Natasha P. Trujillo, Ph.D.

Counseling & Sport Psychologist, Author, Private Practice Owner

Dr. Trujillo is a licensed counseling and sport psychologist who obtained her doctorate degree from Purdue University in Counseling Psychology in 2019 where she built specialties in grief/loss, self-injury, and addressing mental health needs and access to services with collegiate athletes. During her time in collegiate athletics, Dr. Trujillo conducted individual, group, and team interventions to address concerns both in and out of sport. She provided mental health guidance and training to athletic trainers, coaches, and the broader athletics department to help coordinate care, and increase knowledge and awareness of mental health needs for student-athletes. She also worked to implement assessment materials to screen athletes for mental health concerns and worked to de-stigmatize mental health distress and increase access to services for student-athletes. This led to her taking a position as a primary therapist and the program lead for a PHP/IOP program for high performance athletes with eating disorders. While there, she worked to build a sport-informed team of professionals to treat all aspects of identity/life for elite performers with eating disorders. Now in private practice, Dr. Trujillo works with individuals, teams, and organizations providing individual and group therapy, education and consultation services and assessment and program development. She is the psychologist for the Colorado Ballet, the University of Denver Women's Basketball program, Wilhelmina Denver, and works with current and former college, professional, Olympic and Paraolympic athletes in over 40 states throughout the US.

She is also an author, having released her first book called "And She Was Never the Same Again in April of this year, focused on the nuances of grief/loss and the gains and losses of life events.

Dr. Trujillo is a member of the Collegiate Clinical/Counseling Sport Psychology Association (CCSPA), the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association’s Division 47 (Exercise & Sport Psychology), and the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC). She also sits on the advisory board for Danscend, a LA based organization focused on mental health education and resources for dancers.