Why consider Mental Performance Training?
Student-athletes are constantly striving for balance in their lives between rigorous athletic programs and classwork. Mismanaging the additional stress and pressures can hold back students from performing their optimal best. Much like a sports coach, a mental performance coach helps students improve their abilities to increase their performance.
Developing strong mental skills is often the differentiating factor between what makes an athlete into an elite athlete.
What can Sport Psychology do for my performance?
Sport Psychology won’t just help you to deal with problems or issues, it will help you to learn more about how you can be in the best psychological state of mind. It will help you to understand how your self-talk can influence your emotions and behavior. The next time you think about Sport Psychology think about how often you spend every week training your body physically and learning about technical and tactical skills. Then think about how often you spend every week training your brain and your mind. What goes on inside your mind will influence everything that you do in training or competition. By learning to understand, manage, and use your brain in an effective way you will achieve peak performance.
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What are the top benefits of Sport Psychology?
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Learning stress management skills to perform better under pressure
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Becoming more motivated and goal-oriented
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Increasing self-confidence
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Identifying strengths
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Becoming more consistent in performance
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Increasing focus and concentration skills
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Enhancing overall life skills
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Social, emotional, and ethical development
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Greater well-being, academic and social outcomes
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Do athletes only see a Mental Performance Coach when something goes wrong?
Sport Psychology is not just to help people when things go wrong. Sport Psychology is a field that can help to move athletes/students/student-athletes/professionals to the next level. There are a number of athletes who will be seeing a Sports Psychologist/Mental Performance Coach every week to not just talk about problems but to learn more about the field. To learn how basic psychological tools such as goal setting, imagery, self-talk, and relaxation skills can help to boost their performance. To learn how to become the best possible athlete from a psychological point of view. To learn how to manage their family, work, and sport life.
Is Sport Psychology a quick fix?
Unfortunately, Sport Psychology does not work that way. It’s a process to developmental skills and it takes time. It doesn’t happen day 1 to day 2
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Who uses Sports Psychology Consultants and Mental Performance Training?
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Professional sport teams.
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Minor league professional sport teams.
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Individual professional athletes in every sport.
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Olympic teams in every sport.
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National teams in every sport.
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University and college athletic departments.
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University and college athletic teams.
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Individual college athletes in every sport.
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Coaches in every sport.
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Parents in every sport.
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Individual recreational athletes in every sport.
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What Happens in a Sports Psychology/Mental Performance Training Session?
Sport psychology coaching is a process and a learning experience. It's an opportunity to grow as an athlete and as a person. It's an enlightening growth process where you will learn more about yourself as an athlete, and as a person.
In the sport psychology coaching session you will be able to:
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Discuss any performance issues that trouble you or concern you.
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Talk about any emotional obstacles holding you back.
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Explore any technical issues that affect your mental game.
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Engage in creative exploration of how to resolve these issues.
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Understand the mind-body connection and how to make it work for you.
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Gain additional perspectives on your sports experiences and challenges.
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Feel deeply listened to and respected as you discuss your problems.
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Assess your mental strengths and weaknesses.
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Devise a mental training plan to help you overcome mental weaknesses.
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Discover learning experiences and exercises to help you become self-aware.
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Share the kind of things and ask the kind of questions you would normally not be able to share with your friends, parents or coaches.
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Grow from being assigned mental training homework.
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Be assessed on a variety of mental measures to increase your awareness.
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Receive assistance in making better decisions about your issues.
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Benefit from a viewpoint other than your own.
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Make action plans to bring your goals to reality.
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Learn a wide variety of mental skills.
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See charts and illustrations to help you understand key concepts.
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Learn self-regulation skills for emotional, mental, and physical control.
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Ask any questions you may have about your sports experiences.
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Discuss sensitive issues in a safe, confidential environment.
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Gain the perspective from someone who has been a successful athlete, coach, and mental trainer.
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Set up weekly and monthly structures that help you stay accountable to your goals and dreams.
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Replace negative thought patterns with positive ones.
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Help you realize higher levels of confidence.
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Set goals that help you learn faster, perform better, and enjoy yourself more.
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Familiarize yourself with the zone and be able to enter it more often.
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Navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of change.
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Experience high-quality communication skills.
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Rehearse mental skills.
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Have a dialogue that helps you think and solve your own problems.
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Hear advice, suggestions, and counsel.
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Receive ongoing support and feedback.
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IS THERE A REGISTRATION FEE?
NO, you choose one of our monthly plans and only pay the price of that membership. No other fees involved.
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IS THERE A CONTRACT?
NO, Our programs are Month to Month membership. Members can cancel at anything.
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IS THERE A CANCELATION FEE?
NO, there is no cancelation fee. We want our members to be comfortable and not worry about being locked into a membership. We are so confident that you will be satisfied with our services, that we don’t need to charge extra fees. Members can cancel at any time with no extra fees involved.
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HOW DO I CANCEL MY MEMBERSHIP IF I DECIDE TO CANCEL?
There are 2 simple ways to cancel a membership. First, you can simply email us at mentalmastertraining@gmail.com and tell us you want to cancel. Or, you can simply remove your credit card information from your Mental Master App Profile under the “Edit Profile” link and the next time the automated billing goes to charge your account, it will fail and membership with automatically be canceled.
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What forms of payments do you accept?
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You can set up your payments online with a credit card or debit card.
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We also accept payments through Venmo or Paypal
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We will accept Checks for Public Speaking Events only.
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We do NOT accept personal checks for sessions or month memberships