Individual Counseling

You and your therapist will work one-on-one toward your goals, helping you identify barriers to performance and create a plan to give you the tools and skills you need to conquer these obstacles.

You will also have the opportunity to dig deep into your fundamental subconscious and unconscious programming, including beliefs you carry that make or break your performance, dismantling negative and limiting beliefs, and installing new positive and empowered beliefs.

This will create a solid foundation so you can succeed in maintaining confidence, clarity, and composure so you have less to worry about managing in real time, already having the fortitude from the inside out that you carry with you into every situation.

Family Counseling

Sometimes our relationships with those closest to us get a little messy. Family counseling can help athletes and parents or other loved ones learn together in a safe environment how to communicate emotions and collaborate around shared goals. Goals will be based on what the athlete needs, and helping everyone learn skills to get moving in the same direction.

Vickie has 15 years experience working with youth and their families to resolve conflict and create healthier family dynamics and home environment so all can thrive. This includes time working with at-risk and incarcerated youth to help everyone in their close circle support them as they work to rehabilitate and improve their circumstances to create a meaningful and fulfilling life with healthy habits and solid positive supports.

Learn more about specific interventions used to help you meet your goals in the “Therapeutic Strategies” section below.

Group Counseling

Group Therapy is a great option for people to connect around shared challenges to feel less alone in what they are going through. This is a safe space where the therapist leads the group in sharing about and processing their experiences, helping develop skills and tools to cope and overcome difficulties. And the support of fellow group members is a very powerful therapeutic element.

Vickie has 15 years experience developing and running therapy groups and enjoys being a part of helping people connect and find community in their journey to healing and improving their skills. She uses a creative and eclectic approach, also including group members in developing the unique culture of each group.

Groups are still in development. Future groups may include:

Support Groups for Parents of Young Athletes

Support and Process Groups for Athletes navigating such challenges as: Stress/Pressure/Anxiety, Injury Recovery, Self-Doubt and Lack of Support, Improving Discipline, Habits and Routine.

Therapeutic Interventions

  • CBT - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

    CBT offers skills and tools to help you become more aware of your own automatic assumptions and false perceptions in distressing situations. These assumptions and perceptions are based on core beliefs. CBT also teaches you to be more in control and intentional in choosing your responses when triggered for improved outcomes in these challenging situations. than CBT also gets to the root of “Core Beliefs” and helps you examine where these beliefs came from and develop healthier and more adaptive beliefs to hold, instead. CBT is one of the more time-tested modalities included in treatment.

    Learn more about CBT here: Beck Institute - Understanding CBT

  • DBT - Dialectical Behavior Therapy

    DBT works with four key domains: mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness. It focuses on helping learn how to step back and acknowledge emotions and thoughts as fleeting experiences, and are not “who you are.” It also offers tools and skills to improve communication and honor your own needs.

    DBT teaches skills to withstand discomfort and have “wise mind” to select our response to what is happening. “Dialectical” means to hold two opposing truths at once, for example “I am behind” AND “I can still win this thing.”

    Learn more about DBT: Psych Today - DBT

  • EMDR

    EMDR is an incredibly powerful form of treatment that directly works to uproot negative and limiting core beliefs and create new adaptive and empowered core beliefs. Beliefs are considered the programming that runs constantly in our subconscious mind, dictating our thoughts, reactions to triggered emotions, and ability to perform and engage in healthy relationships. EMDR is not like talk-therapy, it uses a strict protocol including somatic elements of eye-movement or tactile stimulation to help the brain stay focused here and now, while also attending to the negative core beliefs related to trauma from the past, or fear of future events (ex. competition and performance anxiety)

    Learn more about EMDR here: EMDRIA.com

  • IFS - Internal Family Systems

    IFS is a newer model involving “parts work” to help break down the elements creating inner tension in a person’s life. The theory is that we have several different parts of ourselves that have different needs and serve different purposes for us, often wanting different things and clashing with one another when our system is not in harmony.

    For example, one part of you may want to rest and take some time off, feeling burnt out, but another part might be afraid of disappointing people and want to force us to move on, creating inner tension between these parts. IFS helps us to examine these parts, help them heal and become more functional and cooperative in their roles.

    Learn more about IFS: Psych Today - IFS

  • MBSR

    MBSR was developed by Jon Kabat Zinn at UMass Medical Center to help those with acute and chronic pain experience relief from stress and pain through a mindfulness and meditation based 8-week program. Brain scans have shown amazing changes in brain structure and circuitry, where pathways linked to executive function, focus, and emotion regulation were strengthened through consistent mindfulness practice.

    Adapted to a therapy setting, MBSR tools and skills are offered to help build these essential pathways and improve how you choose to cope, be present and able to control responses to triggers, and become more intentional with your daily choices.

    Learn more about MBSR: Very Well Mind - MBSR

  • MI - Motivational Interviewing

    MI is a helpful approach to building intrinsic or internal motivation. If a person feels stuck, or in-between the comfort zone and growth zone, there are factors on both sides pulling at them which makes it hard to know which way to go. When we feel external pressures to achieve or accomplish a goal, we might ask “but what is in it for me?”

    Motivational Interviewing helps you weigh pros and cons and helps you align with your own values and decide what is best for YOU. When you are coming from a place of internal desire and have your “why” figured out, you will be more likely to take action whole-heartedly toward growth and change in pursuit of your goal.

    Learn more about MI: Psych Today - MI