EXPERIENCING ISSUES WITH
Sports & performance excellence?
People in high-pressure roles, including athletes, musicians, dancers, and corporate leaders, face unique mental and emotional hurdles as they successfully navigate challenging endeavors. Sports and performance counseling strengthens the mental and emotional skills needed to improve performance and sustain long-term well-being.
If you or someone you know is in danger of hurting themselves or someone else — or if there’s any type of health emergency — please call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR
How issues with sports and performance excellence might show up
Everyone will meet challenge repeatedly along the way. Struggles with sports and performance excellence can show up in a variety of ways, affecting a person’s physical and mental health. These often show up when there’s an imbalance between training and recovery, nutrition, psychological pressures, or injuries. Let’s work together to identify obstacles and surpass those factors that impede progress.
Are you noticing slow progress or changes in the following areas?
- Less enthusiasm for what you typically love to do
- Slowed progress
- Disrupted sleep
- Difficulty recovering quickly from training or an injury
- Feeling more irritable
- Less satisfied with your body
- Changes in eating or appetite
Mental and emotional symptoms can disrupt progress in these ways:
- Low energy
- More worry
- Self-criticism
- Uncomfortable thoughts
- Difficulty concentrating
- Less interest in being with friends or family
- Change in appetite or eating
- Substance use or misuse
If you or someone you know is in danger of hurting themselves or someone else — or if there’s any type of health emergency — please call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department.
Build a capable foundation for success
Sports and performance skills training assists individuals in building capability and confidence.
Facilitate progress and joy by:
- Coping well under pressure.
- Employing patience for injury recovery.
- Learning effective team communication strategies.
- Improving focus and concentration.
- Establishing better performance consistency.
- Building better team dynamics, conflict resolution, identity, and life balance.
- Navigating transitions, burnout, and motivation.
- Restoring motivation and passion for what you do.
- Finding space and time for personal growth.
Build upon your strengths by:
- Defining success personally and uniquely.
- Understanding that training and talent development is a nonlinear journey.
- Recognizing that not all competitive endeavors are fair.
- Finding success in both wins and losses.
- Learning from lapses or errors to support future success.
We all benefit from better preparation, including:
- Youth athletes
- High school and collegiate athletes
- Elite and professional athletes
- Performing artists
- Coaches and teams
- Parents and grandparents
Establish a mindset for lasting growth
Rosecrance Therapies provides support for athletes, instrumentalists, singers, artists, dancers, students, and others who want to excel in both performance and life. We offer tools, structure, and insights to help individuals navigate the mental and emotional demands of high-level performance.
Support and learning opportunities are offered for teens and adults in Chicago and Champaign-Urbana, targeting performance excellence through individual and group consultation.
- Advanced planning and thorough preparation
- Getting adequate sleep
- Setting reasonable expectations
- Spending more time with people who care about you and people you enjoy
- Understanding and moving past distractions
- Coping with adversity
Intensive services and programming are available for more serious conditions if needed, including mood, anxiety, substance use, and eating disorders.
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
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Sports performance consultation focuses on the mental and emotional components necessary for elite performance such as sustained confidence, restored focus, and persistence under pressure. Like traditional psychotherapy, time and attention can be allocated to identifying and managing factors that may impede optimal performance. Targeted interventions are a vital part of this work.
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No. We enjoy working with individuals at every level, including youth, high school, college, elite, and professional. We provide support and consultation for coaches, teams administrators, sport or artistic judges and officials and more. Anyone seeking to improve their ability to cope well under stressful conditions may benefit from the Rosecrance Therapies approach and services.
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No. We also work with a variety of individuals who aspire to achieve more or more thoroughly enjoy their current activities amidst a complex and stressful culture: artists, dancers, musicians, academics, theater and performing artists, writers, graduate school students, and others.
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If a mental health condition meeting diagnostic criteria is identified, services may be covered by insurance. If no diagnosis is present, self-pay options are available. Our team of financial advisors can help navigate insurance and cost options.
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During your first session, we want to learn about you. We want to learn about your goals, strengths, aspirations, challenges, and any clinical mental health needs. Together, we will then create a personalized plan for moving forward based on your values, interests, needs, and performance-related goals.
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Services are provided by licensed psychiatrists, mental health counselors, and Certified Mental Performance Consultants (CMPCs) through organizations like the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP).