A clinician and an engineer, building the thing neither could build alone.
Trust earned through a mutual exchange of vulnerability.
Dr. Steven Nicholas has spent two decades embedded with the people who run toward what everyone else runs from. He has watched the same pattern repeat across the Air National Guard, wildland fire crews, structure fire departments, and police agencies: world-class programs sitting unused, because using them meant admitting something a person in that job cannot afford to admit.
What worked instead was never the program. It was the crew — someone noticing, and saying something, early. The problem was that noticing depends on being in the same room, and shift work guarantees you are not.
Ubeus is that noticing, made possible across shifts, stations, and time zones. It is a 60-second daily habit that makes visible what a tight crew used to know instinctively: who needs a call today.
Social networks gave us performance. Social wellness gives us connection.
Company facts
- Ubeus, Inc. — S-Corporation
- Registered small business — UEI
UTNGSDAG6911 - Live in the Apple App Store and Google Play
- Paying state-government customer at approximately 3,000 seats
- Fully executed corporate infrastructure: EIN, state registration, bylaws, shareholder agreements, trademark, and work-for-hire agreements
You will work with the founders.
Ubeus is deliberately small. The people who designed the clinical model and built the platform are the same people who run agency deployments and answer the phone.
Doctorate in Counseling & Educational Psychology. Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. National instructor with the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF) and EMDR-trained.
More than 20 years embedded with the Nevada Air National Guard, U.S. Wildland Fire Service and U.S. Forest Service wildland fire crews, structure fire departments, and law enforcement agencies — delivering resilience training and critical incident stress management to warrior-servant populations.
Creator of Living Ideation, the build model that Ubeus operationalizes into a daily practice.
Doctorate holder and career software engineer and entrepreneur. Previously co-founded StackIQ, a San Diego enterprise infrastructure software company, and led it through a successful exit.
At Ubeus he leads product engineering, cloud architecture, and government engagement — and is the primary point of contact for agencies, contracting officers, and proposal teams.
Make it normal to say how you are actually doing.
Reach the unreachable population
Success is not downloads. It is a corrections officer or a battalion chief using a wellness tool for the first time in a career of avoiding them.
Move intervention earlier
Every week a crew notices sooner is a week before a crisis becomes an incident, an attrition, or a funeral.
Leave nothing stranded
When a grant ends or a contract lapses, the crew and the habit survive. Members keep a free account and keep checking in on each other.