Sports Psychotherapy Center

 

Enhance your sports performance

Achieve your Personal Best

Have more fun!

 

 

When Do You Need Sports Psychotherapy?

  To enhance performance:

RedArrow.gif (1039 bytes)You know you have potential for excellence and you want to learn how your mind can help you achieve it.

RedArrow.gif (1039 bytes)You’ve heard of "The Zone" and you want to learn how to go there.

  To overcome mental obstacles:

RedArrow.gif (1039 bytes)You keep taking lessons and you just don’t seem to improve your game.

RedArrow.gif (1039 bytes)You worry a lot and lose confidence.

RedArrow.gif (1039 bytes)You feel sick, bored or angry about playing.

RedArrow.gif (1039 bytes)Your coach says you need to work on your attitude.

 

Our clients reach their goals quickly, utilizing solutions based on their unique needs.

Sports Psychotherapy Center Services:            BballPlayers.jpg (3345 bytes)

RedArrow.gif (1039 bytes)Individual performance counseling

            – in our office

            – where you practice or play

RedArrow.gif (1039 bytes)Customized team consultations

RedArrow.gif (1039 bytes)Seminars and Workshops for teams, coaches, parents, groups

RedArrow.gif (1039 bytes)Telephone or e-mail support

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"The more I played golf, the less I enjoyed it. With your help I learned to relax and love the game, and I shaved points off my score."

 

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"Every time I missed a shot I’d replay it in my head over and over , and I kept missing shots! You showed me how I can make an error and get over it.  Now I play each shot as it comes, and I win more of them."

Gymnast.jpg (2635 bytes)"As a runner/gymnast/skater/dancer, I had to keep going even when I was in pain.  After consulting you I learned to use the pain as motivation rather than let it defeat me."

 

BallPlayer.jpg (2210 bytes)"Our softball team always made it to the play-offs and then lost. You taught us how to concentrate on playing our personal best rather than on beating the other team: We won!"

 

About the Sports Psychotherapy Center:

RedArrow.gif (1039 bytes)We counsel teenagers and adults who participate in sports and want to achieve peak performance.

RedArrow.gif (1039 bytes)We identify how your mind influences your body.

RedArrow.gif (1039 bytes)Together we create strategies to build and strengthen a positive mental attitude.

RedArrow.gif (1039 bytes)You learn to overcome mental obstacles that interfere with your body doing what it already knows how to do.

          TennisBall.gif (1082 bytes)Articles From The Washington Post:

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A Winning Attitude

                    Stop That Racket!

When the Fun Goes Out of Games

                  Quiet Your Mind For  

Putting Your Head In the Game

                      Winning Tennis

Pulling on the Choke and Coming Up Clutch

 

 

Pressure Falls, Not Henman

 

 

Swimming Lessons: Hansen set for comeback

 

 

Physiological Changes Can Hinder Female Runners

Why a good night’s sleep is ‘the magic pill’ for athletic performance

Article From The New York Times:

Why Sports Parents Sometimes Behave So Badly

                  

                             

TennisBall.gif (1082 bytes) Articles by Sheila K. Rowny:

The Importance of the Mental Game in Sports 

If You Think About It, You Can't Do It 

Conquer the Fear Factor 

How To Be a Good Sports Parent

Listen to Sheila Rowny on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition:

           Mastering Golf Is A Game Of The Mind

 

 

     Sheila Rowny quoted in the Gazette

Sports Psychology, Sport Psychology, Sports Psychotherapy, Sport Psychotherapy

Learn techniques practiced by elite athletes.

 

Sports Psychotherapy Center

301-365-5823

Wyngate Medical Park, 5654 Shields Drive

Bethesda, MD  20817

- by appointment only -

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