Sport Psychology for parents

Mental skills training, using sport psychology principles, helps build a dominant mental game and inspires peak performance in your youth athlete. Mental skill training gives your athlete an edge over the competition for the top team and the top spot.

As a parent, the understanding you gain from being a part of their experience is priceless in the connection it provides with your athlete. Parenting an athlete is a challenge.

At Mind Right Sport Psychology, we work with parents to train sport psychology skills too. Whether it is within the context of working with your athlete, or on your own, you will learn the elements that build and maintain a strong mental game!

The benefits gained through training the mental game will help your athlete on the field and in life. Mental toughness, confidence, and resilience carry over into day-to-day functioning.

• They will learn that they can influence their future with the choices they make and actions they take.
• They will become competent, confident and work toward mastery in their skill set and abilities.
• They will connect to and thrive in healthy systems in their lives (friends, family, sports teams, etc.).

Sport psychology training helps athletes and parents have more fun. This is because performance is consistent and always near the top of the athlete's ability.

Skills learned include:

• goal setting
• focus
• management of activation
•  anxiety and emotion management 
• self-talk control
• imagery/visualization.

The mental skills learned not only benefit an athlete in sports, they also support mental health development and functioning away from sports.

Working with your athlete, or on your own, you will learn the art and science that sits underneath the mental part of high performance. By understanding the elements of a strong mental game you will be able to support your athlete as they develop. A shared purpose and language in the sporting environment minimizes resistance and maximizes communication. The increase in the quality and frequency of healthy communication with your athlete that pays off in day-to-day life, too. You will infuse the science behind motivation, performance, and self-regulation into your parenting and support athletic and personal development. By leaning into sport psychology training yourself, you will be well equipped to face the challenges of parenting an athlete!

As a compliment to our comprehensive Online Mental Skills Training Course for athletes called The Drive to Thrive, we offer a parent version of The Drive to Thrive that will equip you with a sport psychology toolbox. The fundamental of sport psychology are taught in the program with additional insight into how to communicate what you have learned with your athlete. You will see improved communication, and more enjoyment of sport for you and your athlete.

We provide face-to-face training in sport psychology in San Antonio. We also offer Zoom sport psychology sessions for parents and athletes all over the country. Often, the best place to train mental skills is in the field, so we come to you too.

We travel nationally, providing one-on-one services, doing clinics, and helping athletes and families succeed. If you are parenting an athlete, you will see a benefit in your system from training mental skills!