Today’s guest is Sarah Fritsche, a therapist, athlete and future doctor of psychology! With her doctoral research she is giving back to the athletic community by building awareness around the mental side of the female athlete’s injury recovery. Having been a part of this category she questions the system and knows there is information lacking. I was grateful to learn all about what she is doing in pursuit of merging the mental and physical fields of recovery for this population. In addition, we cover a top-down view of some of the most effective therapy models and which ones might be used in certain client situations. Sarah takes a humanistic approach to her sessions with clients which means they lead in whatever direction they need. I share my own experiences with you and Sarah, and relate them to our conversation about what long and short term therapy looks like. Read the rest of my takeaways from today’s episode of Sets and Reps: the podcast below!
A lot of listening at a young age led to a therapist’s career
Learn different styles of therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy: an action-based approach for short term outcomes
Greg’s experiences with therapy
Online therapy
Debunking Misconceptions of Therapy
Increasing client “buy-in” to therapy coping skills
How to avoid playing the “therapy role” in professions outside of that scope
Fitness and physical activity for self care
Resources missing for athletes on the mental health side of injury recovery
Sarah’s doctoral research: The psychological effects of injury in female collegiate athletes
Fill out Sarah's online survey to be a part of the study! Specific criteria required!
Identity factors in highschool vs. college female athletes
Sarah’s instagram has all kinds of positivity in the form of encouraging posts that cover some of the major mental health struggles you may be going through as well as some actionable tools you can take to make some sense of it all
https://www.instagram.com/therapist_bae3/
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