Ashley Brauer, PhD, LP, DBSM is a clinical and sport psychologist who specializes in the treatment of mental health disorders and performance concerns among athletes. Additionally, Dr. Brauer has a specialized interest in working with athletes to facilitate health behavior change, such as improving rest, rehabilitation adherence, and optimizing sleep. Dr. Brauer is a Diplomate in Behavioral Sleep Medicine by the Board of Behavioral Sleep Medicine.

Dr. Brauer obtained her MS in Sport and Exercise Psychology from Lund University in Sweden and the University of Leipzig in Germany. She earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Saint Louis University with a focus in health and performance psychology. She completed her APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship at the University of Missouri in the Health Psychology Track.

Dr. Brauer helps athletes navigate mental health and sport concerns at the outpatient level with Mind Body Endurance. She is committed to multidisciplinary care and collaborates frequently with healthcare professionals to improve quality of care.

In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Brauer maintains an active role in publishing and presenting research with a focus on athlete health and performance. She was awarded the Sleep Research Society Mentor Mentee Award to further expand her clinical and research expertise in behavioral sleep medicine. Dr. Brauer is a member of the Big Sky Sport Psychology Group, American Psychological Association, and Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine.

In addition to her clinical work and research, Dr. Brauer has been involved in figure skating for over 20 years as both an athlete and coach.

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Kate Daley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Registered Dietitian (RDN), and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS). She earned her master’s degree from the University of Denver and her undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut (UConn), where she was a member of the Cross Country and Track & Field teams. Her clinical training included specialized work treating athletes with eating disorders, serving as both a clinical mental health clinician and registered dietitian.

Throughout her career, Kate has worked across a variety of treatment settings, including hospitals, athletic departments, private practice, and higher levels of care for both eating disorders and substance use disorders.

Kate has presented at conferences and other professional settings on topics including eating disorders, Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs), Safe Exercise at Every Stage (SEES), sports nutrition, sport psychology, and mental health in the context of sport at all levels—from recreational to Olympic. She has experience working with individuals, families, and groups.

In her role as as Sports Dietitian at Mind Body Endurance, Kate works one-on-one with athletes with or without disordered eating, helping them fuel their bodies appropriately for sport and life.

She meets clients where they are, providing compassionate, individualized, and nonjudgmental care—with a touch of humor along the way.

Outside of her professional work, Kate enjoys spending time with family and friends and exploring Colorado through running and skiing.

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Dr. Jen Farrell specializes in the treatment of mental health and performance concerns in athletes and performers. Currently she is an Assistant Professor and Program Director for the Applied Sport Psychology program at UNC Greensboro (UNCG). In addition to these roles, she also provides mental health services and psychoeducational programming to student-athletes, coaches and athletics staff at UNCG.

Dr. Farrell obtained an MS in Kinesiology from the University of Illinois, a PhD in Sport and Exercise Psychology from UNCG, and her MSW from Washington University in St. Louis. Her comprehensive education and training in clinical social work and sport psychology enables her to provide the best possible assistance to clients in need of mental health and mental performance services. Dr. Farrell is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), listed in the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee Mental Health Registry and is a nationally Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology.

Dr. Farrell works at the outpatient level with Mind Body Endurance to help clients optimize mental health, performance and enjoyment in their sport. She also has extensive experience working with athletes in recovery and rehabilitation from injuries and in treating athletes with eating disorders and body image concerns.

Dr. Farrell is a member of the Big Sky Sport Psychology Group, Collegiate Clinical/Counseling Sport Psychology Association (CCSPA), Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP), National Association of Social Workers (NASW), and the Alliance for Social Workers in Sport (ASWIS).

In addition to her clinical and performance work, Dr. Farrell is an avid runner and former collegiate soccer player.

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Bianca Latham is a dedicated mental performance consultant specializing in sports and performance psychology. She focuses on enhancing athletes’ mindsets and overall performance across various age groups and sports. Bianca’s goal is to empower individuals by providing them with tools and strategies to transform their mindsets and elevate their performance.

Leveraging her experience as a Division 1 basketball player, a 7-year professional athlete, and a coach at both the high school and college levels, Bianca uses her background and expertise in sport psychology to elevate the mindset of athletes to perform at a high level. Having been a high performer herself, she understands the unique challenges and pressures athletes face. This personal insight, combined with her professional knowledge, enables her to connect deeply with athletes, empowering them with strategies to build confidence, motivation, focus, mental resilience, and the ability to overcome setbacks.

Bianca obtained her B.S. in psychology from Southeast Missouri State and dual master’s degrees (MBA and M.A. in sports psychology) from John F. Kennedy University (JFKU). While at JFKU, Bianca received the JFKU Sport Psychology Ambassador Award in recognition of her scholarly excellence and dedication to the program. She is also a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) through the Association for Applied Sports Psychology (AASP) and a Certified DISC Consultant through Athlete Assessments.

