Brendan Carr - Assistant Director of Mental Health and Performance Psychology - Wrestling Support Staff

Brendan Carr

Title:
Assistant Director of Mental Health and Performance Psychology
Phone:
919-966-3655

Dr. Brendan Carr joined the UNC staff in the summer of 2019. He serves as a sport psychologist within the UNC Department of Sports Medicine, providing both performance enhancement and mental health services to UNC student-athletes. He works collaboratively with department staff, teams, and individual student-athletes to provide developmentally-appropriate and culturally-sensitive care for student-athletes to ameliorate distress and promote human flourishing in-line with the athletic department’s central mission to “Educate and Inspire through Athletics.”

Carr earned his undergraduate degree in psychology and exercise & sport science from UNC. He completed a master’s degree in sport & exercise psychology from the UNC Greensboro as well as his master’s degree in professional community counseling and doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Georgia.

Prior to coming to UNC, Carr spent three years at Penn State as a staff psychologist and the primary mental health provider to Penn State Intercollegiate Athletics.

Carr is a licensed psychologist, a Certified Mental Performance Consultant through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP), and a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA). He is a member of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Sport Psychology Registry, external consultant for the Center for Collegiate Mental Health (CCMH) and a member of the advisory board for the Collegiate Clinical/Counseling Sport Psychology Association (CCSPA).