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