Regulation Precedes Performance.
Allie Chapman is the founder of Mind Body Athletes and a mom of six athletes, from rec league beginners to competitive high school veterans.
OUR STORY
Where This Started
Allie Chapman grew up in basketball, first as a player and later from the bleachers as a parent. Those years made the gap obvious: coaches were asked to handle everything the game asked of an athlete, with almost no training for the nervous system underneath the performance.
She spent years in middle-school and group-home settings, then earned her MSW from the University of Southern California. She studied sport social work at the University of Michigan, completed MBSR through the UCSD Center for Mindfulness, trained as a yoga instructor, and studied the neurosequential model of sport. She later served as a school social worker in a Title I school.
That path is why Mind Body Athletes exists: so coaches and the programs behind them have a practical way to support the whole athlete.
kids who come out of sport still knowing who they are.
MENTAL PERFORMANCE COACH & FOUNDER, MIND BODY ATHLETES
Allie Chapman, MSW
- MSW, University of Southern California
- Sports and Social Work, University of Michigan
- MBSR through the UCSD Center for Mindfulness
- 200 hour yoga teacher training
- Trauma informed practice
- Neurosequential model of sport
- ASW #134932
- Practice under LCSW supervision through Generational Wellness
Mind Body Athletes is an educational and wellness program. It is not psychotherapy and is not offered under a clinical license.
As Featured In
- USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social WorkMSW graduate empowers young athletes through the transformative capacity of social work.
- ASWIS Symposium, Tulane UniversitySeptember 2025
