Junior Athletes & Parents

Mental skills training has a reputation and many labels – sport psychology, coaching, therapy, etc. Why? Is there still a stigma about mental training? In fact, developing a mental skills [...]

Has cheating in tennis reached an all-time high? This topic can be a difficult thing to deal with when you are on the other side of the net.

Your coaching mindset, whether it is ego mindset or mastery mindset, is the #1 thing that can get you and your athletes where you want to be, or not. You just have to decide where you get the [...]

Research shows that using exercise punishment to motivate young athletes can impact them negatively, short and long term. The topic of punitive coaching is hot right now.

After years of seeing the struggle and challenges youth sports parents deal with to keep up in the world of their kids’ sports careers, something needs to change. And, the kids are really [...]

In my daily appointments and interactions with youth, I’ve seen the rise of anxiety, lack of confidence, and perfectionism skyrocket for adolescents. It happens when there is a lot of pressure to [...]

Around 70 percent of kids in the United States stop playing organized sports by the age of 13 because “it’s just not fun anymore” says the Washington Post.* Remember those days when your kid was [...]

Many years ago when I first started doing this work I didn’t think I wanted to work with kids. However, they have taught me to be more flexible, grow, and overall better adapt. Currently, my [...]

I’ve written several articles on burnout and it seems to be one of my top viewed articles. Why is that? I think it’s because the pressure to perform particularly at a young age [...]

These can be part of the same thing. Not always but it seems to be quite common that a client initially presents with anxiety which leads to burnout which leads to a form of PTSD. This is [...]