Adolescents
Helping young people navigate emotional challenges, social pressures, stress, confidence, and important transitions while developing healthier coping strategies.
Helping individuals, families, and athletes build resilience, overcome challenges, and move forward with greater confidence.
Location: South Miami, FL · In-Person & Virtual Sessions
Schedule a ConsultationFor more than three decades, I have dedicated my career to behavioral health and helping people navigate some of life’s most challenging moments.
My experience has allowed me to work with adolescents, adults, families, and athletes facing emotional, behavioral, and performance-related challenges. Throughout that journey, I’ve learned that meaningful progress starts with understanding the whole person — not simply the problem they are experiencing.
Sports have also played an important role in my life. After 13 seasons of coaching baseball and working with athletes at different competitive levels, I developed a firsthand understanding of the pressure, expectations, setbacks, and emotional demands that come with competition.
Today, I bring these two worlds together at Awakenings Consulting, combining behavioral health experience with an understanding of competitive sports to help clients strengthen their mental and emotional well-being.
I believe effective support begins by listening and understanding what is really happening beneath the surface.
For an athlete, a loss of confidence may be connected to performance pressure, fear of failure, injury, family expectations, or challenges outside of sports. For an adolescent or adult, stress and emotional difficulties may be influenced by relationships, transitions, self-esteem, or everyday responsibilities.
Rather than using the same approach for everyone, I focus on understanding each client’s experiences, challenges, and goals.
Together, we work toward practical strategies that can strengthen resilience, improve emotional well-being, build confidence, and create meaningful progress in everyday life.
Athletes spend countless hours developing their physical abilities, but mental and emotional preparation can be just as important.
My experience in both behavioral health and competitive sports allows me to understand athletes from a broader perspective. Performance anxiety, pressure, injuries, mistakes, slumps, and fear of failure can affect not only performance but also confidence and overall well-being.
I work with athletes to better understand these challenges and develop mental strategies for managing pressure, maintaining focus, recovering from setbacks, and competing with greater confidence.
The goal goes beyond performing better. It is about developing skills and resilience that can benefit athletes in competition and throughout life.
Helping young people navigate emotional challenges, social pressures, stress, confidence, and important transitions while developing healthier coping strategies.
Supporting adults through stress, emotional challenges, personal transitions, relationships, and other circumstances that may be affecting their well-being.
Helping athletes strengthen mental performance, manage competitive pressure, build confidence, recover from setbacks, and develop greater resilience.
Providing families with guidance and practical strategies to improve communication, understand challenges, and create a stronger environment for growth and support.
Awakenings Consulting was built around a simple belief: meaningful change begins when we better understand ourselves, our challenges, and what may be preventing us from moving forward.
Whether I’m working with an athlete struggling under pressure, an adolescent navigating a difficult stage of life, an adult experiencing personal challenges, or a family looking for guidance, my goal is to provide a supportive environment where honest conversations can lead to practical solutions.
Every journey is different. My role is to help you identify what is holding you back, recognize your strengths, and develop the tools needed to move forward with greater clarity and confidence.
Whether you’re seeking behavioral health support, looking to strengthen your mental performance, or searching for guidance for your child or family, the first step can simply be a conversation.
Let’s discuss what you’re experiencing, what you hope to accomplish, and how Awakenings Consulting may be able to help.
Location: South Miami, FL · In-Person & Virtual Sessions
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