Specialties
Therapy & Mental Skills for Athletes
Current, injured, and retired athletes. The performance work and the human underneath it, in the same room.
You are a person first
Athlete mental health care is essential to success in sport and to overall well-being. As a former competitive swimmer, I know the dedication, the perseverance, and the pressure that comes with chasing a goal you can measure.
I also know what it is to fall short of that goal repeatedly, and what happens to your sense of purpose when the number you built your identity around stays out of reach.
In our work together we go after both halves: the mental skills that make you better at your sport, and the life that has to hold up around it. There is room for fun, competition, discipline, success, and wellness all at once. I firmly believe that, and I have needed to believe it about myself.
Who comes in
At every stage of a career
In season and competing
Collegiate, high school from age 15, masters, and recreational athletes managing pressure while the schedule keeps moving.
Injured and rehabbing
The psychological side of being hurt: identity, fear of reinjury, and the loneliness of rehab while the team trains without you.
In transition or retired
Leaving sport, by choice or otherwise. Relief and grief usually arrive together, and nobody warns you about that.
Two halves of the same work
Skills, and what sits under them
The mental skills half
Pre-competition routines, attention and refocusing, imagery, self-talk that is honest rather than relentlessly positive, arousal regulation, and goal setting that measures process instead of only outcome.
These are trainable. They respond to practice the same way a stroke or a swing does, and they do not require you to be in crisis to be worth learning.
The therapy half
Identity that has fused with performance. Fear of failure that has quietly become fear of being worthless. Anxiety, depression, disordered eating, or trauma that a full schedule has made easy to ignore.
Because I am a licensed clinical and sport psychologist, both halves can happen with the same person, in the same hour, without a referral in between.
A note on identity
What happens when the sport stops
For a lot of athletes, sport is not something you do, it is who you are, and it has been since you were small. That makes it extraordinarily motivating and extraordinarily fragile.
Why it hits so hard
When your identity has one load-bearing wall, an injury, a bad season, or a graduation date is not a setback, it is structural. That is not weakness, it is architecture.
I retired from swimming without hitting the time I had organized my life around. I know how disorienting the quiet is afterward, and how strange it feels to grieve something you also chose to leave.
What we build instead
Not a replacement identity handed to you, but a wider base. Values that were always underneath the sport, and which survive it. In my case, it turned out the swimming had been teaching patience, consistency, and how to keep showing up while feeling like a failure. Those did not retire with me.
A successful athlete is a healthy and happy athlete, and at the end of the day, an athlete is a person first.
For athletes
Questions that come up first
One hour a week, and often less as things improve. Athletes routinely make time for physical therapy without debating it. This is the same logic applied to a mental injury.
Let us talk about your sport and your season
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