Dr. André Austell serves Purdue Athletics as a Clinical and Sport Psychologist. In this role, he provides psychological counseling and assessment services, performance enhancement and mental skills training, psychoeducation, consultation and team-building services. His clinical focus areas include clinical sport psychology (performance enhancement and mental skills training), multicultural issues, ADHD, Learning disabilities, psychological assessment, anxiety, depression and interpersonal challenges/dynamics.
Dr. Austell joined the Boilermakers in January 2025 from the University of Memphis, where he served as a staff psychologist in the student health center and counseling services. At Memphis, he provided psychological services to students, supervised pre-doctoral interns and served as a liaison with the athletic department.
Dr. Austell holds a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of Missouri, an Master's of Education in kinesiology with an emphasis in sport psychology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Austell earned his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from John F. Kennedy University.
During his post-doctoral fellowship at the Mizzou Counseling Center, he collaborated with the athletics department’s Mizzou Made Program to offer psychoeducational workshops to student-athletes. He also provided individual and crisis services, facilitated workshops and served on diversity committees.
As a pre-doctoral intern at the El Paso Psychology Internship Consortium (EPPIC), Dr. Austell worked with the University of Texas at El Paso counseling and psychological services (UTEP CAPS). He built relationships within the UTEP athletics department and provided therapy, assessments and referrals for student-athletes.
Dr. Austell is a native of St. Louis, Missouri, where he graduated from Parkway North High School.