About Positively Elite
Our mission is to help athletes, teams, coaches, and other performers reach their potential in their field, in the classroom, and in their relationships. To help them maintain confidence and mental strength through the challenges, pressures, and expectations of performance and life.
Positively Elite was founded by Powell Cucchiella, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC). With over 15 years of experience working with children, adolescents, and families, Powell specializes in helping performers of all types reach their peak potential.
Powell offers a variety of tools and techniques, profound clinical skills, a deep understanding of the mind, and an innate ability to connect with clients as they work towards finding consistent success.
Powell obtained a B.A. in Psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County with a concentration in Child Development, while also playing four years of Division 1 soccer. A decade later, Powell received his M.A. in Counseling and Community Psychology at The Sage Colleges, and wrote a thesis on The Total College Athlete: Increasing Performance by Promoting Well-being, while also receiving the "Top Student in Cohort" award.
After college soccer, Powell went on to play for the top premier Baltimore amateur soccer teams, winning several state and national outdoor and indoor championships. Powell often draws from his own successes and challenges as an athlete and performer as he works with his clients. He is able to understand the needs of others who share a passion for being the best they can be in their chosen craft.
As an active performance and mental health counselor and former teacher & professor in the Capital Region, Powell is passionate about sharing his knowledge and wisdom so that he can help athletes and performers all over reap the rewards of investing into the mental game!
Having led countless workshops and one-on-one sessions for individual athletes, coaches, teams, and schools, he is driven to bring Positively Elite's services all across the country one day!