Sports counseling can help people increase their athletic, personal, and academic potential. Movement and sports represent an integral part of our identity across our life span. The lessons, strategies, and problem-solving approaches that people learn when being engaged in athletic pursuits easily transfer to life at large. Rather than focusing single-mindedly on game-time performance, counseling takes a holistic point of view and considers individual’s overall mental well-being and psycho-emotional needs.
Benefits of working with a Sport psychologist:
- Building and sustaining ideal level of motivation
- Helping to achieve optimum level of self-Confidence
- Enhancing Focus and concentration while dealing with distractions
- Inculcating positivity and reducing negative self talk
- Managing competitive stress and anxiety
- Building commitment towards one’s sport and setting goals
- Improving Team building and communication
- Replacing fear of failure with desire to succeed
- Managing and channelizing anger and negative emotions
- Dealing with competitive pressure
- Working on positive sport parenting
My work as a sports psychologist involves:
- Evaluating athlete’s sport performance and behavior.
- Helping athlete’s to overcome difficulties and improve performances.
- Coordinating with Nutritionists, Coaches and Physiologists to support athlete in realizing his/her potential.
- Assisted athletes to cope with psychological demands of sport.
- Psychological preparation to face pre-competition and post-competition conditions.
- Advising athlete on dealing with setbacks and mental stress.
- Working with a broad range of athletes including individual athletes, teams, coaches and referees, from amateur to elite professional level across a wide range of sporting disciplines;
- Developing tailored interventions to assist athletes in preparation for competition and to deal with the psychological demands of the sport;
- Equipping athletes with mental strategies to cope with, and overcome, setbacks or injuries;
- Advising coaches how to improve squad cohesion or communication;
- Delivering group workshops on areas such as self-analysis of performance or techniques to develop mental skills within the sport.
Working with individuals:
- Sessions are one-on-one (on and off field)
- Personalized sessions according to athlete’s needs
- Baseline Assessment of Athlete’s – Mental Skills Profile (MSP)
- Holistic and Educative Approach (Developing Life Skills)
- Collaboration of coaches and family members (if required)
- Self analysis and Video analysis
- Post competition recovery and maintenance
- Injury Rehabilitation