on duty, consider this your unofficial permission slip to honor your humanity while you support everyone else’s.

Reward yourself with tiny rituals—sip something warm before your shift like it’s a sacred brew, take a 30-second breath between calls, notice a single string of lights as if it’s a personal message from the universe saying, “You’re doing enough.”

Missing traditions hurts, and that doesn’t make you weak—just human. But here’s the real magic: traditions are not bound to a date on a calendar. You can team up with friends, partners, and family to create celebrations that happen when you can actually be present. A “December 27th Feast of Leftovers,” a “New Year’s Eve That Happens on the 3rd,” or even a “Mid-January Cozy Movie Night Because Everyone Was Exhausted.” Meaning is portable. Connection is flexible. You get to design rituals that work for your life, not squeeze your life into rituals that don’t.

You can also build micro-moments of meaning wherever you are: a text to someone you love, a quiet laugh with a coworker, a mental toast to yourself for showing up again and again.

And when the weight of the season mixes with the weight of the work, we’re here. Zen Warrior Counseling Center supports first responders year-round, holidays included. Whether you need to talk, decompress, or build some emotional armor, you don’t have to carry it alone.

The world may not pause for your shift, but you still deserve care, connection, and a moment to breathe.s

12/08/2025

We’re Hiring! — In-Person Clinician (Matawan Location)

Pending paneling through Headway

We are looking for a dedicated, compassionate clinician to join our in-person team in Matawan. This is an opportunity to grow with a practice that values balance, authenticity, and high-quality care.

✨ Requirements & Preferences:

✅Must have experience working with first responders and veterans

❇️Experience in addiction treatment is a strong plus

❇️Trauma-specific modality training preferred (EMDR, CPT, IFS, etc.) but not required

✅Commitment to client-centered, ethical, and collaborative care

🧠 Why Join Us?

📈You grow as we grow — we support your professional development

🧘‍♂️Healthy boundaries encouraged — you set your own cap; we believe self-care prevents burnout and leads to better client outcomes

💰Compensation based on training, experience, and licensure

If you’re passionate about serving those who serve and are looking for a supportive, growth-oriented environment, we’d love to hear from you!

📬Email your resume to Info@ZenWarriorCC.com

12/05/2025

Being a first responder has its downsides…. Shift work can definitely one of them 😂

Happy Friday, Zen Warriors!

12/05/2025

🛎️ Attention brains, hearts, and heroic nervous systems running on fumes! 🛎️

Zen Warrior Counseling Center has immediate openings for new clients—yes, real-live appointments you can book right now. No waiting. No mysterious “check back in three months.” Just help, available. 🧠✨

We’re scheduling virtual sessions (pants optional, pajamas encouraged) and in-person appointments at both of our locations: our original home in Matawan, NJ, and our new second office in Fairfield, NJ, opened to better serve Northern New Jersey. Two offices. Same calm-in-the-chaos energy.

We specialize in working with first responders—the folks who run toward the danger while everyone else runs away. Police, fire, EMS, dispatchers, and those who love them: we get the stress, the burnout, the cumulative weight of the job, and the dark humor that comes with it. And yes, we work with the broader community too.

📅 Immediate appointments available
📍 In-person (Matawan & Fairfield) + virtual
📍 First responder–informed care

You don’t have to white-knuckle it alone. Reach out today and grab a spot—your nervous system deserves backup

12/04/2025

The holidays have a funny way of turning the volume all the way up—on joy, on grief, on expectations, on exhaustion.

Today happens to be Cookie Day, which means the pressure is on to feel festive and cheerful and emotionally regulated while holding a baked good.

If that feels like a lot, congratulations: you’re human. It’s not a personal failure—it’s biology, psychology, family dynamics, and about twelve kinds of social pressure piled into a single month like an overstuffed stocking (possibly full of cookies).

This season, we invite you to take care of your mental health the same way you take care of everyone else—on purpose.

That might mean setting boundaries, saying no without a speech, keeping routines where you can, or making space for emotions that don’t match the holiday brochure…. Yes, cookies can be comforting. No, they are not a replacement for rest or support (delicious though they may be).

Rest is not laziness. Support is not weakness. And needing help doesn’t mean you’ve ruined the holidays—it might actually save them.

At Zen Warrior, we’re here for the hard parts behind the holiday photos—the feelings that don’t fit neatly between the twinkle lights and baked goods. If the season feels heavy, complicated, or just plain overwhelming, you don’t have to white-knuckle your way through it. Care is available, you deserve it, and there’s room for both cookies and real support—during the holidays and beyond.

12/03/2025

In our progress to aid our first responders, our second location is open for business! We have immediate openings for virtual and in-person sessions. Come join us at our new Fairfield office!

391 Fairfield Rd, Fairfield, NJ.
Most major insurances are accepted

11/30/2025