ABOUT CROSSOVER COUNSELING
We've Been Where You Are
We’re not therapists who studied athletic trauma from the outside. We lived it: the injury, the identity loss, the shame, the grief of a career ending before you were ready. We built Crossover because we wish it had existed when we needed it most.
WHY CROSSOVER EXISTS
We met as graduate students – two former college athletes who had both quietly struggled through the transition out of sport and found our way, eventually, to mental health work. The more we talked about our experiences, the clearer something became.
There are almost no licensed mental health professionals who were also serious athletes. Which means most athletes in therapy spend half their energy explaining what it means to train twice a day, to build your entire identity around a team, to have your body be your most valuable asset, and then lose it. To a therapist who has never lived that, it’s information. To us, it’s memory.
We built Crossover so that athletes would never have to explain themselves first. So they could walk in the door and already be understood.
“Now that I know what I know, I wish I would’ve had it. So we built it.”
– Meagan Yates, Co-Founder
MEAGAN YATES, PHD, LPC
Soccer Player. Psychologist. Builder
Athletic Story:
Meagan played soccer, basketball, and track in high school before earning a spot on a college soccer roster. After graduation came the possibility of playing professionally abroad; a dream that felt within reach until it wasn’t. When that door closed it didn’t just end a career. It ended an identity.
“I didn’t know who I was. It ended too soon. I had been doing it all on my own and when I finally decided to stop trying I felt like a failure. The shame and grief were real, and so was the loss of my love for sports and working out. Something I had given my whole life to suddenly felt impossible to be around.”
What came next was the slow, hard work of figuring out who she was without sport. And eventually, the realization that what she had experienced wasn’t weakness. It was an unmet clinical need that the mental health field had no real answer for.
CLINICAL BACKGROUND:
Meagan holds a Bachelor’s in Psychology, a Master’s in Community and Trauma Counseling from Thomas Jefferson University, and a Doctorate in International Psychology with a concentration in trauma from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She has been practicing for nearly a decade and is certified in Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) and Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT).
Her approach is rooted in a simple belief: traditional therapy’s focus on logic and high-level thinking without understanding physiology and emotional stress leaves high-achieving athletes feeling frustrated instead of helped. Together, she and Trevor built something different.
Doctorate in Psychology · Licensed Professional Counselor · NET Level I Certified
TREVOR SASEK, MS, LPC
Football Player. Counselor. Proof of What’s Possible.
Athletic Story:
Trevor played baseball and football in high school before earning a Division I-AA college football scholarship. His career didn’t end on his terms. A knee reconstruction changed everything, and even when he was offered a path back, the physical reality of pain and limitations eventually forced a decision he wasn’t ready to make.
“I had faced that decision so many times: do I keep going or do I stop? When the body finally made the choice for me I didn’t know what was next. I didn’t enjoy my major. I didn’t find my first career satisfying. My relationship with working out changed completely. I struggled with relationships. I used going out as a way to avoid facing it all; no practice the next day, so why not.”
It was watching a close friend go through the same unexpected loss, and recognizing the pattern, that made something click. Therapy could change the direction of an athlete’s life at exactly the moment when everything feels most uncertain. Trevor went back to school, found his answer, and never looked back.
CLINICAL BACKGROUND:
Trevor holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Delaware and a Master’s in Community and Trauma Counseling from Thomas Jefferson University. He has been in practice since 2019 and is certified in Neuro Emotional Technique (NET), a Level 1 trained Internal Family Systems practitioner, and trained in Brainspotting.
His work is driven by something he experienced firsthand, that athletes shouldn’t have to spend their therapy sessions explaining what it means to be an athlete. They deserve a clinician who already knows.
Licensed Professional Counselor · NET Level I Certified · Brainspotting
We Lived It
Both of us navigated the end of athletic careers before we were ready. We know what identity loss feels like from the inside, not from a textbook.
We Speak Athlete
You won’t spend your sessions translating your experience. We already understand what it means to build your life around sport, and what it costs when that’s taken away.
We Built Something New
Crossover isn’t a traditional therapy practice with athletic messaging. It’s a fundamentally different approach to healing, built from the ground up for how athletes actually process and recover.
