Podcast Highlight: When Mental Health Counseling Becomes Your Strength

Podcaster Clay Reichenbach hosts The Examined Athlete who’s focus is on elite athletes and how they maneuver the challenges and setbacks commonly faced by athletes.

In this episode, Clay speaks with Cali Werner. Cali is a family and behavioral therapist, author, and an elite-level marathoner. While Cali excelled on the track, she also struggled with obsessive compulsive disorder throughout her life which compelled her to dedicate her professional career to helping others with similar struggles.

Cali and Clay talk about self-confidence, marathons, success while living with anxiety, OCD and other anxiety disorders, cognitive behavioral therapy, the role fear plays, advice for family members, and Cali courageously walks through her personal journey with OCD. You’ve, got an hour? Jump into The Examined Athlete!

For support and guidance throughout your college career as an LSU student-athlete, reach out to your resources. It’s often the hardest step, but the most rewarding.

Sport Performance & Counseling:

GeauxBeWell@lsu.edu