Émilie Berthelot Gagné holds a Master's in Physical Exercise Sciences, with a specialization in Intervention and Consulting in Sport and Physical Activity, and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the Université de Sherbrooke. She has attended several training sessions on grief, suicide and active listening as well as various conferences on sports psychology in both Canada and the United States including with the Association for Applied Sports Psychology (AASP) and the North American Society for psychology of sport and physical activity (NASPSPA). In addition, she was invited to participate as a mental performance consultant at an elite soccer camp in the summer of 2013 and 2014 where she introduced athletes to sport psychology through various workshops. She works mainly in sport-studies programs (Marie-rivier high school and De Mortagne high school) while having more than 5 years of experience as a mental performance consultant working with youth level through high performance varsity athletes across a variety of sports (espoir, relève, élite, excellence).