Incorporating mindfulness into her practice, Bianca has received Mindfulness Sports Performance Enhancement Instructor Training through the MSPE Institute. In addition to one-on-one sessions with athletes, she presents workshops on various mental performance topics. In her free time, Bianca enjoys participating in community service activities with her sorority, trying new restaurants in the St. Louis area, and playing and coaching basketball.

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Becca is the Director of Performance Nutrition at Mind Body Endurance. Over the past 10 years Becca has specialized in the intersection of sports and eating disorders, understanding how the path to driven sometimes can become destructive without the support of professionals that get it.

Being a former collegiate athlete now youth coach and Mom to an active daughter, my career’s mission is to create a safer place in sport to see athletes thrive. This means aligning with like-minded , value-driven professionals. As the director of Performance Nutrition at MBE Becca creates a place to challenge the status quo and have ongoing peer consultation to stay evidence-informed & connected to the clients.

In addition to private practice, she has served as a consultant to the University of Missouri Kansas City Athletics, Kansas City Ballet, local colleges and previously worked with the Kansas City Chiefs. Becca and Riley have developed and presented over the US The Eating Disorder in Sport Workshop for athlete providers.

Becca is also the author of Finding your Sweet Spot- How to Avoid RED-S (Relative Energy Deficit in Sport) by Optimizing Your Energy Balance and RED-Solution mentorship program for clinicians.. She is a co-host of a podcast called PHIT for a Queen devoted to female athletes. Spring 2022 will release her workbook on transitioning out of sport at LAST with Dr. Mel Streno.

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Marcia holds the Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD) designation, specializing in the intersection of performance nutrition and REDS, disordered eating, and eating disorders.   She finds joy in helping athletes to find ways to fuel their bodies for performance rather than focusing on a certain body size. Marcia empowers clients to develop the skills necessary to navigate the world of diet culture through an anti-diet approach. She aims to provide a supportive and listening environment as clients find improved performance as well as nourishment, joy, and peace with food.

Marcia earned her DPD, Master’s in Nutrition and Health Promotion and Certificate in Sports Nutrition from Simmons College in Boston, MA.

Marcia is a collegiate 5-time All-American swimmer. Nutrition has been a passion since her time as a college athlete and while watching her kids navigate NCAA Division I athletics.  Marcia has been working with athletes for the past 10 years with the last four years as the Director of Sports Nutrition at the University of New Hampshire.

During her free time, you will find her spending time with family and enjoying hiking and the outdoors in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

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Riley Nickols, PhD, CEDS-C is a counseling and sport psychologist who specializes in working with athletes to address mental health and sport performance concerns.

Dr. Nickols obtained an MS in Sport Psychology from Ithaca College in addition to an MS in Counseling Psychology and a PhD in Counseling Psychology from Fordham University. He regularly speaks to athletes, coaches, and sports medicine personnel about supporting the mental health of athletes, disordered eating, and unbalanced exercise in sport. Additionally, Dr. Nickols consults with eating disorder professionals on best practices for integrating exercise during eating disorder treatment and is sensitive to the unique demands of eating disorder recovery in relation to training and competing in sport.

Currently, Dr. Nickols is the Senior Program Advisor for Athlete EDGE at EDCare in Denver, CO where specialized intensive eating disorder treatment is provided for athletes. He was previously the Director of the Victory Program, the nation’s first residential eating disorder treatment facility for athletes, from 2013-2021 at McCallum Place in St. Louis, Missouri.

Dr. Nickols is a member of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee’s (USOPC) Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) Expert Panel and is listed in the USOPC’s Mental Health Directory. He is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS) and Consultant (CEDS-C) through the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (IAEDP) and holds a certificate in the Integrated Treatment of Eating Disorders from the Contemporary Psychotherapy’s Center for the Study of Anorexia & Bulimia (CSAB) in New York, NY. He currently serves on the Clinical Advisory Council for the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA).

Dr. Nickols is currently on the steering committee for the Eating Disorders and Body Image Special Interest Group as part of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Division 38 (Society for Health Psychology) and was on the steering committee for Safe Exercise at Every Stage’s (SEES) Athlete Guidelines.

Dr. Nickols is a member of the Big Sky Sport Psychology Group, Collegiate Clinical/Counseling Sport Psychology Association (CCSPA), American Psychological Association’s Division 47 (Exercise & Sport Psychology), and the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) Eating Disorders Special Interest Group. He is also an Approved Mentor through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology.

Dr. Nickols is a licensed psychologist in California, Colorado, Iowa, Massachusetts, New York, and Missouri. Additionally, he is an approved, participating PSYPACT psychologist and can provide telehealth in the participating PSYPACT states.

In addition to competing in endurance sports for over 20 years, Dr. Nickols is a running and triathlon coach.

His proudest accomplishment is being married to his best friend and raising three adorable kids.

