Better performance starts with a better person. That's the whole method.
Aaron Petrie
LPC-MHSP/Coach for High Performers
MY BACKGROUND
I spent nearly a decade in addiction and substance abuse treatment, work that teaches you quickly how deep the connection runs between performance, identity, and pain. I served as Clinical Director at Lotus Wellness Center in Nashville, leading a team of clinicians through complex, high stakes cases. I've worked at Nashville Treatment Solutions and helped build three companies from the ground up, so I understand the pressure of leadership and entrepreneurship from the inside, not just the therapy room.
Along the way I found my way to athletes. College competitors. International level performers. Olympians. Professionals. What I found across every level is that the mental struggles look remarkably similar regardless of how high the stage is. The anxiety, the self-doubt, the burnout, the loss of identity. These aren't signs of weakness. They're signs that something important needs attention.
HOW I WORK
I'm a certified meditation facilitator through Wild Heart Meditation in Nashville. Mindfulness and Buddhist principles around presence and non-attachment are woven into how I work, not as an add-on but as a foundation. When there's past trauma or old patterns driving current struggles, we go there. We look at it, we work to heal it, and then we bring that healing into the present so it stops running the show.
My approach brings together sports psychology, trauma-informed therapy, and evidence-based methods including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. Every session is built around you specifically, your goals, your history, your performance context. This isn't a program you follow. It's a process we build together.
WHO I WORK WITH
I work with people carrying real pressure: athletes, executives, entrepreneurs, and other high performers who've built a life around achievement and are starting to feel the cost of it. The level doesn't matter as much as the pattern. I've seen the same anxiety, self-doubt, and burnout show up in a high schooler and an Olympian.
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