Sports Psychology
Sports psychology, also described as performance psychology, is used to help a range of people to achieve a better, more consistent or more refined approach to achieving their goals.
Performance psychology can assist individuals ranging from professional athletes, coaches and trainers to amateur sportspersons and people engaged in recreational sports. Some sports require a larger degree of psychological components than others, however regardless of your chosen activity performance psychology can assist you in maximising your potential. Performance psychology can be beneficial for individual athletes or performers, teams, and coaching and management staff. Performance psychology is also able to extend to artists such as musicians to address the psychological features of performance.
Sports psychology is the study of how psychological factors can influence performance across all aspects of sport and performance, including training and adherence to training plans, achieving balanced nutrition, teamwork, self-discipline, addressing burnout, goal setting, endurance and motivation.
Our psychologists can help with many aspects of sport and performance, including:
- Maximising performance from a psychological perspective
- Maintaining consistency of performance
- Addressing performance anxiety and stress management
- Management of additional life stressors and anxiety
- Developing balanced coaching styles
- Breaking unhelpful patterns
- Team building and teamwork
- Communication skills and conflict resolution
- Dealing with sports injuries and with post-injury rehabilitation
- Post-performance debriefing
- Goal setting
- Balancing sport and family life, study or employment
- Career transitions
- Recovery
- Debriefing and program evaluation
- Health and wellness coaching
- Maintaining motivation
- Concentration and mental preparation
- Visualisation, imagery and mental rehearsal
At Strategic Psychology our psychologists will work with you to identify your goals to improve your performance. We will assist you with tailored psychological strategies specific to your needs to achieve and maintain these goals and to continue to improve your performance. We can also help you to balance competing demands to maximise your potential both on and off the sporting field.
Contact us at Strategic Psychology via phone, email or drop in to our office if you would like to make an appointment to see one of our psychologists to begin your journey to achieve a better and more consistent approach to achieving your goals.
No referral is needed to make an appointment.