His proudest accomplishment is being married to his best friend and raising three adorable kids.

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Dr. Trujillo is a licensed counseling and sport psychologist who obtained her doctorate degree from Purdue University in Counseling Psychology in 2019 where she built specialties in grief/loss, self-injury, and working to address mental health needs and access with collegiate athletes. She completed her APA-accredited internship and post-doctoral study at the University of Northern Colorado where she provided individual, group, consultation, and crisis support services in both the counseling center with the general campus community and in the athletics department working with individuals, teams, coaches, and administration. She also has her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (2015) and two bachelors’ degrees (Elementary Education, Psychology; 2012) from the University of Wyoming.

During her time in collegiate athletics, Dr. Trujillo conducted individual, group, and team therapy to address concerns both in and out of sport. She provided guidance and training to athletic trainers, coaches, and the broader athletics department related to mental health concerns to help coordinate care, increase knowledge and awareness of mental health needs for current student-athletes. She often attended practices, games, and would occasionally travel with teams to provide ongoing support and observations to increase performance, cohesion, and support. She also worked to implement assessment materials to screen athletes for mental health concerns and worked to de-stigmatize mental health distress and increase access to services for student-athletes. This led to her taking a position at EDCare in 2021 as a primary therapist and the program lead for the Athlete EDGE program, a PHP/IOP program for high performance athletes with eating disorders. While there, she worked to build a sport-informed team of professionals to treat all aspects of identity/life for elite performers with eating disorders. She had the opportunity to refine and build athlete-specific group curriculum, provide education and consultation services throughout the country to those in athletics communities, and engage with professionals in athletics, psychiatry, dietetics, family therapy, physical therapy, and medicine across all levels of care to provide comprehensive and collaborative services.

Dr. Trujillo has been working in the mental health field since 2011 and has experience in in-patient facilities, intensive outpatient substance abuse programs, university counseling centers, residential treatment facilities for at-risk youth, alternative high schools, home-based therapy services, general outpatient services, and collegiate athletic settings. She was worked with people in all stages of life from ages 5 to 85. She is passionate about normalizing mental health in athletic populations and helping athletes become their best selves in and out of their sport. Dr. Trujillo is a member of the Big Sky Sport Psychology Group, the Collegiate Clinical/Counseling Sport Psychology Association (CCSPA), and the American Psychological Association’s Division 47 (Exercise & Sport Psychology).

In her spare time, she enjoys being with friends and family, being involved in any type of sport/competition, and traveling. She is an avid reader and is a MEGA Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball fan.

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Rachel Walker, Psy.D., HSP, CMPC is a counseling and sport psychologist who specializes in working with athletes to address mental health and performance concerns.

Dr. Walker earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Whitman College, her Master of Science in Performance Psychology from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and received her Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.), Counseling Psychology/Athletic Counseling from Springfield College. Dr. Walker, endearingly nicknamed “Doc Walk,” has been thinking deeply (and laughing often!) about psychology and mental performance since 1998 as an elite level alpine ski racer who experienced mental blocks, injuries, and a transition out of sport to pursue academia.

Most recently she was the Director of Psychological Health & Performance at the University of Colorado Boulder in the athletics department. Prior to that she was the Lead Sport Psychologist in the University of Delaware’s athletic department where she was the first full-time sport psychologist and created the program for the athletes. She completed post-doctoral training at Washington State University as the Outreach Coordinator and, prior to that, she completed her doctoral internship at Florida Atlantic University’s counseling center where she specialized in body image and eating concerns/disorders as well as sport psychology. She has vast experiences in training and supporting elite athletes, coaches, and teams at the individual and team level from a mental health and mental performance lens. Dr. Walker approaches mental health counseling by not just focusing on symptom reduction, but rather aspires to honor what makes each day worth living according to your beliefs, interests, values, and enriching relationships. Through humility, compassion, play, and curiosity, “Doc Walk” looks forward to supporting you or a loved one on their journey towards healing, growth, and flourishing (i.e., becoming a total badass).

Dr. Walker is a Licensed Psychologist in Colorado (LP #5077), a Registered Psychologist in British Columbia, Canada, a Health Service Psychologist with the National Register of Health Service Psychologists (#57313), and a Certified Mental Performance Consultant through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (CMPC #620). She is working toward becoming a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist through the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (IAEDP).

Dr. Walker is a member of the Canadian Sport Psychology Association (CSPA), British Columbia Psychological Association, American Psychological Association (APA), APA Division 47–Society for Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, APA Division 17–Society of Counseling Psychology, the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (IAEDP), the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, and the Collegiate Clinical/Counseling Sport Psychology Association.

Dr. Walker grew up in Whistler, BC, Canada and started skiing on Whistler Mountain at the age of 3 years-old. Being in the mountains in Colorado continues to inspire her and allows her to feel grounded.

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