Small decisions, actions, and interactions often can have an enormous cumulative effect on our lives. For elite athletes the challenge is learning to control the whole of who they are in a way that results in optimal athletic performance. Understanding how their emotions impact their thoughts and how those thoughts impact their behaviors on the field is critical. When emotions, thoughts and actions are functioning in unison the result is better performance. Optimizing performance works best when an individual can make incremental changes in “real time” in their daily lives. The role of the performance psychologist is to help guide the athlete’s thinking, emotional regulation and psychophysiological reactions to sports and life. The athlete has access to the psychologist via phone, video call, email, or text. This approach allows the athlete to make necessary adjustments and changes in their life as needed and when needed. It provides a confidential and tailored experience that functions inside the athlete’s true daily experience.
Sample Performance Topics
Emotional regulation - Maximizing the control of emotions to translate them into peak performance.
From practice to game - Improving the translation of effort and achievement in practice to game settings.
Pressure management - Managing the stress and pressure of competition, elite play, team, school, and family expectations.
Getting out of your head - How to learn (re-learn) to play the game vs. overthinking the techniques.
Grit training - Teaching the psychological skills in resiliency to enhance and improve levels of grit.
Distraction management - Learning how to hyper focus to minimize the impact of any distraction.
The comeback - Learning how to bounce back from losses, injuries, underperformance.
Slump management - How to pull out of a slump and return to a high level of play.
Fear - Management of anxiety, stress and fear as it relates to game situations.
Team dynamics - How to manage conflict amongst players, coaches, and staff.
Burnout - How to prevent burnout, manage burnout, rise back up from burnout.
Let's Get Started: Contact Dr. Josh Klapow with Mental Drive
Joshua C. Klapow, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist, Behavioral Scientist and Performance Coach. Dr. Klapow works with elite athletes, athletic organizations, executives, investors, and the businesses they are associated with.
His coaching programs are designed specifically for this group of individuals and organizations who routinely are in high risk, high reward situations. Who must navigate public scrutiny, realistic or unrealistic external expectations, and must thrive consistently under pressure. Dr. Klapow’s approach to coaching is driven by a single, behavioral science theme; the delivery of any intervention must blend as seamlessly as possible with the cadence of a client’s routine. Timing is everything for optimal learning, improvement and change. His coaching process is therefore uniquely personalized and never templated.
Dr. Klapow is the founder of Mental Drive. Maximize your full potential with guidance from Dr. Klapow of MentalDrive.com, who provides mental and performance training for individuals, executives and athletes. Follow Dr. Klapow on Instagram @MentalDrive.
For information to schedule an interview, inquire about booking Dr. Klapow to speak with your group, or to schedule an individual coaching appointment please contact Dr. Klapow at askdrjoshk@gmail.com.
