Maddie Barron, Psy.D., HSPP

Biography

Dr. Maddie E. Barron, Psy.D., HSPP, is a clinical/sport psychologist who joined the Sport Psychology team at Northwestern in June 2020. She provides mental health and mental performance services for Northwestern University varsity student-athletes and is a member of various multidisciplinary and high performance teams within NUDAR. Dr. Barron serves as the primary team sport psychologist for women's cross country, women's volleyball, men's wrestling, men's tennis, and the cheer/spirit squad. Dr. Barron has dedicated her career to working with elite performers and advancing the education, prevention, identification and clinical practice for the continuum of disordered eating in sport and Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDS). Her doctoral research focused on exploring student-athlete mental health, female athletes with eating disorders, and the Female Athlete Triad. During her time at Midwestern, she embarked on a multi-year project replicating a 2002 study published by the NCAA and leaders in the field of eating disorders in sport. In 2013, her dissertation work culminated in evaluating over 1,000 NCAA Division I coaches and their attitudes, beliefs, knowledge and interventions with female athletes with disordered eating and the Female Athlete Triad. Prior to her role at Northwestern, Dr. Barron served as a sport psychologist at UCONN from 2014-2020 where she worked with staff and varsity student-athletes across all sports. Dr. Barron is a licensed clinical psychologist