Performance consulting
Adaptive capacity under pressure.
For elite athletes, artists, tactical professionals, and others whose work depends on reliable execution under pressure.
Performance reflects more than mindset or technique. The work may begin with a single moment, a missed putt or a frozen at-bat, but it looks at everything feeding that moment: body, attention, emotion, relationships, and context.
Common entry points
- Practice and preparation no longer transfer reliably into competition.
- After a mistake, the body and attention change; confidence drops and the next action becomes harder to trust.
- Yips, freezing, hesitation, or overcontrol make an automatic skill feel conscious and effortful.
- Medical clearance has arrived, but hesitation, guarding, or fear still constrains return to play.
- A transition, injury, loss, success, or change in role has altered identity and the relationship to performance.
- A recurring personal or relational pattern is entering the performance environment.
Four seasons as Director of Mental Performance for the Washington Nationals. Clients have included MLB All-Stars, World Series champions, a DP World Tour winner, and national team athletes.
What the work looks like
What happens off the field (sleep, relationships, identity, pressure at home, the demands of the season) shows up on it. Understanding both is essential to understanding performance and well-being.
Physiology is part of that picture. With your consent, data from devices such as WHOOP or Oura can show how sleep, recovery, and stress load shift. But data shows what changed. It rarely explains why.
Skills matter: routines, self-talk, breathing. They are part of this work. When a skill is known and still unavailable under pressure, the reason may sit deeper, in attention, emotion, identity, or a pattern that once protected you.
There is no fixed protocol. The work may draw on video, training and wearable data, a performance philosophy exercise, and, with your permission, conversations with coaches or medical staff. Frequency follows need and the season, and I attend practice or competition when it serves the work. What you share remains confidential, and what any team or coach receives is agreed in advance.
A composite example. A starting pitcher’s command fades after the third inning. His mechanics check out, and his recovery data show poor sleep before every start. The work addresses both: a pre-start routine and sleep plan, and a closer look at the pressure he carries into those innings and where it comes from.
Scope
Scope and availability
Consulting is non-clinical and available nationally and internationally through my independent practice. It is a private-pay service, not billed to insurance. Fees are discussed directly before work begins.
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