Sport & Mental Performance Coaching
Are you having trouble managing performance anxiety?
Are thoughts making it difficult to compete?
Would you like to learn how to manage emotions better during performance?
Sport & Mental Performance Coaching may be right for you if:
You’re afraid of making mistakes and have difficulty moving on from mistakes.
You’re performing inconsistently due to anxiety or being in your own head.
You haven’t been feeling like yourself while performing.
You’re having a difficult time enjoying activities due to performance.
What is Sport & Mental Performance Coaching?
For a long time, mental performance coaching was synonymous with ‘mental toughness.’
Professionals are now recognizing that there is so much more to mental performance than being ‘mentally strong.’
Mental performance coaching now looks at the more nuanced mental health issues and commonalities that individuals within a competitive setting experience.
Sport and mental performance coaching is a resource utilized to work with individuals who are having difficulty within several areas that include, but are not limited to:
Confidence, coachability, adaptability, anxiety, teamwork, and athletic identity.
This type of coaching is utilized to inquire about areas of struggle and provide collaborative ways to increase mental well-being in order to achieve performance goals.
Sport and mental performance coaching isn’t limited to athletics.
Mental performance skills are widely applicable to other populations like artists, musicians, and outcome-dependent workplaces.
Our Approach
Our approach is to help athletes/performers understand how their mind influences performance and how to apply mental strategies to help confidence and skillfulness during high pressure situations.
We also see clients as individuals who have their own needs and do not believe in the ‘one size fits all’ framework.
Our approach is to help find your barriers, develop strategies to overcome them, and sustain change through mindfulness and application.
To see us in action and hear us speak on some relevant topics, head to In the Media and to the Blog.
Sport & Mental Performance Coaching is different from therapy and regular coaching.
While traditional coaching is directive and focuses on output, sport and mental performance coaching focuses on input.
We look to see what performance challenges an individual is facing and then work to provide preventative and in-the-moment coping skills that can be utilized for years to come.
Sport and mental performance coaching is not intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any mental health condition.
Although there are many overlaps between mental performance and evidenced-based therapy, mental performance skills coaching does not focus on symptom etiology and other underlying factors that might be contributing to mental distress.
FAQs
How long does sport and mental performance coaching last?
We believe that every individual is unique and learns at their own pace.
We work to find something that works for your schedule, expectations, and level of commitment.
Coaching may be a short-term arrangement or a longer-term commitment; we’ll assess this at intake and along the way to make sure it’s feeling aligned.
Are my coaches involved with sport and mental performance coaching?
Not unless you want them to be. If you are wanting us to reach out to a coach for any reason, we will sign a mutual agreement outlining the nature of communication and boundaries to disclosure.
Please know that I am a mandated reporter through Safe Sport in cases of abuse.
Can I see you for therapy and sport and mental performance coaching?
In most cases, you’ll be assigned one clinician for sport and mental performance coaching and a different clinician for therapy. You can certainly be working on both simultaneously but it’s best practice to keep these modes separate.
Where is your office?
While we are mostly working virtually, we are available for on-site coaching for sport and mental performance coaching. We do not have an office so we would be coming to your place of practice.
$175-$200
50-minute session