Jimmy Bruce

Jimmy Bruce, PhD, LP
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Jimmy is from Chicago, Illinois and began working for CAPS on July 30th, 2018. Jimmy is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (specifically the Master’s Thesis Award Review Committee) and the USA Track & Field Sports Medicine and Science Committee (specifically the Sport Psychology sub-committee). He is a masters sprinter and was the Masters National Champion in 2015 for the 4x200 meter relay (55-59 year age group and club division). Additionally, Jimmy is a former national-class intercollegiate sprinter from the Atlantic Coast Conference and is a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.
Education
- University of Virginia, B.A., Psychology, 1980
- Illinois Institute of Technology, Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, 1990
Professional Interests Include:
- Clinical Sport Psychology
- Trauma and African-American male student-athletes
- Mindfulness-based sport-performance enhancement
- Coaching and athlete development
- Positive youth development
- Ethnic-racial socialization
- Addictions
- Crisis Intervention
- Violence Prevention
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Group Therapy
- Clinical supervision