Youth mental health and sport

Vickie Simos certainly has great things to say about helping youth with mental health challenges and how her unique approach incorporating martial art is making a positive difference. She discusses youth mental health in sport with Ken Willner on this episode of Off the Pitch, a podcast discussing the topic of youth development in sport.
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Off the Pitch discusses youth development in sport, hosted by Ken Willner, a Youth Sport photographer with a different lens in youth sport: Founder Active Illustrated & Yellow for Yelling. Podcast “Off the Pitch with Active”. Helping organisations to keep youth in sport for life.

Vickie Simos is a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist who is also a Fourth Degree Black Belt in the Filipino martial art of Doce Pares Eskrima (stick fighting) and a Second Degree Black Belt in Anjukanpo Karate. Vickie is a Silver Medallist World Stickfighting Championships, Pan Pacific Gold Medallist for Stick Fighting, and a qualified Personal Trainer. Vickie is the founder of Thelo Active Therapy, an initiative that combines martial arts and mainstream therapy. In 2017, Vickie published her memoir called The Boxer Within where she reflects on her experiences with depression and anxiety and how martial arts helped her overcome those mental issues.