Savannah Richey

Savannah Richey, LPCC, is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor at Pacific Counseling Center at Fresno Pacific University, where she works primarily with young adults navigating identity development, performance pressure, and life transitions.

Her clinical approach is holistic, integrative, and grounded in the connection between body, mind, and lived experience. She uses systems-informed and somatic perspectives to help clients understand stress and burnout, increase body awareness, and develop sustainable tools for resilience and emotional regulation.

With more than 20 years as a competitive athlete, Savannah brings personal and clinical insight to her work with student-athletes. She supports athletes navigating performance pressure, injury, identity, team culture, and the challenges of overtraining and emotional suppression, with a focus on developing healthier and more sustainable relationships with performance and movement.

As a biracial woman, first-generation college graduate, and Central Valley native, Savannah brings a culturally responsive and trauma-informed lens to her work. She has experience supporting individuals impacted by racial trauma, systemic oppression, foster care, and substance use recovery, with an emphasis on holistic, ethical, and sustainable mental health care.

Selected Advanced Training & Clinical Focus Area

Reviewed and applied concepts from NCAA Mental Health Best Practices: Inter-Association Consensus Document (2nd edition) in clinical practice with student-athletes.

Completed multiple NCAA Sport Science Institute webinars and video trainings addressing athlete mental health, injury recovery, and culturally informed intervention strategies.

Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (certificate available)

Multi-County Suicide Prevention Summit (certificate available)

Exercise in Mental Health Care (certificate available)

Identity and Racial Trauma (certificate available)

Cultural Humanity in Clinical Practice (certificate available)
Individuals, Young Adults, Adults
Alliant International University, 2018

Lic. #12310, California