What families ask before, during, and after the AEP.

The Athletic Embeddedness Profile is a decision support instrument for athletes facing a commitment decision: high school recruit, JUCO athlete moving to a four-year program, transfer portal candidate, or athlete weighing an NIL offer. It maps how your athlete weights the things that actually drive a college decision: athletic, academic, financial, and life beyond sport.

Paired with the Parent Perspective, it produces a side-by-side Alignment Profile showing where your family agrees, where you disagree, and where the conversations have not yet happened.

About 22 minutes for the athlete instrument. About 15 minutes for the Parent Perspective. About 10 minutes for the family intake form. Total time across instruments: roughly 50 minutes. Plus the 90-minute family debrief.

A heat map showing how your athlete weights every intersection of Sacrifice, Fit, Links, and Promise Integrity across Athletics, Academics, Financial, and Life Beyond Sport. The Parent Perspective produces a parallel heat map. The Alignment Profile overlays the two and surfaces the highest-stakes conversations.

A practitioner runs a 90-minute family debrief. You walk away with the heat map, the question library activated by your priorities, and a structured way to evaluate every offer on the table.

One parent or guardian completes the Parent Perspective on behalf of the parental unit. Two parents completing the instrument separately produces ambiguous alignment math without producing better insight.

If you and your co-parent want to weigh in together, complete the form together. Talk through items where you disagree before answering. That conversation is itself useful preparation for the debrief.

The parent or guardian who signs the engagement is the parent who completes the Parent Perspective. If both custodial parents want to participate, you decide together which one completes the form. We do not adjudicate custody arrangements or family dynamics. If both parents want to be present at the debrief, both are welcome.

The Parent Perspective is designed for the parent or guardian who holds primary decision-making authority. If another family member is functionally that person (a grandparent raising the athlete, an uncle who handles recruiting, a step-parent who has been the lead voice), they can complete the instrument with the legal parent's consent. Tell the practitioner at engagement scoping.

The Parent Perspective measures how your family weights priorities. If you disagree, the conversation about why you disagree is one of the most valuable conversations in the engagement. Two options: complete the form together and talk through every item where you disagree until you arrive at a shared answer, or designate one parent to answer and use the debrief to surface the disagreement. We recommend the first. The conversation it forces is the work.

Yes. The athlete-only engagement is fully supported. The Parent Perspective and the Alignment Profile are added value, not required. Tell the practitioner at engagement scoping and the opt-out gets documented.

If you opt out and change your mind later, you can complete the Parent Perspective any time before the debrief. The scoring re-runs and produces the overlay.

Both instruments and intake must complete before the debrief gets scheduled. The engagement scoping call sets the specific deadline based on your athlete's decision timeline. Common windows: two weeks from start for athletes outside the portal window, faster for athletes facing an expiring offer.

The practitioner reaches out. The debrief doesn't move forward until both instruments are in. Rushing produces a worse heat map than waiting another few days for a thoughtful one.

Yes. If circumstances change materially (new offers, transfer decision after enrollment, NIL contract restructuring, post-college planning), the family can re-engage. Each administration is priced separately. Most families do not re-administer within a single recruiting cycle; the priority architecture is stable across that window.

We may contact you at six and twelve months after commitment to ask a short set of questions about how the decision is playing out. This is optional and consent is separate from the engagement.

The practitioner is not licensed to provide clinical care. If you, your athlete, or the practitioner notices indicators that a clinical-care need is present, the practitioner hands off to a licensed clinician. The AEP is a decision support instrument, not a substitute for clinical care.

You own it. Your athlete's responses, the heat maps, the practitioner debrief notes, and any documents we create for your family are your property. We do not sell data. We do not share data with any program your family is evaluating. We do not recommend specific programs.

Full handling rules are in the AEP Privacy and Data Use Agreement you sign at engagement intake.

The certified practitioner running your engagement, and the secured systems we use to collect and store the instrument (Jotform and Google Workspace). No college, NIL collective, agent, or recruiting service has access. Coaches you may be working with do not see your responses unless you choose to share them.

Several cells in the AEP correlate with socioeconomic background, intergenerational education, and cultural context. Without that context, the practitioner can misread cell scores. A first-generation college family scoring low on the alumni network cell is not devaluing alumni networks; they have no pre-existing alumni network to draw on, which is a different finding than "alumni networks are not important to this family."

Demographics are optional. You can leave them blank. If you provide them, they help the practitioner interpret your heat map responsibly.

No. The AEP maps your athlete's and family's priorities. It does not tell you which program to choose. The output is a structured way to evaluate every offer on the table against priorities your family has articulated. The choice is yours.

No. It is a preference-based decision support instrument. It measures how your athlete weights decision factors, not who your athlete is psychologically. It is not a clinical diagnostic, not a recruiting service, not a matchmaking algorithm.

No, unless your family chooses to share them. The practitioner does not share results with any program, coach, agent, collective, or service. If your family wants to share specific findings with a coach or advisor, you control that disclosure.

No. The instrument works for athletes at any level: D1 through D3, NAIA, JUCO, and transfer portal. The financial column of the instrument captures everything from full athletic scholarship plus NIL down to walk-on with academic aid. The instrument scales to the decision your athlete is facing.

Email information@clientpsyence.com or raise it on the engagement scoping call. The practitioner addresses family-specific situations during scoping before the instruments get administered.