Therapy & Mental Performance Support for Athletes at Every Stage

You train your body. But what about your mind?

At Graceful Growth Counseling Services, we specialize in helping athletes navigate the mental and emotional side of performance, whether you're striving to break through, stuck in your head, recovering from injury, or facing the uncertainty of stepping away from your sport.

Our work is led by a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who is also a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC). This rare combination allows us to support both your mental health and your mental performance, without separating the two.

Because athletes are more than performers. You're human first.
 

Who This Is For
This service is designed for athletes who are:

• Experiencing performance anxiety, pressure, or self-doubt

• Feeling "mentally blocked," inconsistent, or stuck in their head

• Returning from injury or dealing with the fear of re-injury

• Navigating psychosomatic symptoms (pain, tension, shutdown without a clear medical cause)

• Struggling with confidence after setbacks or losses

• Feeling burnt out, unmotivated, or emotionally disconnected from their sport

• Facing a transition - starting a new level, reducing participation, or ending a competitive career

• High-performing but internally overwhelmed, perfectionistic, or exhausted

 

You don't have to be "falling apart" to get support. Many of the athletes we work with look successful on the outside while silently struggling on the inside.

 

Common Athlete Struggles We Help With
Athletes often come in saying things like:

• "I know I'm capable, but I can't access it when it matters."

• "My body is healed, but my mind isn't."

• "I overthink everything and it ruins my performance."

• "I don't know who I am without my sport."

• "I feel pressure to perform, but I'm afraid of failing - or succeeding."

 

These challenges aren't a weakness. They're a signal that your nervous system, identity, and performance are out of alignment.

 

And that's where our approach is different.

 

How Athlete Therapy with an LPC & CMPC Is Different
At Graceful Growth Counseling, we don't treat mental performance and mental health as separate silos.

 

As an LPC and CMPC, your therapist understands:

• The demands of competitive sport

• The psychology of performance, confidence, and focus

• The emotional impact of injury, identity loss, and transition

• The clinical side of anxiety, trauma, burnout, and stress

 

This means we can help you:

• Improve performance without ignoring emotional well-being

• Address anxiety or psychosomatic symptoms without pathologizing you

• Build mental skills while also processing deeper emotional patterns

 

You don't have to choose between "therapy" and "performance coaching." You get both in an integrated, ethical, and evidence-based way.

 

What We Work On Together
Your work will be tailored to you, but often includes:

• Managing performance anxiety and pressure

• Rebuilding confidence and trust in your body

• Mental skills training (focus, imagery, self-talk, emotional regulation)

• Injury recovery support and return-to-play readiness

• Addressing psychosomatic symptoms and mind-body stress responses

• Identity work beyond your sport

• Navigating transitions with clarity and self-compassion

• Creating sustainable motivation instead of burnout

 

Our goal isn't just better performance. It's a resilient, grounded performance that lasts.

A Space Where You Don't Have to Perform
Athletes are used to being evaluated, corrected, and pushed.

 

Therapy here is different.

 

This is a space where:

• You don't have to be "on"

• You don't have to prove anything

• You can be honest about fear, doubt, grief, or pressure

• You're supported as a whole person - not just an athlete

 

And from that grounded place, performance often improves naturally.

 

Why Graceful Growth Counseling

• Specialized support for athletes and high performers

• Led by an LPC + Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC)

• Trauma-informed, nervous-system-aware approach

• Honors both ambition and well-being

• Support through performance, injury, and transition

 

We believe growth doesn't have to come through force. It can come through alignment.

 

Ready to Take the Next Step?
Whether you're preparing, struggling, sidelined, or redefining your relationship with sport, you don't have to navigate it alone.

• Serving athletes through compassionate counseling

• In-person and telehealth options available

• Supportive, culturally aware, and trauma-informed care

 

Schedule an appointment today and learn how athlete-centered therapy and mental performance support can help you move forward with clarity, confidence, and resilience.

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