You know what you’re capable of. Graham helps you understand what gets in the way—and what to do about it.

You may know exactly what you want or need to do, yet find that worry, distraction, pressure, or strong emotions interfere with your ability to follow through. You might feel capable and prepared one day, then tense, hesitant, or caught in your thoughts the next. Or, you may feel overwhelmed because you know something needs to change but are not sure where to begin.

Graham Tebbit, MSc, MACP, RP (Qualifying), understands that gap through his psychotherapy work and his experience as a former NCAA Division I and professional baseball athlete. At CARESPACE Health+Wellness, Graham provides counselling in Cambridge for adolescents and adults, with particular interests in ADHD, anxiety, athletes, and high performance.

Whether you are struggling with everyday responsibilities, trying to translate preparation into performance, or finding yourself caught in patterns you want to change, therapy gives you space to understand what is happening without being judged.

Graham’s approach considers both the practical and emotional sides of change: what you want to do, what makes it difficult, and how your experiences may have shaped the way you think about yourself. Together, you can work toward greater confidence and consistency without treating every setback as another reason to be harder on yourself.

You do not have to be an athlete to benefit from Graham’s understanding of pressure, emotion, and change.

Graham supports adolescents and adults experiencing concerns such as stress, anxiety, emotional regulation difficulties, low self-confidence, perfectionism, burnout, and life transitions. His particular focus on ADHD and high performance builds on that broader foundation; your reason for seeking therapy does not need to involve sport, competition, or achievement.

By combining education in psychology, exercise science, and counselling, Graham considers how thoughts, emotions, behaviours, physical health, recovery, relationships, and your environment interact.

Difficulty concentrating, for example, might exist alongside pressure to succeed, fear of making mistakes, poor sleep, competing responsibilities, or a schedule that leaves little opportunity to recover. Rather than reducing these experiences to motivation or discipline, Graham helps you understand the larger picture and identify changes that fit your life. Your goals can include feeling more capable and present in everyday life—not simply accomplishing more.

Your sessions connect honest conversation with practical strategies.

You can expect a collaborative process focused on understanding what brought you to therapy, how it affects your life, and what you hope will become different. Graham encourages questions and honest feedback and wants you to understand the reasoning behind the work you do together rather than simply being handed strategies to follow.

Drawing on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), Graham helps you explore how thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and experiences influence one another, identify patterns that may be keeping you stuck, and practise more helpful ways of responding.

He also incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help you develop a different relationship with difficult thoughts and emotions, clarify what matters to you, and take meaningful action in the direction of your values—even when discomfort is present.

Depending on your goals, therapy may involve reflection, skill development, behavioural strategies, and practical changes that you can experiment with between sessions.

Graham’s training in psychology, counselling, exercise science, and sport informs his approach to mental health and high performance.

Graham holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Hofstra University, a Master of Science in Exercise Science from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University.

His graduate research included sport-related concussion and head impacts, providing additional context for conversations about injury, recovery, and returning to sport. His additional training includes integrating CBT with exposure and response prevention for anxiety, as well as focused education in perfectionism and sport psychology.

Graham also brings first-hand experience from competitive sport. He competed as an NCAA Division I and professional baseball athlete and has also participated in boxing, swimming, downhill skiing, cross-country running, and basketball.

His psychotherapy, mental performance work with athletes, and professional teams, including the Brantford Red Sox and Kitchener Panthers, has addressed competition preparation, focus, confidence, performance challenges, and concerns extending beyond sport. Earlier work as a baseball instructor involved collaborating with physiotherapists and strength and conditioning coaches to support athletic development.

These experiences help Graham understand competitive environments while recognizing that your needs do not end when the game, training session, performance, school day, or workday is over.

When ADHD gets in the way, knowing what to do and being able to do it can feel like two different things.

You may put off something important, lose track of time, struggle to maintain routines, or become absorbed in one responsibility while others pile up. You might repeatedly run into the same difficulties despite genuinely knowing what you are supposed to do.

Being told to “just focus,” “try harder,” or “be more disciplined” can become frustrating—especially when you are already putting in significant effort.

Graham helps you make sense of these experiences and develop approaches that fit your strengths, responsibilities, and environment. Your work together may focus on making tasks easier to start, managing distractions, building flexible routines, responding to frustration, improving follow-through, and addressing the self-criticism that can develop after repeated setbacks.

His own experience navigating education and competitive sport with ADHD informs his curiosity about what works for you without assuming that your experience is the same as his.

Together, you can explore why a strategy might help, adapt it to your life, and change course when it is not working.

Your ambition deserves support that considers both your performance and your wellbeing.

When you care deeply about what you do, setbacks can feel personal. You may perform freely in training and then feel tense, robotic, or jittery when it matters. You might struggle to truly “lock in,” feel flooded with thoughts, replay mistakes, hesitate when you need to act, or become so focused on getting everything right that your performance feels forced. Sometimes you can see flashes of what you are capable of but have difficulty accessing that level consistently.

Graham understands these challenges through his experience competing at the collegiate and professional levels and through his clinical and mental performance work with athletes and other high performers. Your work may explore how pressure, attention, self-talk, expectations, and emotional responses affect your performance—and how those same patterns influence your life beyond it.

Depending on your goals, sessions may focus on preparing for competition, improving focus, developing pre-performance routines, refocusing after mistakes, managing performance anxiety, rebuilding confidence after an injury or slump, or responding more effectively when a performance does not go as planned.

Therapy can also address perfectionism, burnout, sleep challenges, injury and concussion, identity, transitions out of sport, and the difficulty of allowing yourself to recover when you feel you should always be doing more.

Whether your arena is sport, academics, performing arts, esports, or business, the goal is not simply to help you achieve more. It is to help you pursue what matters to you in a way that supports both your performance and your wellbeing.

Graham also works with parents and coaches who want to better understand the pressures athletes and high performers experience and develop more supportive ways of responding.

Your care should reflect how the different parts of your life affect one another.

Sleep, attention, stress, physical health, injury, recovery, nutrition, relationships, and daily routines can all influence how you feel and perform. CARESPACE Hespeler Road, Graham can collaborate with other practitioners, with your consent, when their expertise supports your goals. For example, if you are returning to sport following an injury, psychotherapy might address fear, frustration, confidence, or identity while a physiotherapist guides physical rehabilitation and another practitioner addresses additional aspects of recovery.

Coordinating care, with direct lines of communication, can help ensure that your physical and psychological goals are moving in the same direction, with your priorities guiding the process.

Take the next step toward understanding yourself and performing with greater confidence.

You do not need to have everything figured out before seeking support. Whether you want help managing ADHD or anxiety, navigating the pressures of achievement, improving your mental performance, recovering from a setback, or developing a more sustainable way of pursuing your goals, Graham offers a place to understand what is getting in the way and begin making meaningful changes.

Book an appointment with Graham Tebbit today and begin building an approach that fits your life.