ABOUT CROSSOVER COUNSELING
We've Been Where You Are
"We’re not clinicians who studied the athletic experience 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
Crossover Counseling was founded in 2022 by Meagan Yates, PhD, LPC, and Trevor Sasek, MS, LPC, because of what they both were noticing as a gap in health treatment: athletes keep getting sent back to the same conversation-based approaches for problems that live in the body, not just the mind.
An injury is “healed” on an imaging scan. A concussion cleared a return-to-play protocol. But the body doesn’t always listen; it keeps bracing, guarding, and running the same stress program it needed to get you through the original event. That gap between “cleared” and “actually okay” is where we work.
“Now that I know what I know, I wish I would’ve had it. So we built it.”
– Meagan Yates, Co-Founder
WHAT WE DO DIFFERENTLY
We don't think of what we do as talk therapy. Using body-based techniques, like the Neuro Emotional Technique (NET), and muscle-testing biofeedback, we work directly with your physiology; identifying and resolving the structural patterns and hidden stress networks your body has been unable to extinguish, often long after the original injury or event.
It's precise, hands-on, somatic work, not a conversation about your thoughts. With our background in chronic stress, complex trauma, and mental health, we have been able to blend our specialized neurological and psychological training with physiological tools to integrate emotional, mental and physical health into one, like your body was designed to do.
Inherent Wisdom & Dignity
Every person who sits down with us has a unique history they carry around in their system, and we start by trusting it.
We don’t override what your physiology is telling us; we follow it, because the body has its own capacity to guide its own resolution when it’s given the right tools.
Mind-Body Synergy
We don’t accept a split between physical and emotional health, and we don’t ask you to accept it either.
The dialogue between the two is the work; every session actively supports that connection instead of treating them as separate problems handled by separate providers.
Empowering Care
Our job isn’t to make you dependent on us. We want you better and where you want to be.
It’s to offer you the most effective, efficient, natural tools available so you can take an active role in your own optimized health; in the room and long after you leave it.
Integrative Collaboration
Recovery rarely happens in one provider’s office.
We work multidisciplinarily as a matter of course, coordinating directly with physical therapists, chiropractors, team trainers, orthopedic specialists, and sports psychologists so the nervous system work we do supports and is supported by the rest of your care team.
MEAGAN YATES, PHD, LPC
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
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 · Certified in Brainspotting
