Evolve Family Counseling and Sports Psychotherapy

04/05/2026

At Evolve FCSP one thing we guarantee is that you will be heard, and we will meet you where you’re at in your journey.

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03/24/2026

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02/16/2026

Come and say Hi to us this weekend at the LCPS Mental Health Conference at Heritage High School. We are not presenting this year so more time for engagement at the vendor’s table. We look forward to seeing you!!

01/22/2026

11/21/2025

11/16/2025

It was again a privilege to lead and sponsor another fantastic The Ryan Bartel Foundation event on Saturday. The event encouraged young boys to ‘take off the mask’ and connect for their mental health. It was an honor to have former NFL player, Marcus Smith II, as our guest speaker, inspiring the boys with his stories of success and struggle.

11/11/2025

Even the toughest players struggle off the pitch 😔

This is the raw truth from Tomáš Souček revealed in his new autobiography “Suk”👇

🗣️ ”Two years of horror. I was ashamed to talk about it for a long time. Even my parents, until I decided to write my confession, had no idea that something bad was happening. Something that bothered me so much that I thought about ending my career.”

🗣️ “Insomnia. Depression. Fear of the future. My thirteenth chamber. You don’t believe it, do you? I don’t really understand it in retrospect either. Where others won’t put their foot because they’re scared of the pain, I jump headfirst. I can’t count the scars on my body, I finish matches with my head bandaged, but this hurt my soul.”

🗣️ “At first it was only slightly annoying, but after a few months it became unbearable. I was at the bottom, I would run into every match without sleep. Every match! Can you imagine? I was afraid of failure, I was afraid of reactions, I was afraid of everything.”

Mental health is just as important as physical health. If you’re struggling, speak up. Share it. Seek support. You’re not alone, and strength comes from acknowledging the fight inside as much as the fight on the pitch. ❤️

10/13/2025

Jude Bellingham has opened up on his mental health:

“With the development of social media and technology, there’s more ways to attack someone, to make them feel down – and I think there’s still a stigma around talking about mental health.

“I know there’s been times where I’ve felt vulnerable, doubted myself and needed someone to talk to – and, instead, I’ve tried to keep up this macho athlete image of, ‘I don’t need anyone’.

“The truth is that I do, everyone does. And you’ll feel a lot better from talking about your feelings and emotions.”

09/17/2025

Well-being and mental health care for sports participants and competitors can start with...

-Psychologically Safe Environments: where the thoughts, feelings, experiences and personalities of its participants are considered when striving to understand behaviour (and when considering every policy, every practice, and every process).

“Who is the person and why do they behave in this way...and how can we best behave and interact with this person.”

-An attitude that every person counts: if they’re here, then we care!

-Psychological safety: giving participants a voice in policy, practice, and process...and where participants are given a safe space to express vulnerability (while appreciating individual differences in attitude towards such safety)

-Motivational climate: leaning towards a mastery orientation (a focus on developmental and performance tasks), while appreciating individual differences in motivational patterns, from internal (feeding intrinsic rewards) to external (feeding extrinsic rewards).

-Safe uncertainty (thanks Dr Suzanne Brown): providing safety with the above approaches, while providing an environment that stretches (a balance between stretch and support).

-Coach-athlete relationships that are close, committed, co-operative, and co-orientated (see work of Professor Sophia Jowett)

-Optimal coaching engagement: a range of coaching practices from free play through deliberate practice through conditioned activities

-Coach with strong teaching skills to enhance learning: a strong knowledge of cognitive architecture of the brain (working memory and long term memory) helping players to enjoy the process of learning

-Teaching that encompasses decision-making: a strong knowledge of decision-making models

-Comprehensive player development plans: what, how, why...providing players with greater certainty as to where they are with their game

-Mental skills frameworks for all...shared!

-Leadership and teamship development on and off the pitch (court): simple, practical ideas that give players the opportunity to experience leadership and develop both task and social cohesion

-Incorporation of positive psychology practices including gratitude, optimism etc where possible

Mental health and well-being in a sports setting starts with helping players have an adaptive, flexible, and positive relationship with engagement, development and performance (that isn’t to suggest that it is highly recommended that clubs with resources offer access to appropriately trained clinical professionals for mental health education and intervention, but it is to say that coach practice and coach environment matter!)

It’s so important that our biggest sporting organisations/clubs sit with complexity, and strive to understand the dynamic sporting environment their participants are engaged in (and avoid making isolated and arbitrary decisions around their mental health strategies)

Performance, development, mental health, and well-being are heavily integrated

09/17/2025

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