Adrienne Tauses, PhD, LCSW, CCTP, is a recent graduate of the doctoral program at the University of Montana in Counselor Education & Supervision. She comes with 15+ years of clinical work to include wilderness therapy, equine psychotherapy, oncology, neuro trauma, grief and loss, and dual diagnosis treatment. She currently maintains a private practice in the community with a specialty in trauma and grief. She is a EMDR and Flash Technique certified practitioner as well as a certified clinical trauma professional. Additionally, Adrienne teaches at the master’s level in the counseling program and works with master’s students and those working towards licensure in a supervisorial role. Adrienne is committed to helping clients heal through depth psychotherapy focused on traumatic experiences from their past. 

She maintains a research interest in how traumatic experiences can impact physical injury and how psychological distress is viewed in the culture of athletics. Her interest has driven current research agendas at the University of Montana working with collegiate athletes in a mental health setting. Mental health care continues to be stigmatized in sports culture inhibiting the ability of sports practitioners to view their athlete’s entire person which includes psychosocial impacts of traumatic experiences. This presenter is interested in creating awareness around the connection of traumatic experiences, stress response system, and subsequent physical implications in athletes. The hope is that for athletes to continue performing to their ability and creating positive outcomes as well as modeling for the masses that humans are made up of more than just their physical ability and deserve to be seen and treated that way.