Sport / Fitness Psychology

The COVID-19 crisis has sidelined millions of athletes, from professionals to high school students to weekend warriors. Athletes have lost their primary source of mental wellness, their ... Read More

According to a report published by Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality, adults view black girls as young as 5 years old as less innocent and more adult-like than white girls ... Read More

As the National Football League (NFL) gears up for the start of its regular season this week, policies and practices related to mental health are underway to help the league, its players, ... Read More

Olympic athletes train for years to reach their common goal: a medal at the Olympics. They push their bodies to the edge of human capability to stand on a podium and collect a gold, silver, ... Read More

There is a lot of attention being paid to bullying. I see many bullying prevention programs in media reports, research studies, and in efforts in various places to prevent and reduce the ... Read More

The Olympics are at the forefront of many people’s minds right now, but lingering behind the competition is a darker issue. Many professional athletes are currently struggling with ... Read More

With all of the headlines in recent news about ongoing wars, torture of animals, mass shootings, economic crisis, environmental crisis, and football coach predators and cover ups, I’d ... Read More

Beauty Is Embarrassing. This is the title of a film I saw recently at the Cleveland International Film Festival. The subject of the film is an artist, Wayne White, whose message is stay ... Read More

Some would say the winter solstice is a moment of equality, in which there is equal light and equal dark. It is also a moment of reversal. The seasonal significance of the winter solstice ... Read More

Ultra Emotion-athon As I practice various mental skills, doing sport psychological experiments, I do my best to practice what I “preach” to clients in pushing toward potential. In the ... Read More

With all of the technical gadgets available for monitoring information pertaining to running and exercise, one can get very “scientific” about training and performance. But despite ... Read More

A growing, though rarely discussed, trend in professional baseball is the use of psychotherapy to address the mental health elements of the game. Recently, the Minneapolis Star Tribune ... Read More