Mental performance coaching will help your young athlete develop the mental and emotional strategies necessary to reach his or her athletic potential. Perhaps more importantly, mental performance coaching will give your child a competitive edge to succeed at the game of life.

Michael helps clients to develop a tailored approach based upon their needs and capabilities. He tries to help clients build a “toolbox” of skills and strategies that can be employed depending upon the challenges and circumstances they face in competition and everyday life.

Some of the mental performance tools that Michael shares with his clients include:

• Conscious breathing
• Constructive self-talk
• Goal-setting
• Imagery (i.e., visualization)
• Journaling
• Mindfulness meditation

Student-athletes face a variety of distractions and pressures that make it difficult to be their best every day: social media, telephones, comparing themselves to others, etc.

While these things may just seem normal to young people, parents understand that these sneaky roadblocks can hinder a young person’s ability to reach his or her full potential. The last thing that any parent wants is for their child to have regrets about their athletic career or their life.

Generally speaking, young people today have way more resources at their disposal than their parents’ did – trainers, nutritionists, physical therapists, technology tools. It can be very frustrating for parents and coaches when young athletes do not have the motivation, focus of attention, or confidence to get the most out of those resources.

Mental performance coaching offers young athletes and their families the opportunity to conquer distractions, pressures, and mental roadblocks in order to show up at their best every single day.

The path to establishing a mental performance coaching relationship has four clear and simple steps:

1. Schedule a free strategy call using one of the orange “Let’s Talk” buttons on this page.

2. Speak for no more than 30 minutes to determine if we are a fit to work together.

3. Establish a mutually agreed upon coaching agreement.

4. GET STARTED!

By simply having a conversation. My experience is that both of us will know pretty quickly in our first discussion whether or not mental performance coaching is a fit for your family. Ultimately, fit is determined by the family’s motivation and whether or not our respective values align. I can’t wait to learn more about you and your goals.

Truthfully, success looks different for every client because each person and situation is unique. That said, mental performance coaching helps young athletes to perceive greater control over their thoughts and emotions leading them to be more self-aware, resilient, focused, relaxed, and confident on and off the field.

I would never categorize an attempt to improve one’s self to ever be anything other than a success. Nevertheless, the greatest risk of not investing in mental performance coaching is regret that something might be “left on the table” in terms of achieving one’s potential.

If I could wave a magic wand, then the ideal result of our work would be helping families produce mature young adults that are ready to handle whatever comes at them in sports or life.

Hopefully, by now, it is clear what mental performance coaching is and what it can do to help your family. However, you may still not be ready to commit to the process just yet. 

To get a better sense of whether mental performance coaching makes sense for your family right now, you can download this Mental Performance Coaching Readiness Questionnaire.

 The questionnaire is brief and should only take a few minutes to complete.

Yes! You don’t need to be located in my area to take advantage of my mental performance coaching services. I have been coaching virtually via Zoom for many years and it is quite effective.