danscend advisory board member

Natasha Trujillo

Dr. Trujillo, Ph.D, is a licensed counseling and sport psychologist who obtained her doctorate degree from Purdue University in Counseling Psychology in 2019.

During and post-graduate school, she spent several years in college athletic departments where she conducted individual, group, and team interventions to address concerns both in and out of sport. She provided mental health guidance and training to athletic trainers, coaches, and the broader athletics department. From there, she became a primary therapist and the program lead for a PHP/IOP program for high performance athletes with eating disorders at a treatment facility in Denver, CO. She built a sport-informed team of professionals to treat all aspects of identity/life for elite performers with eating disorders. She had the opportunity to refine and build athlete-specific group curriculum, provide education and consultation services throughout the country to those in athletics communities, and engage with professionals in athletics, psychiatry, dietetics, family therapy, physical therapy, and medicine across all levels of care to provide comprehensive and collaborative services. 

In 2022, she made the jump to private practice where she works with individuals and consults with teams and administrations for a variety of organizations across all sport domains and levels. She focuses primarily on clinical issues pertaining to grief/loss, eating disorders, trauma, perfectionism, identity development, and performance psychology. She is currently the company psychologist for the Colorado Ballet, where she is working to implement mental health screenings, protocols, individual and group therapy services, education, and training for dancers and staff. 
She is a member of the Big Sky Sport Psychology Group, the Collegiate Clinical/Counseling Sport Psychology Association (CCSPA), and the American Psychological Association’s Division 47 (Exercise & Sport Psychology).
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