Beach National Team IC Coach
Alex Cushing is a licensed clinical and sport psychologist and a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC®) whose career sits at the intersection of elite performance and clinical mental health. He is licensed to practice in California, Colorado and Oregon. He is the psychological services provider for the Beach National Team as an independent contractor.
Since 2022, Dr. Cushing has served as a psychological services povider for the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), acting as a primary psychological point of contact for Team USA athletes and national governing bodies. His work spans mental performance optimization, clinical care, crisis intervention and mental health emergency planning. He served as welfare officer for the Team USA delegation at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Dr. Cushing also works with Red Bull’s Athletic Performance Center in Santa Monica, delivering individualized mental performance and clinical interventions for Red Bull–sponsored athletes as part of an interdisciplinary team spanning strength & conditioning, nutrition, performance science and physical therapy. In addition, he is an instructor at the SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles Conservatory, co-leading a course on managing performance stress for creative professionals.
Dr. Cushing is the founder of Reframe Performance & Psychological Services (RePPS), a concierge private practice he has run since 2022, offering clinical therapy and sport psychology services to athletes and medical professionals alike, along with CMPC supervision for clinicians pursuing certification. From 2019 to 2022, he served as Pepperdine University’s inaugural sport psychologist and coordinator of athletics counseling services, building the university’s clinical and sport psychology program within Pepperdine athletics. He completed his APA-accredited predoctoral internship at the University of Memphis.
Dr. Cushing earned his Psy.D. in clinical psychology (APA-accredited) and M.A. in sport psychology from John F. Kennedy University, and a B.A. in American studies from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a member of an NCAA National Championship–winning team. He is a professional member of APA Divisions 17 and 47, the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP), and the Clinical/Counseling Sport Psychology Association (CCSPA). He also sits on AASP’s Web Presence Committee, CCSPA’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging Committee, and the USOPC Sports Medicine DEIB Working Group.