Orlando Castro is one of the only people in South Florida who has spent three decades running crisis units for adolescents and thirteen seasons in a dugout evaluating what makes a competitor break — or hold. Awakenings Consulting is where that experience becomes your family’s advantage.
For more than three decades, I have dedicated my career to behavioral health and helping people navigate some of life’s most challenging moments.
My experience has allowed me to work with adolescents, adults, families, and athletes facing emotional, behavioral, and performance-related challenges. Throughout that journey, I’ve learned that meaningful progress starts with understanding the whole person — not simply the problem they are experiencing.
Sports have also played an important role in my life. After 13 seasons of coaching baseball and working with athletes at different competitive levels, I developed a firsthand understanding of the pressure, expectations, setbacks, and emotional demands that come with competition.
Today, I bring these two worlds together at Awakenings Consulting, combining behavioral health experience with an understanding of competitive sports to help clients strengthen their mental and emotional well-being.
I believe effective support begins by listening and understanding what is really happening beneath the surface.
For an athlete, a loss of confidence may be connected to performance pressure, fear of failure, injury, family expectations, or challenges outside of sports. For an adolescent or adult, stress and emotional difficulties may be influenced by relationships, transitions, self-esteem, or everyday responsibilities.
Rather than using the same approach for everyone, I focus on understanding each client’s experiences, challenges, and goals.
Together, we work toward practical strategies that can strengthen resilience, improve emotional well-being, build confidence, and create meaningful progress in everyday life.
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