Clinician-led support for student athletes

Support that arrives before the crisis.

One-to-one therapy for young athletes. Training for the coaches who see them every day. School programmes that build regulation where children already play.

Find what you need → About the Centre
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What brings you here?

Three programmes. Pick the one that sounds like you.

01  /  Parents & athletes

I'm looking for support for a young athlete

One-to-one therapy across Ontario. No referral, no diagnosis, no waiting for something to go wrong.

Athletes Corner → 02  /  Coaches & clubs

I coach athletes and want to handle it better

Practical training on what to do in the thirty seconds after a young athlete stops listening.

The Emotionally Intelligent Coach → 03  /  Schools & community

I want a programme for children in my school

Six weeks of basketball that teaches emotional regulation. We run it; your staff learn alongside.

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01Our mission

What we do

To put a calm, capable adult in reach of every young athlete having a hard moment.

We work in three places at once — the therapy room, the coaching staff, and the school gym — so support reaches children where they already are, not only where a referral eventually lands. Everything is clinician-led and trauma-informed.

Why it matters

Regulation is a skill, not a trait — and skills can be taught.

Which means the kid who falls apart after a mistake is not a problem to manage. They are a young person who has not yet been shown what to do.

Players moving the ball up the court, seen at floor level.
Support that reaches children where they already are.
The gap

The need is rising. The support is being cut.

Three numbers from Ontario's largest school board.

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Rise in violent incidents in Toronto District School Board schools, 2017–18 to 2022–23.

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Times the TDSB activated its suicide-risk protocol in 2023 alone.

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Mental health positions funded at the TDSB in 2021, then cut in 2023.

02Why we exist

The most hours. The least training.

The Centre was built by a Registered Social Worker with twenty years alongside children, youth and families — community programmes, school boards, clinical practice, and supervising support for families living with violence. That work is where the neuroscience came from: what happens to a young person under stress, and what an adult has to do to bring them back. Seen from inside youth sport, the gap was obvious. All of that training went to clinicians, who might get fifty minutes a week with a young person. It never reached the coaches who get ten hours. The Centre exists to close that gap.