Who We Are
Doc Wayne’s mission is to fuse sport and therapy to heal and strengthen at-risk youth. Our team provides innovative mental health services for youth, ages 5-18, across Greater Boston and MetroWest. Over time, as individuals and in teams, youth learn to heal together, grow together, and win together.
What We Do
Doc Wayne’s Chalk Talk® program reimagines group therapy by harnessing the power of team sports like soccer, basketball, and football. Through sport-based mental health therapy, children become resilient and thoughtful leaders. Doc Wayne also launched a new program, Therapeutic Mentoring (TM), to complement our existing Chalk Talk® program. Our team collaborates with the MassHealth Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI) to provide this additional opportunity for students to improve their mental and behavioral health while building supportive relationships with trusted adults. Therapeutic Mentoring provides structured, one on one, strength-based support services for the purposes of addressing needs and building skills. All of Doc Wayne’s programming is guided by our unique, innovative, and proprietary curriculum: Creating Champions. Creating Champions layers clinical and social emotional learning goals onto an easy-to-grasp sports framework. The curriculum is derived from two therapeutic models: the Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC) Framework and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). By combining these models with sport-based language and fun activities, Doc Wayne coaches engage youth who may not progress in traditional talk therapy.
