Sports Psychology for Coaches and Athletes
Over the past 50 years, sport psychology has become one of the most popular fields of study within the discipline of psychology. The term sports psychologist began to be used to describe practitioners who studied child sports psychology and how to enhance their performance. Many sports psychology books have been written, including the best selling roadmap to zone that offers a sports psychology consultation in a book.

Developing Mental Toughness
In the early 1980’s, Jim Loehr published a ground-breaking book called Mental Toughness Training for Sports. It was the first the first book that discussed mental toughness techniques and ways of developing mental toughness. For years, Dr. Loehr wrote mental toughness articles in Tennis Magazine, which motivated others to apply his techniques to golf, gymnastics, figure skating, football, basketball, baseball, hockey, and now, to every activity that involves performance.

Dallas Life Coaching
Life coaching is relatively new field that combines many of the techniques used in sport psychology with Eastern philosophies in order to enhance the life experience of the average person. Centering through meditation–type techniques are often at the heart of the program that can also include time management, stress management, fitness programs, relationship consulting, communication training and optimism training. Dallas Life Coaching is on of several sub-divisions of mental Training Inc.

Mental Training for Athletes and Other Performers
Sports psychology is broad term used to define the division of psychology related to sports performance. Mental training is a much more accurate and specific term used to describe the techniques designed to enhance mental and emotional control. Mental training for athletes often includes goal setting, visualization, mental imagery, self-talk retraining, emotion control and in general, ways to establish true ideal thoughts, images and emotions to enhance performance.

Performance Anxiety
Performance anxiety is perhaps the most common problem experienced by athletes. The athlete feels anxiety as the competition is approaching, or during specific times during the competition, that produces mistakes and errors in judgment. Mental skills have been developed specifically for this condition. ‘Mental fun’ is the way athletes often describe how it feels during periods of high performance. The ‘zone’ is the opposite of performance anxiety and can be controlled by any athlete who has the discipline to learn the skills

Mental Health Disorders
If you have a mental health disorder that you think might require a mental health therapist, we can help guide you in the right direction. In order to improve the performance of athletes who do not have mental health disorders, we need to be able to determine whether a disorder exists in the first place. We can than refer a person with critical disorders (like schizophrenia, phobias, etc) to a specialist within the Texas mental health system. If the problem seems minor and more related to faulty thinking and bad habits, there are very effective solutions that can be taught.

Mental Strength Training
Mental strength training involves learning and practicing mental skills that strengthen the ability to control thoughts, emotions and performance. As an example, if there are certain thoughts that tend to cause nervousness, an experienced athlete will know what those thoughts are, be able to recognize them during competition, be able to get those thoughts out of the mind, and then insert the proper thoughts in. The result is an emotion more ideally suited to optimal performance.