Serving athletes in Charleston, South Carolina and Online Statewide
Stuck in your head?
You’ve spent years learning how to push through. Work harder. Stay focused. Shake it off. Keep going—even when things don’t feel right.
Maybe you’re struggling with confidence, performance anxiety, pressure, motivation, identity, relationships, or fear of failure in sports. Maybe you’re dealing with an injury, burnout, a mental block, or a transition that has left you questioning who you are outside of your sport.
Therapy for athletes gives you a place to slow down and understand what’s happening beneath the surface—not just what’s happening on the field, court, or in the gym.
At Carolina Counseling for Athletes, we help athletes work through the thoughts, emotions, patterns, and experiences that may be getting in the way of feeling confident, connected, and mentally well. You’ll learn practical tools to manage pressure, anxiety, and the mental side of sports while building a stronger relationship with yourself beyond your performance.
You don’t have to wait until you’re in crisis to ask for support. And you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.
Find your joy again. We're here to help.
Founder + Therapist
As a former Division I athlete, coach, sports mom, and trauma-informed therapist, I know that what you see on the field doesn’t always tell the whole story.I work with athletes who look confident on the outside but feel overwhelmed on the inside. Athletes who carry the weight of expectations, question their worth, struggle with anxiety, or feel like no matter how much they accomplish, it’s never enough.My approach goes beyond positive thinking or teaching you how to handle pressure. Together, we look beneath the surface to understand where those feelings come from, work through what's keeping you stuck, and help you feel more like yourself.
Meet Megan
Therapist + Certified Mental Performance ConsultantAs a former athlete, and lifelong competitor, I know that some of the hardest parts of being an athlete have nothing to do with the game itself.
I work with athletes who feel weighed down by expectations, struggle with confidence or anxiety, or feel like their worth is tied to how they perform. My approach combines mental performance skills with deeper therapeutic work to uncover what's beneath the surface and help athletes better understand themselves.
My style is warm, collaborative, and supportively challenging. I want athletes to have a space where they can be honest about their struggles, work through what's holding them back, and build a healthier relationship with their sport and themselves.
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Signs therapy and mental skills might be right for you.
✓ You’re constantly in your head—overthinking mistakes, decisions, or what could go wrong.
✓ You feel intense pressure to perform or worry about disappointing coaches, teammates, parents, or yourself.
✓ Your confidence changes with your performance, and one bad game, practice, or mistake can send you spiraling.
✓ You struggle with performance anxiety, fear of failure, or perfectionism.
✓ You’ve hit a mental block or the yips and can’t seem to trust yourself or perform skills you know you’re capable of.
✓ An injury has affected you mentally, whether you’re sidelined, rehabbing, or worried about getting hurt again.
✓ You feel burned out, unmotivated, or disconnected from a sport you used to love.
✓ Your emotions are following you off the field, affecting your mood, sleep, relationships, school, or everyday life.
✓ You’re struggling with your identity or self-worth outside of what you accomplish in your sport.
✓ You’re navigating a big transition—being benched, changing teams, moving to the next level, ending your career, or figuring out what comes next.
✓ You want stronger mental skills to handle pressure, regulate emotions, stay focused, and respond to adversity.
✓ You want support before things get bad. You recognize that your mental health deserves the same attention you give your physical training.
Specialized mental health and performance support for athletes in South Carolina.
Welcome to Carolina Counseling for Athletes
Carolina Counseling for Athletes was created for you—the athlete.
I started Carolina Counseling for Athletes after years of working with athletes who looked fine on the outside but felt overwhelmed, stuck, or disconnected on the inside. I saw how often mental health and performance were treated as separate things, when in reality they’re deeply connected.
At Carolina Counseling for Athletes, we treat the whole athlete. That means we talk about what’s happening in your sport and in your life—because both matter. We pride ourselves on offering versatile clinical care with warmth, energy and the ability to connect with clients authentically.
So whether you are here for yourself, or someone you love, we would love to join your team. We are ready when you are.
Megan Cannon, Owner & Therapist
Ready to Get Started?
Starting therapy can feel like a big step, especially if you’ve never worked with a therapist before. We want the process to feel simple, comfortable, and built around you—not just your sport.
1. Reach Out
We’ll start with a free 15-minute consultation call. This is your chance to ask questions, tell us a little about what’s going on, and get a feel for who we are and how we work with athletes. There’s no pressure to commit—we simply want to make sure we’re the right fit for what you need.
2. Find Your Fit
If it feels like a good match, we’ll talk through next steps, scheduling, and what you can expect from your first session. We’ll also make sure you’re connected with the therapist who best fits your age, needs, goals, and personality.
3. Get to Work
This is where we begin to understand what’s really going on beneath the surface. Maybe it’s performance pressure, confidence, anxiety, an injury, burnout, identity, relationships, or simply feeling stuck.
Therapy for athletes who want to feel like themselves again.
You're More Than What You Do In Your Sport
At Carolina Counseling for Athletes, we specialize in supporting current and former athletes who are navigating the mental and emotional demands that come with sport. Pressure to perform. Fear of failure. High expectations. Injuries. Burnout. Self-doubt. Identity. Relationships. Life transitions. Sometimes the very qualities that help you succeed as an athlete—discipline, toughness, high standards, and the ability to push through—can also make it difficult to recognize when something isn’t working anymore.
We understand that what happens in your sport doesn’t stay there. A difficult performance can affect your confidence for days. An injury can leave you questioning your body and your future. Pressure can turn something you once loved into something you dread. And when so much of your identity has been built around being an athlete, struggles in your sport can quickly begin to affect how you see yourself.
This is about more than sport psychology or improving performance.
While we help athletes develop mental skills to manage pressure, build confidence, improve focus, and respond differently to mistakes and setbacks, we also look at the person underneath the uniform. Anxiety, depression, perfectionism, trauma, relationships, identity, emotional regulation, and experiences from your past can all affect how you feel and perform today.
Our approach is relational, practical, and individualized. We aren’t here to tell you to “think positive” or simply try harder. Together, we work to understand what may be happening beneath the surface, address the patterns or experiences that are keeping you stuck, and develop tools you can actually use when pressure is high.
For some athletes, that means learning how to quiet the overthinking and trust themselves again. For others, it means processing an injury, working through a mental block, managing anxiety, recovering from burnout, navigating a transition, or separating their self-worth from their performance. And sometimes, it simply means having a place where you don’t have to perform at all.
Because you are more than your stats, your starting position, your scholarship, your last performance, or what happens next in your sport.
Being an athlete isn’t easy, and you don’t have to navigate all of it alone. Our athlete-focused therapists understand what too much pressure can do to both mental health and performance. If you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or like you’re drowning in expectations, therapy can give you a place to figure out what’s happening—and how you want to move forward.
