What is Mental Performance Consulting?

Mental Performance Consultants help you elevate your performance and overall well-being by utilizing evidence-based approaches, methods, and interventions to address barriers to performance from a mental perspective so you can reach your greatest potential.

A common misconception in the field of Sport Psychology or Mental Performance Consulting is that Certified Mental Performance Consultants (CMPCs) work exclusively to help elite athletes win. In reality, CMPCs support people at every age and across a variety of performance contexts including sport, exercise, military, performing arts, business, and emergency services like police personnel, firefighters, or paramedics.

Mental Performance Consulting is an interdisciplinary practice that applies knowledge and interventions from psychology, exercise science, kinesiology, and more to address barriers to performance including struggles with motivation, confidence, resilience, communication, leadership, conflict resolution, player-coach relationships, teamwork, and self-regulation of stress, thoughts, emotions, and behaviour.

By working with our Certified Mental Performance Consultants in Kitchener Waterloo, you can address these struggles by developing mental and emotional skills, techniques, attitudes, perspectives, and processes that will lead to performance enhancement and positive personal growth.

What’s the difference between Mental Performance Consulting and Counselling or Psychotherapy?

While there is overlap in the application of theoretical knowledge and therapy techniques used in these two services, the key difference between the scope of practice for these services is determined by the goals of the client and focus of the session.

In Counselling or Psychotherapy, the focus of the session is to work collaboratively with you to ease symptoms of mental health disorders that significantly impair your life functioning by using evidence-based approaches, methods, and interventions from the field of clinical psychology.

Mental Performance Consulting sessions focus on enhancing performance as it relates to a specific task or sport by utilizing evidence-based approaches, methods, and interventions from the fields of psychology, exercise science, kinesiology, and more.

To learn more about which service may be the right fit for you, book your first free appointment today!

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