Online Therapy in New Jersey | Sports Psychology, LGBTQ+ Affirming Care & DBT
Serving New Jersey Residents (and Beyond) Exclusively Online
Finding a therapist you actually connect with is hard enough without the added pressure of location logistics. At Grand Slam Psych, Dr. El McCabe offers the same clinical expertise and warmth you’d get in a traditional office, except you can access it from anywhere in New Jersey, right from your home or wherever feels comfortable.
We are exclusively online. No office location, no commute needed. Just secure, confidential therapy from a licensed psychologist based in New Jersey with a genuine passion for helping New Jerseyans thrive.
Why Dr. McCabe & New Jersey
Dr. McCabe and postdoc friends post-climb of one of Princeton’s oldest structures
Dr. El McCabe is based in Lawrence Township, New Jersey, where she runs Grand Slam Psychological Services. She’s not just licensed to practice in New Jersey, she’s embedded in the community and invested in the mental health of people across the state. After graduating with her Ph.D. in Counseling & School Psychology from the University at Buffalo, SUNY, she completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University. At Princeton, Dr. McCabe dove deep into working with D1 student athletes across 15+ teams and in her work on the Transgender Health team.
Dr. McCabe grew up in the New York City area and remains a passionate New York sports fan, a passion that informs her work with athletes and performers. But New Jersey is home now, and she’s committed to serving the state’s residents with the same rigor, warmth, and genuine care that built her practice.
And she does it entirely online, so whether you’re in the northern suburbs, down the Shore, or anywhere across New Jersey, you can work with her without changing your schedule or commute to an office.
What We Treat (New Jersey Focus)
Sports Psychology | Mental Performance for NJ Athletes
New Jersey is home to incredible athletes at every level, from D1 competitors to semi-professional athletes to high school standouts training at the highest level. But raw talent and physical conditioning only get you so far. When the pressure is highest, when the stakes are real, it’s the mental game that separates athletes performing at their ceiling from those performing below it.
Dr. McCabe specializes in sports psychology with experience working with:
- D1 college athletes (she completed her post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton supporting athletes across 15+ teams)
- Professional and semi-professional athletes navigating the mental side of performance
- Coaches carrying enormous performance pressure of their own
- LGBTQ+ athletes navigating identity and belonging in sports
Whether you’re dealing with performance anxiety, burnout, confidence issues, or the mental side of injury recovery, Dr. McCabe helps you build the psychological skills that translate directly into better performance.
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LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy | Identity-Conscious Care
Finding an LGBTQ+ affirming therapist is hard. Finding one who truly gets it, not just clinically, but from lived experience, is even harder.
Dr. McCabe is an openly Queer licensed psychologist and the 2024–2025 President of APA Division 44 (The Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation & Gender Diversity). She brings clinical expertise, lived experience, and a genuine commitment to identity-conscious care to every client she works with.
Whether you’re exploring your gender identity, coming out, navigating relationship dynamics, or processing discrimination, therapy with Dr. McCabe is a space where your identity isn’t something to explain or work around, it’s centered, validated, and honored.
She has particular expertise working with:
- Bisexual and pansexual individuals
- Non-binary and gender non-conforming individuals
- Transgender clients exploring or navigating transition
- Queer athletes (the intersection of sports + identity + mental health)
Learn more about LGBTQ+ affirming therapy →
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) | Skills That Work
DBT is one of the most well-researched, skills-based therapies available. It’s built around four core pillars: mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Unlike rigid, manualized DBT programs, Dr. McCabe takes a personalized approach: she hand-selects the most relevant DBT skills for your specific situation, teaches them in plain language, and helps you practice them in real moments that matter.
If you’re struggling with emotional dysregulation, persistent conflict in relationships, or patterns of self-destructive behavior, DBT can help. For athletes especially, DBT-based emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills translate directly into better mental performance under pressure.
How It Works: Exclusively Online
All therapy at Grand Slam Psych is conducted 100% online via secure video sessions. Here’s what that means for you:
✅ No commute, whether you’re in North Jersey or South Jersey, you log in from home
✅ Schedule flexibility, sessions fit your life, not the other way around
✅ Complete privacy, therapy from your own safe space
✅ Same quality care, Dr. McCabe brings the same warmth, expertise, and clinical rigor as any in-person practice
✅ Secure & confidential, HIPAA-compliant video platform
What to Expect in Your First Session
Your first session is about getting to know each other and figuring out if we’re a good fit. Dr. McCabe will ask thoughtful questions about what brings you in, what your goals are, and what you’re hoping to get out of therapy. She’ll also share about her approach so you can decide if it resonates with you.
If you want to move forward, you’ll complete some brief (and confidential) intake paperwork, and from there, you set the pace. Sessions are collaborative, conversational, and tailored to you.
Insurance, Costs, & Access
Licensed in New Jersey: Dr. McCabe is fully licensed to see clients in New Jersey state.
Insurance: We accept several in-network plans including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Quest. If we’re not in-network with your plan, we provide superbills for out-of-network reimbursement.
Private Pay: Intake sessions are $225. Individual therapy sessions are $200. Limited sliding scale slots are available based on income.
Therapy Intensives: 3–4 hour immersive sessions (great for making rapid progress on a specific concern). Pricing ranges from $650–$850 depending on the intensive type and whether you’re a new or existing client.
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Why Choose Grand Slam Psych?
Licensed psychologist, not a coach. Dr. McCabe is equipped to work with both the performance/skill side and the deeper mental health concerns that often underlie it. Anxiety, depression, identity struggles, and burnout don’t stay in the locker room, they deserve real clinical attention.
Real expertise, not generic advice. With a Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton, published research in LGBTQ+ mental health, and years of clinical experience, Dr. McCabe brings depth to the work.
Warm and challenging. Her style is genuine, curious, and often playful, but she’ll also push you. That combination of challenge and support is what drives real growth.
Based in New Jersey, invested in New Jersey. Dr. McCabe practices from Lawrence Township and is deeply committed to serving New Jersey residents. She understands the particular pressures and culture of the state, whether you’re an athlete, a professional, an LGBTQ+ person, or someone navigating multiple identities at once.