Marideth Kates is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and health, life, and nutrition coach. She has been providing youth, college students, and athletes individual and group therapy for 23 years. She has a special interest in supporting high-performing high-school and college student athletes who struggle with perfectionism, performance anxiety, injuries, eating disorders, relationships, time management, overall stress, etc. In a collaborative fashion, she creates customized programming that incorporates, high-touch communication before and after sessions, encouragement and support in between sessions, flexible and convenient scheduling, fun meeting spots, and the integration of goal-oriented activity and work on therapeutic healing. Marideth values bringing laughter and joy into sessions to provide a comfortable and safe space. She has additional training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Behavioral Therapy, Strengths-Based Therapy, Family Therapy, Attachment Therapy, Group Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, etc.