Mind and Matter Performance Training
Looking to optimize your sports or artistic performance?
Whether you're striving for excellence on the field, the stage, or the screen, your mental and emotional well-being is just as crucial as your physical and creative prowess. Dr. Sierra’s sports/performance psychology services are designed to help you achieve optimal performance and maintain a balanced, healthy lifestyle.
Dr. Sierra understands the unique pressures faced by athletes and performing artists, such as the pressure to win, to succeed, to land the audition and to get the part, to never misstep, to never make a mistake, to never show pain. Dr. Sierra’s specialized training and unique approach to sports and performance psychology will help you unlock your full potential and peak performance. She works routinely with athletes and performers who struggle with:
Low self-confidence
High expectations
Breakdowns of trust in self and others (e.g., team, cast, director, coach)
Fear of failure
Being overly self-critical
Perfectionism
Limited mental and emotional resiliency
If these struggles sound familiar, contact Dr. Sierra now! Therapy or targeted mental training can help you:
Improving focus, attention and concentration;
Reducing stress;
Inducing a state of calm;
Improving memory;
Increasing pain tolerance;
Recognizing, regulating, and accepting strong emotions;
Enhancing mental and emotional flexibility
Cultivating greater kindness and compassion
Decreasing avoidance and escape behaviors
and Decreasing or even eliminating unhealthy levels of anxiety and/or depression.
Can Therapy Really Help?
Yes it can!! Read below to see how Dr. Sierra’s unique approach to sports and performance training can create real change for you!
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Sports/performance therapy will help you identify or refine and prioritize your goals as an athlete or performing artist. What matters most to you? Therapy starts with a comprehensive assessment to evaluate your mental, emotional, behavioral, relational, and physical strengths and challenges. With this information, Dr. Sierra helps you create a roadmap to your dreams!
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Just as you must train for and practice your sport or your craft regularly, you must also practice building the mental toughness and emotional resiliency to play or perform with focus, with heart, and without fear. Dr. Sierra will teach you specific exercises and strategies for building these skills. You will practice both in session and in between sessions.
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As you practice the skills to improve your mental game, you will see your capacities grow, not only in your sport or craft, but in your daily life. Therapy provides a safe space to not only practice useful skills, but to discuss your personal problems, challenges, dreams, fears and conflicts. Engaging with your inner world in this way will help you become more focused, more resilient, and more effective in school, at work, in your relationships!