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Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor | Certified Mental Performance Consultant
Sport can be incredibly rewarding, and incredibly demanding. Alex helps athletes navigate both.
Alex believes athletes should not have to choose between taking care of their mental health and pursuing high performance. Her approach combines clinical counseling with practical mental performance strategies to help athletes understand themselves, navigate challenges, and perform with greater confidence and consistency.
She works with:
Supporting athletes through anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, adjustment, identity, relationships, and other mental health challenges—while recognizing the unique role sport can play in an athlete's life.
Helping athletes understand their individual responses to pressure and develop practical strategies to stay present, decisive, and effective when expectations, emotion, uncertainty, or adversity increase.
Helping athletes develop practical tools to respond to setbacks, mistakes, injuries, and change with greater composure, confidence, and adaptability—while continuing to grow through the challenges of sport.
Helping athletes navigate injury, changes in competitive level, college transitions, deselection, retirement, and the question of “Who am I beyond my sport?”
CERTIFICATIONS Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, Minnesota BBHT
Certified Mental Performance Consultant
U.S. Center for SafeSport Certified
EDUCATION M.A. in Counseling: Sport and Health – Adler University, Chicago
M.Ed. in Sport and Exercise Psychology – Northern Illinois University
Certificate in Sports Management – Northern Illinois University
B.S. in Health and Human Services – Northern Illinois University
Alex believes athletes are people first and performers second. Sport can be an incredibly meaningful and rewarding part of an athlete’s life, but it can also bring pressure, uncertainty, setbacks, injury, and identity challenges that affect mental health and overall well-being.
Her approach is collaborative, practical, and individualized. Alex integrates clinical counseling and performance psychology based on each athlete’s needs, helping them understand what is influencing their experience, develop practical strategies, and apply those skills within the realities of their sport and life.
Her approach emphasizes:
Alex currently works with the USA Hockey Women’s and PWHL Minnesota Frost as a mental health therapist and mental performance coach, supporting athletes within high-performance environments as they navigate both the demands of elite competition and the broader challenges that come with being a high-level athlete.
Previously, Alex served as Premier’s Director of Youth Sport & Outreach, where she developed and facilitated mental health and mental performance programming for athletes, coaches, parents, and teams. She also worked as the sole Athletic Counselor at a Division I university in Chicago, overseeing mental health and sport performance services for 15 men’s and women’s teams through individual counseling, team workshops, and consultation.
Alex’s own experience as an athlete has significantly shaped her approach to this work. A three-sport high school athlete, she competed in volleyball, basketball, and softball before continuing her softball career at the Division I level at Northern Illinois University. A career-ending injury during college shifted her professional path and sparked her interest in helping athletes navigate the psychological side of sport.
She later pursued graduate training in sport and exercise psychology and counseling, while continuing to work directly with athletes as a high school coach, travel softball coach, and private hitting and fielding instructor.
That combination of clinical training, sport psychology education, coaching experience, and lived experience as an athlete allows Alex to understand sport from multiple perspectives—and to meet athletes where they are.
Alex presents to athletes, coaches, parents, teams, and organizations on topics at the intersection of mental health, performance, and high-performance culture. Her presentations focus on practical strategies that can be applied in sport and beyond, including:
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