Individual Therapy
I offer individual therapy for current and former athletes, along with adults seeking support through life's challenges and transitions.
This isn’t about building a tougher mindset…
As a former Division I athlete and former Division I coach, I bring both lived experience and clinical expertise to the therapy room. I understand firsthand how deeply sport culture shapes identity, coping, and self-worth.
As therapist, I’ll help you go beyond the traditional “just think more positively” approach that often gets applied in sport and high-performance environments. For many people, that kind of mindset work isn’t enough on its own, and for a lot of the clients I work with, it never fully addressed what was actually going on underneath.
I specialize in working with former athletes and athletes, but you do not need to have a sports background to work with me.
Many of the people I work with are high-achieving individuals who are used to pushing through and holding everything together often at the expense of their internal experience. On the outside you look like you have it together. But internally, your mind won’t shut off, you feel exhausted from constant self criticism and your emotions feel overwhelming or easier to avoid altogether.
Athletes:
For athletes, the demands of sport extend far beyond physical performance. In our work together, we’ll go beyond your athlete identity and sport to help you understand what’s happening beneath the surface. This isn’t just about helping you “perform” better, it’s about supporting your overall mental health and wellbeing so you can thrive both in and beyond sport.
What you might be navigating:
Constant stress, anxiety, overthinking or feeling on edge
The pressure to perform and never feeling “good enough”
Performance anxiety, fear of failure, or difficulty trusting your body under pressure
Difficulty regulating emotions, panic attacks, or post-trauma stress responses
Injury, rehab, or fear around return to play
Burnout or emotional exhaustion
Depression or feeling disconnected/flat
I provide individual therapy for:
Former Athletes:
Many former athletes have spent years putting their head down, being highly disciplined, overriding their body, and performing at a high level. In our work together, we’ll go beyond just helping you “cope” so you can address the root causes of what you’re carrying and how sport culture may be influencing your mind, body, and relationship to self long after sport is done.
What you might be navigating:
Emotional suppression or feeling disconnected from emotions altogether
Perfectionism, a loud inner critic, and never feeling “good enough”
Feeling stuck in a constant state of pressure or stress
Anxiety, panic attacks, or trauma-related stress responses
Chronic burnout, injury, pain, or medical experiences carrying emotional weight
Transitioning out of sport, loss of identity, or grief
Adults:
You don't need to be an athlete to work with me. Many of my clients are high-achieving individuals who have spent years pushing through difficult experiences and are ready to understand themselves more deeply. In our work together, we’ll go beyond the surface-level “coping” to explore what’s actually driving the patterns that impact your well being.
What you might be navigating:
Feeling overwhelmed by life transitions, responsibilities and the need to be “perfect”
Burnout, emotional exhaustion, or feeling like you’re running on empty
Chronic anxiety, stress and hypervigilience
Depression, low mood, or feeling disconnected, numb, or flat
Complex family dynamics, relationship stress and grief
Difficulty regulating emotions or navigating the impact of traumatic experiences
I’m a former athlete and coach who understands the impact of sport culture. Here is what therapy with me is like…
My style of therapy is trauma-informed, relational, and attuned to both mind and body. I integrate somatic modalities, mindfulness, attachment-focused work, expressive approaches and an Internal Family Systems (IFS) informed lens to support change that is felt, not just understood.
With both clinical training and experience in elite sport environments, I view mental health through a cultural and systems lens, recognizing that your experiences are shaped by more than individual psychology.
In our work together, we slow things down enough to notice what’s happening beneath the surface: your body’s signals, emotional responses, and long-standing protective patterns that once helped you succeed but may now be contributing to anxiety, burnout, or disconnection.
Sessions are collaborative and experiential. The goal is not only insight, but building a greater sense of internal safety so you can reconnect with yourself in a more grounded way, while also developing practical tools that support resilience in sport, work, and everyday life.
My session fee is $190 per 50 minute session:
I know how important it is to find the right therapist and someone who understands your experience. For many former athletes and athletes finding someone who understands the impact of sport culture is important for a supportive therapy process.
I offer a free 15-minute consultation call for potential clients. This is a no-pressure conversation where we talk about what's going on, what you're looking for, and whether working together is the right fit.
You can ask questions and get a feel for how I work with individuals and if it’s not a good fit, I’ll help you find someone who is.
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I currently am taking clients who live in PA and MD (NJ license coming soon in addition to other states)
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Description tI’m an out-of-network provider, which means I don’t bill insurance directly. Some insurance policies provide out of network benefits. Some clients choose to work with a company called Thrizer that helps with out of network billing.
If you’d like to go this route, I’ll provide you with a monthly superbill (a special receipt you can submit to your insurance company). It includes all the information they typically need to process your claim.
Before getting started, I recommend calling your insurance provider and asking:
Do I have out-of-network mental health benefits?
Is there a deductible I need to meet first?
What percentage of the session fee is reimbursed?
How do I submit superbills for reimbursement?
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There isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer to this. The length of therapy depends on a variety of factors, including your goals, your current challenges, the impact of past experiences, and what you’re hoping to gain support with.
Some people come to therapy for support through a specific life transition or challenge and find that a shorter-term focus is enough. Others are looking to work more deeply on long-standing patterns that have been impacting their life in multiple ways.
For many people I work with, therapy isn’t about “fixing” something as quickly as possible. It’s about building trust and connection, and creating space to understand, process, and work with deeper patterns so that meaningful change becomes possible over time.
Rather than setting a fixed timeline, we’ll check in regularly about what’s shifting and whether therapy is still feeling helpful for you. The pace and length of the work are something we decide together.
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I do offer sliding scale but spots are limited. I currently do not have any sliding scale spots open.
Clinical Experience:
I hold a Master’s in Clinical Social Work (MSW) from the University of Denver and am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).
My clinical training includes advanced trauma treatment certification (Level I and II), along with experience working in higher levels of care including Partial Hospitalization (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient (IOP) settings.
I have additional advanced training in complex trauma and trauma-informed care, along with somatic and experiential approaches including Polyvagal-informed practice, mindfulness-based interventions, attachment-focused work, and other body-based modalities.
Alongside my clinical work, I have over seven years of experience working in elite sport and performance environments. I’m also a certified mindfulness meditation teacher, breathwork coach, and 200-hour registered yoga teacher, which informs my integrative, mind-body approach to therapy.
Licensure:
MD: 29239
PA: 141077