When an athlete learns to train their inner game just as much as their outer one, something profound happens. During this episode, we talk about athletes and mental health, including transitioning away from athletics, by choice or other factors. Nate Guyton is the founder and Lead Clinician at Guyton Counseling Services, where he brings a unique athletics-informed perspective to athletes, first responders, high-achieving teens and professionals, offering solution-focused, trauma-responsive, and faith-friendly therapy. He shares his expertise on the mental health challenges and opportunities faced by athletes, highlighting how strength, resilience and hope can be cultivated both on and off the field. Join us as we explore the pillars of his practice, and the key nuances between hope, expectation, and possibility that inform his approach.  

Key Points From This Episode: 

• How Nate’s experience and training has shaped the way in which he delivers therapy. 
• The unnamed grief that comes with transitioning out of being a student athlete.  
• A solution-focused lens that he offers to some recurring needs among clients. 
• Reframing harmful beliefs about the past and future. 
• Common pillars of identity expansion and hope reconstruction for the next chapter. 
• Why community building is such an important pillar of his work. 
• Navigating grief and agency in therapy. 
• The Made For Victory support group that Nate initiated.  
• Supporting athletes in the long game of life through recognizing peer support and beyond. 
• The upcoming event exploring the struggle of substance abuse in former athletes. 
• Unpacking Nate’s faith-friendly approach to therapy.  
• Hope, expectation, and possibility.  
• The number one thing Nate wishes more people understood about athletes and mental health. 

Nate Guyton on LinkedIn 

Guyton Counseling Services: (281)-584-3145 

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Jennifer Myers on LinkedIn 

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