Hi,

I’m Alexia Inman! I’m a 26-year-old retired (aka I ran out of eligibility) collegiate beach volleyball player. I spent four years competing at UC Berkeley before transferring to Santa Clara University for my fifth year, where I earned my Master’s in Marketing. I’ve since graduated with a second Master’s in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara, with an MFT licensure track, and I’m now pursuing a third degree, this time in Sport Psychology, at Miami University. I’m working toward CMPC certification and preparing for candidacy to pursue a doctorate in Clinical Psychology.

When I first stepped into collegiate athletics in 2017, I thought I’d play volleyball until the day I died. No seriously, I used to joke with my coaches that I’d be fine taking my last breath on the court mid-match (the dramatics have calmed a bit since then). However, it wasn’t until the forced shut down brought on by Covid in 2020 that I realized where my true passions lie, and that is as an advocate for mental health.

I’ve dealt with mental health challenges since childhood, but they took a much darker turn once I began my journey into college as a student athlete. Within my first semester at Cal, I was googling things like, “Why is my sport making me miserable?” and “Is college athletics making me suicidal?” The resources I needed didn’t exist or weren’t accessible. Campus services were stretched thin, and therapy outside of school was too expensive.  Unfortunately, this was a trend that continued for all of my five years of college. Issues that started out my freshman year as preventable, morphed and twisted into full on mental illnesses that I work to heal from daily. Constantly surrounded by teammates and people who loved me and going through some of the peak moments of my life, I had never felt more alone.

And it’s for this reason I created AIM. No athlete should feel like they're suffering in silence or searching for answers that feel impossible to find. Because there are answers, and there are solutions. The fix might not come overnight, but together we can take the first step toward clarity, stability, and strength. Through both my personal experiences and my work with clients, I’ve seen how deeply mental health struggles can affect athletes, on and off the field. I know what it’s like to feel overwhelmed, lost, and unsupported in a system that often prioritizes performance over well-being. That’s why AIM exists: to be a space where athletes feel truly seen, heard, and cared for because no one should have to navigate those battles alone.

I don’t believe our challenges define us, but I do believe they can shape us into powerful helpers. I’ve done the work personally and professionally to be someone who understands and who can help others navigate similar paths. My promise is to make every athlete I work with feel seen, heard, and supported in finding their way back to stability and strength, both on and off the field.

I want to help create a world where we don’t see those news headlines pop up anymore. I want to help create a world where all athletes feel seen, heard and safe regardless of their mental state. So that’s what I’m AIMing to help create. I want to get boots on the ground now by offering services at a rate vastly lower than most performance consultants, life coaches and therapists offer in order to help as many struggling athletes as I possibly can. So come join me, whether that’s working with me one on one, by listening to a podcast episode, or reading a newsletter as we AIM to create a new world of college athletics where everyone feels safe, always.

Love ya, mean it!