The Athlete Everyone Sees Is Only Part of the Story.

You train, compete, get evaluated, make mistakes, deal with expectations, and keep trying to get better. But what happens when the pressure follows you home—or what’s happening outside of sport starts following you into competition?

Maybe one mistake changes the rest of your game. You lose your temper after a bad call. You shut down when a coach gets on you. You play tight because you’re afraid of messing up. Or you can’t stop thinking about what happened long after the game is over.

And sometimes, you’re performing just fine—but struggling somewhere else entirely.

Sometimes sport is the problem. Sometimes it’s where the problem shows up. And sometimes it has very little to do with why you’re coming to therapy.

I provide therapy for athletes who want a place to work through what’s happening both in and outside of sport—with someone who understands the environment they compete in.

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Your Game Is Only Part of the Story.

Being an athlete can become a big part of how you see yourself. Your performance matters. Your teammates matter. What your coach thinks matters. Your goals matter.

But there’s a lot more happening around all of it.

Anxiety, confidence, anger, relationships, family, identity, school, self-worth, injury, pain, expectations, depression, trauma, and experiences outside of sport can all affect how you feel and respond.

What you carry with you can show up in how you compete.

That doesn’t mean every struggle is secretly caused by something deeper. It means we don’t assume that what’s happening on the surface tells us the whole story.

We get curious about it.

You Train Your Game. What About Everything Behind It?

Athletes spend countless hours developing their bodies and their skills. When something goes wrong, the answer is often to practice more, prepare more, work harder, or find another way to improve.

Sometimes that’s exactly what you need.

But if the same reaction keeps happening—or anxiety, anger, fear, self-doubt, relationships, painful experiences, or patterns outside of sport are affecting you—another drill or mental-performance strategy may not address what’s actually happening.

Therapy gives us a different place to work.

The goal isn’t just to help you handle the next game better. It’s to understand why certain moments affect you the way they do and work with what may be underneath them.

And what we work on may improve how you function in sport, but that isn’t the only goal.

You’re an athlete. You’re also more than your performance.

Therapy That Goes Beyond Talking About It

You might already know you need to calm down after a mistake. You might know you’re putting too much pressure on yourself. You may understand that your coach’s reaction shouldn’t bother you as much as it does.

Knowing that doesn’t necessarily stop the reaction when it happens.

I primarily use Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT®), an experiential approach to psychotherapy that allows us to work with emotional and physiological responses as they occur—not only talk about them afterward.

ETT can also help bring emotions, experiences, associations, or patterns into awareness that weren’t obvious beforehand. That means you don’t need to walk into therapy already knowing exactly why something is happening.

We can investigate rather than assume, work with what emerges, and process experiences that may be influencing how you feel, respond, relate, and function—both as an athlete and outside of sport.

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A Therapist Who Understands the Environment

Before becoming a therapist, I spent nearly two decades working in strength and conditioning and human performance. I also grew up playing competitive hockey through college, so I understand the environment athletes live in—the training, competition, coaches, injuries, expectations, identity, pressure, and constant evaluation that can come with it.

That background matters because I don’t have to learn the athlete’s world before we can start talking about what’s happening within it.

But therapy isn’t another performance session.

We may talk about your sport. We may talk about your family, relationships, identity, anxiety, experiences, emotions, injury, school, or something that has nothing to do with athletics.

The athlete is where we may start. You are who we’re actually working with.

There’s More to Performance Than What Happens in the Game.

The goal isn’t to never get angry, anxious, disappointed, afraid, or frustrated. And it isn’t to turn you into someone who doesn’t care about winning or performing well.

It’s to give you more capacity and range in how you experience and respond to what happens—to understand what’s affecting you, process what needs attention, and have more choice in what happens next.

That can matter when the game is on the line.

It can matter when your coach is disappointed in you.

And it can matter when you take the jersey off and go home.

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