Rebekah Roulier, LMHC, is a nonprofit executive leader and licensed mental health clinician who focuses on driving innovation in the global and local mental health professional communities. She serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Doc Wayne Youth Services, a nonprofit whose goal is to re-imagine therapy through the lens of sport. As a former NCAA Division 1 student-athlete and women’s college soccer coach, Ms. Roulier discovered her passion for the performance arena early on in life. Those experiences contributed to her awareness of the prevalence of mental illness symptoms in athletes, and led her to seek out professional training, earning both an EdM and CAGS in Counseling with a sub-concentration in Sports Psychology from Boston University. In 2018, the City of Boston recognized her dedication to the city’s youth, naming her winner of the Mayor Martin J. Walsh Youth Advocate Award. This award was followed by Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education and Human Development naming Ms. Roulier their inaugural Young Alumni Award winner in 2019. Also in 2019, Ms Roulier was selected as an Upswell Fellow by The Barr Foundation. Additionally, Doc Wayne was selected as a winner of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Sport Award in 2015, receiving national recognition for being an “influential leader and model for others making communities healthier through sport.” Doc Wayne also received international recognition through the 2016 Beyond Sport, Sport for Health Award for their development of a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) informed sports-based group therapy curriculum, called Creating Champions. Ms. Roulier is also an alumna of Boston University’s Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership program in the Questrom School of Business. She is a frequent public speaker and guest blogger, providing burgeoning insight on mental health, continuously working towards decreasing stigma and increasing accessibility for all. She credits her success to her incredible mentors, nonprofit and academic colleagues, and her family including her two children. [email protected] @RLCRoulier
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