Ryan Sappington (he/him), PhD is a Licensed Psychologist and Licensed Sport Psychologist in Baltimore, MD. He works full-time at Loyola University Maryland where he serves as Coordinator of Public Health and Student-Athlete Mental Health Services. Additionally, Ryan is founder and owner of Liberated Performance Psychological Services LLC, a private practice offering individual and group psychotherapy services, sport/performance psychology counseling, and a range of consultation services for teams and organizations focused on issues of culture, leadership, conflict, and DEIB. Ryan is a former Division I soccer player, holds three master's degrees (sport psychology, work/organizational psychology, and counseling psychology), and earned his PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Maryland. His areas of interest include issues related to: liberation and social justice; student-athlete mental health and performance; men and masculinities; trauma; and grief/loss. Ryan has previously worked in five different university counseling centers, an active-duty military hospital, community mental health, and the sport psychology departments of the U.S. Naval Academy and Philadelphia Union.