EXPERIENCING ISSUES WITH
Sports & performance psychology?
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 psychology services strengthen 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 sport and performance psychology issues may present:
Even the most talented performers experience stress and adversity on their path to excellence. Performance issues may present in a variety of ways, affecting a person’s physical and mental health. These often occur when there are changes in performance demands, levels of competition, injuries, emotional burnout, and/or life transitions. Let’s work together to identify performance barriers and get your brain working for you.
Are you noticing slowed progress or noticing changes in the following areas?
- Less enthusiasm for what you typically love to do
- Performance plateaus
- Avoidance of your sport or performance environment
- Increased pre-performance anxiety
- Emotional burnout
- Injury and rehabilitation
- Difficulty recovering quickly from training or an injury
- Disrupted sleep
Mental and emotional symptoms can disrupt progress in these ways:
- Increased irritability or depression
- Low energy, motivation, & satisfaction in sport
- More worry, rumination, and self-criticism
- Perfectionism
- Difficulty concentrating
- Trouble regulating emotions
- 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 resilient mindset for lasting success
Sport & performance excellence services help build a sense of competence, autonomy, and confidence.
We facilitate progress through:
- Improving focus and self-awareness.
- Building resiliency for when adversity occurs.
- Establishing consistency through intention and behavioral routines.
- Reconnecting with your WHY.
- Identity exploration and finding balance in life.
- Values clarification.
- Helping navigate life transitions and retirement.
- Coming to acceptance of negative outcomes like injuries, life events, and losses.
- Learning effective team communication strategies.
- Helping individuals and teams manage interpersonal conflict.
We build upon your strengths by:
- Defining success personally and uniquely.
- Understanding that performance enhancement is a nonlinear journey.
- Finding success in both wins and losses.
- Recognizing that not all competitive endeavors are fair.
- Learning from lapses or errors to support future success.
We all benefit from performance excellence training, including:
- Youth and high school athletes
- Collegiate athletes
- Elite and professional athletes
- Performing artists of all levels
- Parents of athletes
- Coaches, referees, & other support staff in sport
Establish a mindset for lasting growth
Rosecrance Therapies provides mental health treatment and performance excellence training for athletes, musicians, singers, artists, dancers, students, and professionals 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 elite performance.
Support and learning opportunities are offered for teens and adults in Chicago and Champaign-Urbana, targeting performance excellence through individual and group consultation.
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
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Performance excellence training helps athletes use psychology principles and the brain to enhance their performance in the area they care about most. Individual therapy for athletes and performers helps those with clinical diagnoses get the mental healthcare they need to get back to their baseline selves.
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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).