- Are you consistent in practice but often "choke" during competition?
- Do you struggle to keep a positive mindset after a loss or missed play?
- Is constant worry impacting your ability to perform to your potential?
- Do you find that you have constant negative "chatter" in your head that interferes with your game?
- Are you having trouble with motivation and focus?
- Has an injury sidelined you, or are you having trouble trusting your body post-injury?
The good news is that every athlete and optimal performer on the planet has dealt with these issues in some form or another. More importantly, we specialize in helping athletes go from good to great...and it's all about learning and practicing the skills that elite athletes worldwide understand at their core...the mental game.
Working with a sport psychologist will allow you to effectively address these issues. We are experts in optimal performance and we will provide you with the tools that elite athletes and performers utilize to take them to the next level in their sports.
We also offer counseling services for athletes who may be struggling with mental health issues from a respectful and integrative viewpoint, taking their identity and experience as an athlete into consideration. For more information about these services, click over to "Counseling Services".
We are experts in training athletes how to create and maintain optimal performance states through the use of a cutting edge, research based program. Our program utilizes sport psychology principals that are used by professional, olympic and elite athletes around the world.
Here are the sport psychology services we offer:
INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT SESSIONS
Sessions are focused on maximizing and enhancing performance by learning and applying mental skills required to enhance consistency and concentration, maximize strengths, increase confidence, deal with performance anxiety, set realistic goals and manage expectations. We can also address issues related to injuries, team dynamics and dealing with increased pressures and responsibilities. It is individualized and aimed to the specific athlete's abilities, experience and age.
PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT FOR TEAMS
Sessions available to provide an educational and experiential introduction to the application of sport psychology principles. Topics include: Team building and dynamics, dealing with anxiety, imagery and self-talk for peak performance, creating successful pre-performance routines, goal-setting, concentration training, dealing with injuries and burn-out, and achieving flow among others.
INDIVIDUALIZED PERFORMANCE PROFILES
These individualized profiles are achieved through the administration of sport specific assessments of mental skills and motivation that will allow us to learn about your strengths and weaknesses in the mental realm as an athlete. We will give you specific feedback and recommendations about how to turn your weaknesses into strengths and your strengths into diamonds! We will assess, give you feedback and suggestions on you motivational style, your ideal pre-performance states, your concentration abilities, how you take feedback from coaches, and how your self-talk impacts your performance in competitions and games. This is a worthwhile investment for serious, elite or professional athletes, performers or individuals who want to delve deeply to uncover their maximum potential!
STRESS MANAGEMENT
These sessions are skill based and focus on teaching you specific behavioral strategies to help you manage your stress, lower your anxiety, and feel more in control of your responses to stress and your changing environment!
These services also offered for Performers of any kind! (Dancers, Musician, Theatre, etc).
