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Interview with Counselling Psychologist Dr Natalie Raiher
When we know athletes are about to have a tricky time; a training camp they need to go on with team mates they dislike, a really hard period of training focusing on a skill they are currently weak in, the biggest competition of their year that is fuelled with...
Advice from Dr Tim Rogers on how athletes can cope during the Coronavirus changes
I remember interviewing Dame Sarah Storey and asking her if she’d ever used Imagery. She said she uses it all the time; but whilst on the bike, visualising the events going on around her. Never lying on a dusty floor being talked at. She couldn’t see the value in...
Racing interrupted…
A virus we hadn’t even heard of when we entered many of this season’s races and competitions may now cancel many of them. We might feel upset and stressed because everything we have been working towards feels uncertain and also feel guilty for feeling that way as we...
Project Paris…
I ran my first marathon in 2004. I’ve run one most years since then. But I’m not convinced I’ve ever really tried to run one properly. In fact, I’m pretty sure I haven’t because while being a sport psychologist is fantastic for helping you understand how you can...
Press release: Sporting Brain Box
Athletes spend many hours each week on their physical fitness – now they have an easy way to also train their brains to be mentally fit. The Sporting Brain Box is a full mental skills toolkit which will allow athletes at all levels to benefit from the techniques...
Sport Psychology and Performance in Mind
These Q&As with Dr Josephine Perry, Director of Performance in Mind, may help you to decide if sport and performance psychology could help you... What is sports psychology? Sports psychology developed from traditional psychology but incorporates elements of...