Carinthia Bank, LCSW, MSW, MSc
Sport Performance Clinician & Social Worker — Pennsylvania
Open for telehealth referrals in Pennsylvania.
Carinthia is a licensed clinical social worker in Pennsylvania. She has specialization in sport and performance psychology. She is also a former professional ballet dancer. She works with individuals, including athletes and performers, on such issues as balance in a life of rigorous performance, identity clarification and development, and navigating a variety of challenges and stuck points. She has experience treating anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. In her work, she draws from cognitive-behavioral, existential, and mindfulness approaches. She has a specific line of work centered around athlete and performing artist career transitions.
She completed her undergraduate education at Princeton University. During that time, she founded a student group for artists, athletes, and performers interested in managing challenges related to their end-of-career transitions. She then earned a master’s in social work at the University of Pennsylvania. Following this, she was awarded a Fulbright grant to study sport psychology at the University of Stirling in Scotland, where she completed a dissertation that explored athletes’ experiences of social support during transitions out of sport.
Carinthia has 11 years of experience in the world of classical ballet. She trained at the Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington, D.C. and worked as a professional ballet dancer with the Donbass Opera and Ballet Theater/Donetsk Ballet of Ukraine.
Carinthia is a member of the Alliance of Social Workers in Sports (ASWIS) and the Pennsylvania Society for Clinical Social Work (PSCSW).