Tess Kilwein joined Vanderbilt in April 2023 as a sport psychologist.

Kilwein previously served as a trauma specialist, director of clinical training, athletics liaison, and behavioral health consultant for the University of Wyoming from 2020-23. In that role, their responsibilities included providing supervision, individual counseling, assessment, crisis response, consultation, and outreach services to students and campus partners. Kilwein also integrated the university counseling center’s mental health service into athletics and served as a trauma specialist for the athletic department’s Student-Athlete Sexual Misconduct Prevention Team.

From 2019-20, Kilwein was a postdoctoral psychology fellow at the Colorado State University Heath Network, helping to provide individual and group counseling to college students who use substances, mental health and sports performance services to student-athletes, and behavioral health consultation to the university’s primary, urgent, and women/gender medical services. They were also a member of the eating disorder concerns team and the Drugs, Alcohol, and You for Athletes service, providing individual, group, and case management support to student-athletes with substance use concerns.

Kilwein is a 2014 graduate of North Dakota State with a degree in psychology, adding a master’s degree in clinical psychology from the North Dakota in 2016 and a doctor of philosophy degree in clinical psychology from Wyoming in 2019. They completed a pre-doctoral internship at Denver Health Medical Center in Denver, Colorado, in 2018-2019 and a post-doctoral fellowship at Colorado State University Health Network in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2019-2020. Kilwein is a board-certified, licensed clinical psychologist in four states and credentialed as a health service psychologist.