When athletes, performers & leaders need help beyond performance.
Whether you're an athlete, performer, leader, or parent, you're a person first and foremost. Nearly 50% of the population will struggle with a diagnosable mental health condition at some point. ​
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Having a trained therapist who can help high-achievers with their emotional struggles and life issues is widely recognized to be important. In fact, many NCAA and Olympic teams have access to both mental skills training and mental health therapy.
If you find yourself struggling to manage your own emotions, feel overwhelmed by your thoughts or out of control with your behaviors, it may be helpful to seek professional therapy.
The Action Potential Treatment Approach
The primary treatment approach used at Action Potential Advantage is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which is a research-supported, behaviorally-based treatment.
Understanding why you engage in certain patterns is important if it helps you move toward change, but it isn't the main focus of therapy. From an ACT perspective, your values and life-goals become your primary focus and function as a cornerstone of change. Most people don't realize when their values and life-goals are far from their daily lives, until they are weighed down by depression, anxiety, perfectionism, or burnout. Often, people know that something is wrong, but they struggle to pinpoint exactly what.
ACT can be especially helpful for athletes or performers who are experiencing emotional suffering, negative thoughts, or burnout. ACT can also help athletes and performers better understand who they are after retirement, injury or the eventual end of their participation in their high-achievement activity- a time when many struggle with identity loss. The ACT approach can help a person re-calibrate and anchor themselves in a more flexible way.
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For more information on ACT, please visit The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science website. ​
What problems can be helped with therapy?
While there is not guarantee that you will get better with therapy, there are many problems that are often helped by therapy. Therapy has the potential to help when:
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Something about you or your actions keeps you from being yourself or feeling good about life.
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You have a problem related to your emotions, behaviors or thoughts that you could control better, if you knew how.
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You can understand yourself better and make new choices.
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You are confused about your life-direction or career.
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You are having trouble sticking to your resolutions or goals.
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You are having trouble adjusting to a new situation (e.g., moving, school, work, medical condition or injury, divorce or separation).
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Grieving the death of a loved one.
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Facing identity loss or changes brought on by injury or retirement from sport or performance activities.
Group Therapy for athletes, performers, and leaders
Dr. Mae is currently taking new clients for the following groups, which are taking place at Lotus Counseling and Psychological Services. To contact her there, please leave a message at the following number:
469-240-2337 Extension 708
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Injured Athletes and Performers: Have you recently suffered an injury and are not able to participate in your sport, music, dance, or acting activity? Managing the pain, anxiety, frustration and loneliness caused by distance from your team or performance group is tough. Learn skills to help manage your emotions and pain while gaining perspectives and solidarity from the group. Optimizing your mindset after an injury can help you optimize your recovery or adapt to changes moving forward.
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Ready to learn more?
Currently, Dr. MacIntire is meeting with Therapy clients at Lotus Counseling and Psychological Services in Highland Village, TX.
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To schedule a free 15 minute call to discuss whether therapy is for you, contact Dr. MacIntire at
Lotus Counseling:
469-240-2337 ext 708
