Find Your Footing.
Therapy for dads and athletes in Durham, NC — and via telehealth.
You’ve built your life around performing well. Who are you when the performance stops?
Maybe that’s fatherhood — the moment your role, your time, and your sense of self all shifted at once, and nobody handed you a map. The version of yourself before kids isn’t gone, but he’s changing, and it can feel like you’re losing him.
Maybe it’s competition — the pressure of being evaluated on your output, your stat line, your next move, with no real space to just be a person instead of a performance.
Cedarpath Counseling works with two kinds of people who carry a lot and are rarely asked how they’re actually doing: dads, and athletes.
“You don't have to have the whole journey figured out. And you don’t have to figure it out alone.”
Find Your Path
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Fatherhood changes your identity, your relationships, your sense of time and purpose. If you’ve never had a place to put it all down and just exist for an hour, this is where you start.
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Performance anxiety, injury, identity, burnout — these are the parts of competing that never show up in the box score. If your mind needs the same training your body gets, this is where you start.
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What we work through together.
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The Gravity Shift
Fatherhood changes your identity, your relationships, your sense of time and purpose. The version of yourself before kids isn’t gone - but he is changing. Therapy helps you understand who it is you want to be.
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The History Lesson
When you become a parent, your own upbringing often comes with it — old wounds and well worn patterns are hiding around every corner. Now is the time to figure out the things you want to repeat and the things you're desperate not to. Do the work now so they don’t have to.
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The Path Forward
My job isn't to tell you how to be a dad. It's to help you get clear on what's getting in the way — and what's already working — so you can be the father you actually want to be.
Real Talk. No Fluff.
I’m Ian, a licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in Durham, North Carolina. I started Cedarpath because two groups of people are consistently underserved by traditional therapy: dads and competitive athletes. Let’s be honest, most therapists don’t speak the language of either world.
The most important part of therapy is the relationship with your therapist. I get that. I’m a dad, a husband, a son, a brother, a former competitive athlete, and an avid cyclist. My background is in Sport & Performance Psychology, and I’ve spent my career working with high performers — on the field and at home. I work with people who want real progress, and we figure it out together.
How it works
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Free Consultation
A 15–20 minute call to talk through what's going on and whether CedarPath is the right fit. No commitment, no obligation
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The First Session
We get to know each other. You share what brought you in. I start to understand your world. We talk about goals and what working together looks like.
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The Work
Weekly sessions where we go deeper. You'll notice patterns. Build tools. Get unstuck. This is the part that actually changes things.
Book your spot
Getting on my schedule is easy. Use the scheduling tool below to schedule 15 minutes with me.