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Performance & Mental Skills Training

Mental skills and performance training can encompass many different areas of our lives from athletic venues to performance arts, to the classroom and boardroom.

Each of these arenas require exceptional stress and anxiety management, high levels of confidence and the ability to be adaptable in the face of adversity. Mental skills training can facilitate development of an integrated mind and body to help you deliver your optimal performance when you need it most.

Mental Performance Consulting Rates

Individual Mental Skills Training:

Sessions are 50-55 minutes

Licensed Clinical Psychologist: $200/session*

Certified Mental Performance Consultant: $125/session*

Associate Mental Performance Consultant: $95/session*

*sliding scale may be available based on income

Team Performance & Mental Skills Training

Team Workshops*: (Minimum of 10 athletes)

1-hour + Q&A- $25/athlete:
- Includes educational component, skills to enhance performance and reduce impact of stress and anxiety, and introduction to visualization and relaxation.
2-hour + Q&A - $40/athlete
- Includes all elements of 1-hour workshop, plus team-building activity and goal-setting
  *Workshops can be modified to fit specific team needs.

Full Season Consultation Packages: Call or email to inquire

Workshop + Coach consultation + two additional follow-up sessions- $975

Full season Assistant Coach/Program Consultation- TBD

Dana Schmidt, Psy.D.

Licensed Clinical Psychologist

As a former NCAA Division 1 collegiate springboard diver, I have a strong foundational understanding of the mental fortitude required to achieve optimal performance in sport. While in college, I began coaching springboard diving and learned how fear impacts performance and motivation. I have taken several courses in sports psychology and mental performance skills, and I have been fortunate to gain most of my expertise in practice.

Areas of expertise:

Individual sport athletes (i.e. gymnastics, diving, tennis, track athletes, etc.)
Professionals in high pressure positions
- executives, medical/surgical professionals, professional performers

Experience:

Performance consultant for Naval Medical Center San Diego's medical residency and fellowship programs providing individual performance and group consultation workshops for various specialties including internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, ophthalmology surgery
Individual performance sessions for high school athletes and company executives.
Facilitated performance workshops for high school and club sports teams

Mark Schmidt, MA, CMPC (Candidate)

Director of Mental Performance

I've been a lifelong multi-sport athlete and avid sports fan. I've competed in and coached high school and college sports for almost 30 years, and was first exposed to the principles of sport psychology and mental skills training while a collegiate swimmer. I've since incorporated those principles in a very successful coaching career and my work with hundreds of student-athletes through the years. Earning my MA in Sports and Performance Psychology and my CMPC is the culmination of that journey, and my educational and athletic background makes me uniquely qualified in this role.