EDUCATE. ELEVATE. ACHIEVE
The world is full of children who used to have an anxiety disorder - Dr Eli Lebowitz, Yale Child Study Center
Hi, I’m Kevin Sundin- I’m a Performance Consultant providing services to students, athletes, adults, and families. For the past 10 years, I’ve been lucky enough to work with families and athletes from all around the world. I’ve helped thousands of families achieve peak performance through executive functioning and mindset systems from the court to the classroom. I specialize in work with ADHD populations and anxiety disorders. I help families create structures, learn skills, and carry out intentional plans through carefully designed consultations. As an ADHD specialist, I follow the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for all treatment plans.
My approach with parents is a specialized support system rooted deeply in the principles of Yale’s SPACE treatment program within the Yale Child Study Center. I am a verified and trained provider in SPACE, a program founded by Dr. Eli Lebowitz, director of the Anxiety Disorders Program at Yale. In a world of heightened anxiety and lowered resilience within our student populations, SPACE treats students through carefully decreased parent/caretaker accommodation and increased systems of support.
With a background and love for athletics, I also work with athletes to support performance in sports, studies, and day to day life. I deliver tailored executive functioning tools designed to boost planning, socializing, focus, emotional regulation, and decision-making.
Before all this, I was a corporate English teacher specializing in positions of leadership. This journey took me to Europe where I worked with companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Mercedes Benz, Skype, and even local ministries and law enforcement in Prague, Czech Republic. I continue to visit Prague every year, as I consider it my second home. In 2018, I returned to the beautiful beaches of my hometown, Santa Monica , to begin working with grade school populations as a classroom teacher. I had stints in Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, and Culver City as a teacher and coach.
These days, I reside in the beautiful state of Tennessee with my wonderful wife, Brooke Sundin. Both California natives, I am a proud Alum of Loyola Marymount University and Brooke of UC Santa Barbara. Brooke is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and owns the Los Angeles based practice, Light Minds Child & Family Therapy. Together, we love to collaborate in all things wellness while keeping up with the newest up to date studies and practices. We can often be found out chasing a workout, enjoying live music, visiting a favorite restaurant, or at home planning our next travel adventure.
I’m here to help with all your ADHD, Anxiety, and Executive Functioning needs. In addition, I love to give the best referral to my clients in search of family therapy services.
About Achieve
Anxiety
FRAMEWORK
I am a trained and verified provider of Yale’s SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) program, a parent-based treatment model created by The Yale Child Study Center within the Yale School of Medicine. SPACE was created by Dr. Eli Lebowitz, director of the Yale Child Study Center’s Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program. I train parents and caregivers to shift their own behaviors, reduce accommodations and increase emotional support to help children overcome ADHD, anxiety or OCD symptoms. This evidence-based method has demonstrated effectiveness comparable to traditional child-focused therapy, and is especially beneficial when children resist or cannot engage in therapy themselves. SPACE has proven to be an efficacious treatment model that yields higher results of success than CBT for children with anxiety and OCD disorders.
Some of the main anxiety related challenges treated with SPACE:
Separation anxiety
Social anxiety
Generalized anxiety
Fears and phobias
Panic disorder and Agoraphobia
Selective mutism
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Picky Eating (ARFID)
SPACE treatments are adult facing and target adult behavior modification. While the child is the patient, parents learn to respond more supportively to their child and reduce the accommodations they have been making to their child’s symptoms. SPACE treatments can also be structured for child based sessions to target and promote areas for growth.
THE ACHIEVE APPROACH
✔️ Personalized Scheduling
Weekly sessions are arranged around your schedule with availability reserved for you.
✔️ Client Rapport
First and foremost, trust is key. Establishing rapport is instrumental to future progress. I believe in establishing genuine connections with clients to target growth areas with complete transparency and clear education.
✔️ Evidence-Based Training
Sessions are tailored and customized with attention to your individual needs. Approaches are grounded in evidence, based on up to date practices. All services follow the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for all recommended treatments of ADHD, anxiety, & OCD.
✔️ Personalized Confidential Services
All services are provided with each individual client in mind. I believe that strong relationships achieve impactful results. In addition, complete confidentiality is honored.
Getting Started
Schedule a 15 minute free consultation.
After our consultation, you can schedule a 50 minute telehealth intake session. All sessions, including our intake, are completed via telehealth. Intakes are a good opportunity for me to learn more about your needs and determine if my services would be a good match.
Before our intake session, you will receive intake forms that must be completed prior to starting sessions.
Following our intake, there is no pressure or commitment to sessions. What’s most important to me is that you find the right clinician or specialist for your needs. After our intake, I will follow up to discuss if you would like to move forward with sessions. This process is meant to be short, easy, and flexible. If I’m the right provider for you, then we’ll create a plan for sessions moving forward.
Nothing is more gratifying to me than seeing my clients grow and move towards achieving their goals. I always appreciate families allowing and entrusting me in becoming part of their journey. I will work with you as a professional and as a teammate along the way to achieving long term success.