My Mission

Dr. Oiness is a licensed counseling psychologist, who specializes in sport and performance psychology. She currently serves as the sport psychologist for UNLV Athletics and consults with the Vegas Golden Knights, Las Vegas Aces, NBA G-League Ignite and the Las Vegas Raideretts. She specializes in the treatment of mental health within an athlete population, as well as performance enhancement and mental skills training.

 

Dr. Oiness is a Henderson native. Prior to returning to Las Vegas to spearhead the first sport psychology position within the UNLV Athletics Department, Dr. Oiness served as the Director of Sport Psychology at Purdue University. Additionally, she served as a sport psychologist at St.Vincent Sports Performance in Indianapolis; in this role, she consulted with the Purdue University Athletics Department, Butler Athletics Department, and the Indiana Fever. She also worked with individual athletes and teams of all ages and calibers – youth, high school, collegiate and elite – at SVSP.

 

Prior to joining SVSP in 2014, Dr. Oiness served as the Assistant Director of Psychological Resources for the University of Oklahoma Athletics Department, consulting with athletes, teams, coaches, team physicians and athletic trainers. 

 

Dr. Oiness earned her doctoral degree in counseling psychology from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. Dr. Oiness then completed her post-doctoral fellowship working full-time in the University of Oklahoma’s Athletics Department. Prior, she earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Iowa State University, where she competed as a Division I gymnast. She continues to remain active through her passion for running and participating in half-marathons.