SportS performance CLINIC
We work with elite athletes (e.g., high school, collegiate, Olympic, professional) and competitive teams to maximize performance through tailored interventions specific to athlete and team needs and goals. We build upon existing strengths to scaffold weaknesses and optimize performance within the context of life stress, high expectations, and challenging decision making.
Services within each package will be tailored to every program in order to meet specific goals and needs.
Pricing will be determined based on final service selection.
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We work directly with coaching staff, trainers, and administrators to identify, strategize, and support implementation of programmatic changes to enhance team functioning.
Services include:
Coach consultation related to team program planning and athlete mental/emotional periodization
Development of team values teaching coaching/training staff specific implementation techniques and value-based language/intervention
Coach consultation and training related to unexpected issues on team including injury/return from injury, player crisis, and player transitions
Coach consultation related to implementing sport psychology techniques including emotion regulation, attention/focus, and mindfulness strategies
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We work with coaching staff to identify specific athletes who will benefit from individual intervention to:
Determine mental readiness/fitness for competition/play
Enhance performance through sport psychology techniques
Manage yips
Manage injury recovery, return, burnout, and/or retirement
Identify emotional or mental barriers to performance
Identify other psychological or social-emotional problems that may be interfering with functioning
Balance athletics with outside life stressors or crisis
Prepare for major transitions or decision making including next steps, retirement, or career change
Leadership and team management training for emerging team leaders and/or captains
Services include:
Coach consultation
Athlete interview to identify problem areas, realistic goals, and plan
Individual athlete appointments to learn tailored cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and coping strategies
Provide recommendations to coaching staff to support athlete as necessary
*** Information shared by athlete within the appointment remains confidential unless the information is related to the individual's safety (e.g., concerns for suicide, homicide) or athlete consents to share information with coaching staff or others.
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We work with coaching staff to create a package that involves services from both the Team Performance and Athlete Performance packages. Additional services include:
Group-based meetings and interventions with the team
Implementing value systems, team-based coping strategies, culture changes, leadership, and other team interventions with the team in a group setting
Assisting with conflict management in a group setting
Presentations to parents, faculty, or other team supporters on specific educational topics related to sports neuropsychology and psychology
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We provide post-concussion evaluation, short-term treatment, and recommendations related to return-to-play/sport and return-to-learn.
Services include:
Baseline testing
Post-injury evaluation
Brief cognitive rehabilitation
Short-term intervention related to recovery, return from injury, or retirement
Traumatic brain injury and concussion specific brief neuropsychological evaluation
Return-to-Performance plans (Return-to-Play, Return-to-Learn)
Education Planning Meeting Attendance (e.g., 504 Plans, temporary educational support plans)
Concussion Education
*** Should findings from a brief post-injury neuropsychological evaluation indicate a comprehensive evaluation be recommended, the comprehensive evaluation would be outside of what is provided for in the package. A separate individual appointment would need to be scheduled through the concussion clinic.