Therapy for Athletes navigating Injuries + Setbacks
For clients in Longmont + Boulder and across Colorado
The injury stopped your body.
But your mind kept running
Injuries and setbacks don't just sideline you physically. This is the space to work through what they do to everything else.
You can handle the physical rehab.
Nobody told you about the rest of it.
The timeline the doctor gave you made sense on paper. What it didn't account for was the identity crisis. The watching your training partners post their long runs while you're on the couch. The creeping anxiety about whether you'll come back the same. The way injury has a way of making everything you thought was stable suddenly feel uncertain.
Setbacks aren't just physical. And you shouldn't have to white-knuckle the mental side on your own.
You don't know who you are when you can't train
Return-to-sport feels exciting and terrifying at the same time
You're angry — at your body, at the timing, at the unfairness of it
The fear of re-injury is already changing how you move and think
You've lost confidence you didn't realize was tied to your sport
You're cleared physically but not ready in a way you can't fully explain
"Being cleared to return isn't the same as feeling ready. Both matter. We'll work on both."
Returning to sport isn't just a physical milestone. It's a mental and emotional one. Here's what the work looks like.
GRIEVE WHAT YOU’VE LOST
Injury involves real loss — of a race, a season, a version of yourself you were building. We'll make space for that instead of rushing past it. Grief that's skipped doesn't disappear — it resurfaces.
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SEPARATE IDENTITY FROM PERFORMANCE
When sport is how you know yourself, injury is destabilizing on a level that goes beyond physical pain. We'll build a broader, more resilient sense of identity — one that can hold a hard season without breaking.
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WORK THROUGH FEAR OF REINJURY
Fear doesn't stay in your head — it changes how you move. Using ACT and exposure-based approaches, we'll help you return to your sport with genuine confidence, not just grit-your-teeth bravado.
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BUILD THE MENTAL FOUNDATION FOR RETURN
Readiness isn't just physical clearance. We'll develop the psychological skills — focus, self-compassion, acceptance of uncertainty — that make return sustainable and not just survival.
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Recovery has a mental side too.
A free 15-minute consultation — whether you're deep in the rehab process or just cleared to return and not quite feeling it yet. Let's talk.
