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I had some time recently to reflect on why I chose this path to be a mental performance coach and here, now, I’d like to share it with you (long piece that I hope our @dominican_aspp students and @hoopsminded athletes will enjoy). So often we do what we needed, to retroactively fill in the gaps that were left in our lived experience. When I was 9 years old my eyes first properly set eyes on the game of basketball and my jaw was on the floor with what I was seeing, for about

I'm grateful to be given the time and space to write about the work of Dr. Ken Ravizza from reading his chapter in Expert Approaches to Sport Psychology. As many of us know, Ken was a giant in our field and yet in person he was a cuddly teddy bear. A sweet man, who talked close, looked you square in the eyes, truly listened, and truly cared. He embodied the idea of the practitioner being a walking talking example of mental skills by the very way of his being. I had the cha

Certainly a hot button issue last March Madness now, wasn't it? I've spent the last few years researching the ways in which basketball coaches value - good, bad, or indifferent - emotional regulation as a psychological skill within their coaching practice. While some of the results have been surprising, for the most part, the coaches responses were what you'd expect: emotional regulation matters for a coach's performance. Emotional regulation in coaching is a multi-facet

As I continue my work in Mental Performance training, a word (or 500) regarding my philosophy of practice are in order. I am lucky to have come through great training via my Master's program in Sport Psychology at JFK University and now serving as Affiliate Faculty with Holy Names University. Part of my Master's degree training was really honing in on a philosophy that is authentic and which encapsulates who I am and how I believe the work of mental training can best be prac