Services

I currently offer online counseling services for athletes, coaches, those struggling with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and those going through life transitions. Services are currently available through telehealth for CA and HI residents.

Counseling and mental health for athletes

Mental health concerns among athletes continue to be on the rise in recent years.

Are you an athlete that feels stuck in your game or has a drive to improve your current mental well-being?  Are you stressed with the pressure to preform as an athlete, a student, an employee, or any other role you play? Are you trying to come back from an injury?

Maybe you are deciding what to do after your sport is over?  Or who you will even be without your sport? 

Maybe you are struggling with poor body image, over exercising habits, or disordered eating?

Athletes are typically high preforming and feel the pressure to be the best at everything they do. This stress can take a toll on our mental health, relationships, and work. As an athlete, we spend so much of our lives going to practice, games, and team events that often it is difficult to imagine ourselves without the game. 

It is important that your therapist understands the culture behind being an athlete. The norms, the standards, the expectations are all important in the context of both elite and everyday athletes. I have worked with semi-professional, professional, Olympic, college, and high school athletes in order to improve their mental health.  Together we will look at the issues that are presenting themselves in your life and focus on where you want to get to. We will discuss what your goals are going forward and how to meet them. We will also discuss anxiety, depression, stress or any other things that have gotten in the way of you achieving your goals.

Eating Disorder Therapy

Are you obsessing over negative thoughts and judgments towards your body?  Are you stuck in habits around restricting, binging, or purging?  Do meal prepping, calorie counting, and thoughts around the newest diet interfere in your daily life? Many of these things can directly impact the level of joy in our lives.

In this therapy, we focus on the pressure that men and women face every day to change their bodies in order to fit into our society’s unrealistic standards.  I work with individuals struggling with negative body image, disordered eating, over-exercise, exercise avoidance, and other issues related to changing one’s body shape or size. 

In our sessions, we will strive to get you back a joyful life worth living. We will discuss re-connecting with your intuition around movement, food, and the relationship you have with your body. We will discuss the importance and difficulties that come with identity shifts that you may have in your new habits, new body, or even new relationships while in recovery. Together we will focus on what you want your life in recovery to look like and how we can get you there.

Therapy for coaches

In the last few years, a growing amount of focus has been on the mental health and well-being of coaches. Coaches, especially those who coach full time as their primary job, report experiencing a high degree of pressures that have led them to feel overwhelmed with stress and mental exhaustion. Uniquely, and often under reported and under discussed, coaches struggle with high rates of mental health difficulties. According to the most recent NCAA survey on mental health, 40% of head coaches and 36% of assistant coaches feel mentally exhausted. Similarly, up to 37% of head coaches feel overwhelmed by all that they had to do.

With, at times, minimal income for the high amounts of work, focus, stress, and travel that is put into coaching, it is no surprise that there are complimentary stressors that follow. Financial worries, concerns of job security, success on and off the field, feeling as though they are not “doing enough”, are just a few issues that coaches report struggling with. In addition, the stress from their jobs tends to affect home life, relationships, parenting, work-life balance, and self care.

If you are a coach, or someone who plays a similar role in your career, and are struggling with any sort of mental health issues, I urge you to reach out for support.

6 week prep for transition to college

Even for the most elite and talented student athletes, the jump from high school to college is a large one. Often times, athletes are prepared for one aspect (maybe hard work or fitness), but are surprised by many others (such as intensity, expectations of coaches and teammates, academics, social pressures) that they may face. In many scenarios, student athletes struggle transitioning during their first semester or year, rather than thriving during this time.

In this 6 week prep, which is typically done in Spring or Summer, we will discuss general expectations and scenarios of competing in college. We will discuss life away from home, living and making choices independently, the role of a student athlete, time management, self care and sleep, as well as the intensity of play at the collegiate level.

If your teen is getting ready to make this leap from high school to college, I encourage you to take this 6 week course in College Prep.

Therapy for anxiety and depression

Beyond athletics, I work with many individuals who work in environments that are typically high demanding, chaotic, and highly pressured. Nurses, EMT’s, doctors, veterinarians, health care workers, therapists and other individuals who have been faced with trauma, stress, fear, and a variety of other emotions over the course of their days.

In this therapy, we focus on self care and realistic scenarios where you can find motivation to keep on going. We focus on getting out of the deep hole of depression, or out of the place of fear and isolation. We focus on bringing connection back in your life; as well as whatever other goals you may have for your short or long term.

Therapy Through Life Transitions

Have you recently switched schools, moved to a new place, or left a relationship?  Do you notice yourself needing to shed your old identity and find who you want to be? Are you struggling with letting go of the old and risking what the new you may be like?

Life transitions often hit us harder than we expected.  Change can be difficult, and often we find ourselves coping with negative behaviors.  We experience depression, sadness, fear, anxiety, and loneliness. 

I work with those searching for a new identity.  Whether it is breaking free from a past identity around an illness or a relationship, we look at how we can form a new identity related to our values and goals.   I work with those going through a transitional period of their lives.  This often includes starting a new relationship, a new job, a new school, or a new team.  Change can be hard, and often we must shed our old identity in order to start fresh.  This can be a daunting experience to go through alone.