Kelli is a licensed clinical social worker who also has training in sport performance as a Certified Mental Performance Consultant®. Kelli is excellent at making connections and building relationships. Kelli has significant culturally responsive training.

• Kelli’s first sport exposure was playing pee-wee league baseball at the age of 8. She remembers sitting in the outfield picking blades of grass because she was bored waiting for the ball. Until she heard her name being called, more like yelled and there was a fly ball headed her way. The best ending to a story is what happened, she caught the fly ball!! She never played baseball again or softball for that matter but therein started her love for sport and competitive play.

• Kelli is a 2002 graduate of Central Michigan University and a 2007 graduate of the University of Tennessee (GO VOLS!!) where she earned her masters’ degree in social work. Kelli is the founder and owner of Thinq Health and Performance.

• Kelli has significant experience working with student-athletes, providing mental health support and performance tools. In her past lives, she’s had experience in a myriad of settings including an outdoor wilderness camp, K-12 public education as a therapist and school social worker, and in a community mental health organization throughout her professional career. In 2019, she earned an accolade called “Person of the Year” in a middle school where she was the first school social worker the school ever employed. She coached track & field for 20 years and coached in Michigan, Tennessee, and Indiana where she earned accolades for Coach of the Year in 2012.

• Kelli considers herself a plant lover.