What is Sport Psychology?

Goal setting is a powerful and necessary technique for enhancing and facilitating performance. Goals help an athlete stick to challenging tasks, remain persistent and confident, focused, and create momentum in the right direction. Goal setting is one of the most important mental skills for athletes to harness to improve every facet of performance, but is not maximized or fully understood. Mind Right Sport Psychology teaches how to set and conquer outcome, process, and performance goals.

Self-talk is the automatic inner voice which provides a running commentary on our experiences. It is an important part of day-to-day life and relevant to sport psychology. Negative self-talk guides one's experience into the gravitational pull of their negative beliefs about sport and life and destroys peak performance. When trained, controlled, and used intentionally, self-talk sparks peak performance. Self-talk controls focus, funnels thoughts, actions and behaviors to the task at hand, and manages mental and physical activation levels.

Emotional states happen in the mind and body. Performance triggers the brain's threat sensors, creating a psychological and physiological reaction that limits peak performance.  If not managed, this derails performance. AtMind Right Sport Psychology, we train athletes to manage the  heightened emotions competition brings.  We use sport psychology and traditional cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to equip our athletes with coping skills to stay competitive under pressure.

Imagery is a way to simulate training of new skills, improve technique, and recover from injury. It draws on all relevant senses, including what the athlete sees, hears, smells, tastes, and feels emotionally and physically. Imagery creates a mental blueprint to be projected onto future performance.