MENTAL PERFORMANCE CONSULTING

Mental performance consulting helps athletes, performers, and high-stakes professionals develop the capacity to execute under pressure.

This isn't therapy. It's not motivational speaking. It's performance work—grounded in sport psychology, neuroscience, and two decades in the arena.

I work with elite performers in pro sport, tactical operations, medicine, performing arts, and professions where clarity and composure define outcomes.

When This Work Matters

You perform well in practice but fall apart in competition

You know what to do. You've trained the skills. But when stakes rise, something shifts—focus narrows wrong, confidence evaporates, or you second-guess decisions you'd make automatically in practice.

This isn't about effort. It's about what happens to your nervous system, attention, and decision-making under pressure.

The mental skills you learned aren't holding up anymore

You've worked with sport psychologists before. You have routines, breathing techniques, visualization practices. They helped initially.

But the same issues are back, or the strategies feel forced, or they work until the moment that really counts.

When conscious strategies stop working, the issue is deeper—physiological dysregulation or unconscious patterns that tactics can't override.

You're stuck in a pattern you can't break

Self-sabotage before breakthrough. Perfectionism that's gone from motivating to paralyzing. Injuries that healed physically months ago but you're still not performing like yourself.

You've tried working harder, being more disciplined, thinking more positively. The pattern persists.

Performance work needs to go beneath the conscious level—understanding what's driving the pattern and training the flexibility to act differently.

You're navigating a major transition

Returning from injury. Recovering from burnout. Transitioning from player to coach, individual performer to team leader, or stepping away from competition entirely.

Transitions disrupt identity, motivation, and the structures that used to hold you.

The Work

Physiology — Nervous system regulation, recovery protocols, arousal management

Cognition — Attention control, pre-performance routines, imagery, decision-making under pressure

Emotion & Pattern — The unconscious patterns, drives, and conflicts that determine how you perform when stakes are highest

This is where most sport psychology stops. This is where the real work begins.

Who This Is For

• Athletes (youth, collegiate, Olympic, professional) preparing for competition, recovering from injury, or navigating transitions

• Coaches and team leaders building high-performance cultures

• Tactical professionals (military, law enforcement, first responders) managing stress and decision-making under extreme conditions

• Medical professionals (physicians, surgeons, clinical teams) performing under pressure with high consequences

• Performing artists (dancers, musicians, actors) managing performance anxiety, perfectionism, and the demands of their craft

If you're a corporate leader or executive, visit the Executive Coaching page.

What Makes This Different

The CMPC Credential

I'm a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC)—the gold standard in applied sport psychology, granted by the Association for Applied Sport Psychology.

This certification requires graduate-level education in sport psychology, supervised fieldwork, demonstrated competence in ethical evidence-based practice, and ongoing professional development.

An Integrated Approach

I hold a Ph.D. in Kinesiology (Psychology of Movement), an M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and advanced training in psychoanalysis. I'm a Licensed Associate Counselor and Exercise Physiologist.

This allows me to work at three levels: physiological (nervous system and recovery), conscious (mental skills and psychological flexibility), and unconscious (the drives, defenses, and emotional patterns running beneath awareness).

Most consultants work at one level. This integration lets me identify where your challenge actually lives and address it there.

Mental Performance vs. Therapy

Mental Performance Consulting: Focus on performance. Build systems for focus, confidence, composure, resilience. Non-clinical.

Therapy: Focus on mental health. Address anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship issues. Clinical treatment.

My clinical training informs how I approach performance work. It also helps me recognize when someone might benefit from clinical support. If that's the case, I'll help you find appropriate resources.

The services on this page are mental performance consulting, not therapy.

How It Works

We start by clarifying what you're working toward. Then we assess the full picture—mental habits, stressors, routines, environment. Together we build a performance plan tailored to you. We train it through consistent sessions, test it in real conditions, and refine as you grow. The goal is durability, not quick fixes.

What to Expect

Format: Individual sessions (virtual or in-person), on-site work when applicable, ongoing support between sessions

Frequency: Weekly during high-intensity periods, bi-weekly or monthly for ongoing development, intensive blocks for specific challenges

Duration: Some challenges resolve in weeks, others require months

Investment: Varies based on scope, frequency, and depth. Pricing shared after initial conversation.