Dr. Hack founded his private practice, Carolina Strategies in 2011, where he has worked with individual professional athletes from the NFL, NBA, MLB, PGA, NASCAR, WNBA, US Women’s National Soccer Team, Pro Ironman Circuit, as well as members of the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2021, and 2024 U.S. Olympic teams. 

Dr. Hack also works with junior athletes in his private practice, many of whom have gone on to collegiate and professional careers in sport.  He provided sport psychology training workshops for all of the NCFC Boys Soccer Academy teams, the Junior Hurricanes Hockey program, and the Pro5 Baseball Academy.  He has worked with over a thousand individual teenage athletes and their families to help improve their psychological health, performance, and mental fitness. At the pro level, he has consulted with the NBA league office regarding the creation of a new mental health program for players and has served as a treating clinician for the NFL’s Substance Abuse Program.

Dr. Hack has taken a leadership role in promoting the field of psychology at both state and national levels. He recently finished his 3-year term as the President of the American Psychological Association’s (APA’s) Society for Sport Psychology. In this role, Dr. Hack served as the voice of sport psychologists nationwide as they work towards educating both psychologists and the general public about the benefits of mental training for sport. Dr. Hack has also been instrumental in establishing sport psychology as a Specialty within the APA. His role as President built upon what he started more than a decade ago as one of four sport psychologists selected to co-author the national guidelines for the practice of sport psychology.

Dr. Hack has also served as the Treasurer for APA’s Society for Sport Psychology’s Executive Committee, and as the Chairperson of the Division’s Education Committee. He served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology and his work has been published in The Sport Psych Handbook (2005). He was one of the founding creators of the Big Sky National Collegiate Sport Psychology Conference to help train and educate fellow sport psychologists at DI institutions around the country.  Closer to home, Dr. Hack has been elected twice to the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Psychological Association and was appointed as its Federal Advocacy Coordinator.

Dr. Hack received his B.A. with High Honors from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D., Summa Cum Laude from Michigan State University. He started his career as a staff psychologist at the Counseling Center at UNC, Chapel Hill and as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the UNC School of Medicine before entering private practice. He has been treating adolescents, adults and athletes in his practice for more than 28 years.

Prior to becoming a psychologist, for seven years Dr. Hack was the Head Teaching Pro for junior teams and high school players at a number of private tennis clubs in metro Detroit. In college, he was a member of the University of Michigan Ski Team. Despite his vast sports knowledge, he has yet to defeat his son in fantasy football or his daughter in fantasy basketball. Outside the office, he loves staying in shape with Crossfit, boxing, and motocross, and is still trying to competently surf the fast-breaking waves on our coast.