Mental Training
There is a serenity that exists when we find the balance between the now and what’s to come.
Mental Performance Training
We offer a variety of training plans to strengthen mental performance for competitive youth athletes.
The mind is a muscle that needs to be exercised in order to execute the game plan. Our work levels the playing field for our clients making it easier to keep performance and excitement in their sport.
The name of our game is perspective, not maximization. We seek to keep athletes engaged in athletics for the long run. Check out our mental performance training packages below.
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These training sessions are designed for mental skill building in athletes between K-8th grade or beyond college athletics.
Liz helps athletes work through a number of challenges including the following:
performance anxiety
understanding identity outside of sports
managing stress and burnout
transition periods within sport (ie. injury, new team, new role)
external pressure
internal pressure and perfectionism
motivation and goal setting
other challenges
One-on-one coaching occurs weekly or bi-weekly and is offered both in person and online.
Due to NCAA recruiting restrictions, Liz is limited to working with athletes in K-8th grade or beyond college athletics. Athletes are not considered a PSA (prospective student-athlete) until the summer entering 9th grade.
Our Packages
This is a great package for athletes who have a sense of their struggle and are ready to attack a solution.
4 sessions must be completed within 6 weeks of purchase
This is package is best for athletes who are invested in building a wide variety of skillsets to manage their challenges.
6 sessions must be completed within 8 weeks of purchase
This package is for athletes who want to build a strong foundation and frame the next phase of the build.
8 sessions must be completed within 10 weeks of purchase
This session is designed to be used as an add-on or stand-alone training. This is most beneficial for existing clients who want to touch base or supplement their current package. As a stand-alone, this training grounds the athlete and resets focus.
1 session must be completed within 4 weeks of purchase
Trust the Process
Connect
Take time to genuinely hear what you have to share
Identify
Identify the controllables and the highest priority performance gap to tackle
Build
Utilize skill building exercises that are evidence-based and customized for each athlete
Translate
Move the skill building from a practice setting into the game. Translate how to apply the newly learned tool into daily life.
Your Questions, Answered
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Mental performance training adds another level of preparation to competition day. The learned cognitive skills help athletes to manage pressure, improve focus, build resiliency, and grow their confidence. These coping skills also support the post-game phase of competition day where high performers can find themselves hyper-critiquing their play.
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Mental training and therapy are two different modalities that share the goal of improving a client’s mental well-being. Therapy involves diagnosis and treatment whereas mental training is goal-oriented, cognitive skill development.
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Each session is 50 minutes long and includes a natural evolution of the following:
Check in and status update
Mental skill building
Practicing the new skill
Translating how and when to use the new skill in daily life
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Definitely.
Liz Sack uses the the Ecological Model, Systems Theory, and the Biopsychosocial Model from her social work degree to inform her practice. These models support the view that athletes are whole people separate from and intertwined with their sport identities.
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Of course not! Athletes of all sports benefit from mental performance training.
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Liz enjoys a collaborative approach to improving mental performance where the athlete takes the lead on their own development. Liz will provide thoughtful and honest coaching points that meet you where you are and set you in the direction of your goals.
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Mental performance training is for any athlete from any sport who wants to boost their game by prepping their brain. Mental training is limited to athletes in K-8th grade and beyond college athletics.