BCP - Clinical

Athlete Mental Health

These services are in combination of both licensed clinical work and sport performance. This may include mental health concerns where athletes can receive therapy and sport psychology which may align with insurance coverage.

Injury & Rehabilitation Psychology:
Banner LLC provides support for athletes navigating injury recovery, fear of re-injury, identity disruption, confidence rebuilding, motivation during rehabilitation, and psychological readiness to return to sport.

Disordered Eating, Body Image, and Performance Recovery:

The demands of sport can intensify struggles related to identity, perfectionism, body image, and eating behaviors particularly in appearance-based, weight-class, endurance, or high-performance environments. Some or all categories may be presented and is based on a case by case basis. Specialized services can address:

Disordered eating patterns and unhealthy relationships with food
Body image distress and appearance-related anxiety
Exercise guilt, compulsive training, or over-identification with performance
Perfectionism, shame, and self-worth tied to body or results
Recovery-oriented support for athletes navigating eating disorder treatment alongside competitive goals
Building a healthier, sustainable relationship with nutrition, training, body image, and self-concept

Burnout prevention, Mental wellbeing, and More-Than-An-Athlete Identity:

High-performing athletes are often praised for relentless discipline, sacrifice, and commitment, but sustained performance without psychological balance can lead to burnout, emotional exhaustion, loss of enjoyment, and identity rupture. At Banner LLC, services support athletes in developing a healthier relationship with sport one where excellence and wellbeing can coexist.

Areas of focus include:

Burnout prevention and recovery: recognizing signs of emotional exhaustion, reduced motivation, and chronic stress before they become debilitating
Mental wellbeing support: addressing anxiety, depression, stress, sleep difficulties, emotional overwhelm, and life transitions that impact performance and quality of life
Healthy identity development: helping athletes cultivate a sense of self that extends beyond performance outcomes, scholarships, rankings, or athletic roles
Transition support: navigating retirement from sport, injury-related career disruption, graduation, transfers, or changing competitive roles
Values clarification: identifying what matters most beyond wins and losses, helping athletes build meaning, direction, and purpose
Life balance and sustainability: learning how to pursue excellence while maintaining relationships, academics/career goals, and personal fulfillment
Self-worth beyond achievement: strengthening identity and confidence that are not solely dependent on performance, appearance, or external validation

Grief and Loss

As someone who has experienced the death of his father due to cancer, losing a client to suicide, and multiple other experiences with death and grief, this is a specific area I am very passionate in.

Grief

Grief is not limited to death. It can follow any experience that changes your sense of connection, safety, belonging, or the future you expected. Therapy offers space to process the emotional impact of loss while finding ways to carry what matters forward.

Death and Bereavement

The death of someone important can bring sadness, anger, guilt, numbness, confusion, or a loss of direction. Therapy can help you make room for these experiences, understand how grief is affecting your life, and develop an ongoing connection to the person you lost without feeling pressured to “move on.”

Relationship and Marriage Loss

The ending or disruption of a relationship can involve grieving not only the person, but also shared routines, identity, trust, and imagined plans for the future. Therapy can help you process the loss, understand relational patterns, rebuild your sense of self, and determine what moving forward means for you.

Church Hurt and Spiritual Loss

Painful experiences within a church or faith community can affect your sense of trust, belonging, identity, and relationship with God. Therapy provides space to name that harm honestly and explore its impact without minimizing your experience or prescribing what your faith should look like.

A Loved One’s Incarceration

When someone you love is incarcerated, grief may be complicated by separation, uncertainty, stigma, changing roles, and mixed emotions. Therapy can help you process the loss and disruption, establish healthy boundaries, and navigate relationships while caring for your own emotional well-being.

Suicide Loss

Losing someone to suicide can bring profound grief alongside unanswered questions, guilt, anger, confusion, or isolation. Therapy offers survivors of suicide loss a compassionate place to process the circumstances of the death, work through difficult emotions, and grieve without judgment or expectation.

Life Transition

Even positive or expected transitions can disrupt your sense of stability. Therapy can help you understand what a change means for your identity, relationships, and future while developing ways to respond with greater clarity and flexibility.

College Adjustment

Beginning college can bring academic pressure, loneliness, changing relationships, new responsibilities, and questions about identity or direction. Therapy can support students as they adjust to greater independence, manage expectations, build meaningful connections, and find a sustainable way forward.

Career Changes

Starting a job, changing careers, experiencing workplace stress, or questioning your professional direction can affect confidence, purpose, and well-being. Therapy can help you clarify what matters, cope with uncertainty, and make decisions that reflect both your needs and values.

Changes Within a Couple

Relationships naturally shift through changing roles, expectations, careers, family demands, and individual growth. Individual therapy can help you understand your experience within these changes, communicate more effectively, establish boundaries, and make thoughtful decisions about the relationship.

Breakups and Separation

A breakup can unsettle your daily life, future plans, social connections, and sense of identity. Therapy provides space to grieve the relationship, understand what happened, reconnect with yourself, and approach the next chapter with greater intention.

Retirement

Retirement may bring freedom and opportunity, but it can also create uncertainty about purpose, structure, relationships, and identity. Therapy can help you process the meaning of this transition and build a fulfilling life that is not defined solely by your former role or productivity.

Identity Development

Identity development involves understanding who you are beyond roles, accomplishments, expectations, and the approval of others. Therapy can help you examine the patterns shaping your life, reconnect with your values, and develop a more grounded and integrated sense of self.

Perfectionism and High Achievement

Perfectionism can create the sense that your worth depends on success, productivity, or avoiding mistakes. Therapy can help you understand what drives these expectations, develop a healthier relationship with achievement, and pursue excellence without sacrificing your well-being.

Obsessive and Compulsive Patterns

Intrusive thoughts, persistent doubt, rigid standards, or repetitive behaviors can make it difficult to feel settled or trust yourself. Therapy can help you better understand these patterns, respond to distress in healthier ways, and reduce the control that fear and uncertainty have over your decisions.

Feeling Stuck

You may know that something needs to change without knowing what that change should be or how to begin. Therapy offers space to identify what is keeping you stuck, clarify your priorities, and take manageable steps toward a life that feels more purposeful and aligned.

Personal Identity Exploration

Questions about who you are may emerge during transitions, relationship changes, loss, or periods when familiar roles no longer fit. Therapy can help you explore your values, needs, relationships, and sense of purpose without forcing you toward a predetermined answer.

Christian Identity and Faith Integration

Faith may be a source of meaning and strength while also involving uncertainty, conflict, or difficult questions. For clients who desire it, therapy can thoughtfully incorporate Christian beliefs while providing room to explore faith, doubt, values, and identity with honesty. Faith integration is always optional and guided by the client’s own beliefs and goals while talking to a therapist who has a biblical foundation.