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Digital Seminar

Sport & Performance Psychology for Clinicians

A Holistic Framework for Helping Athletes to CEOs Excel and Thrive

Speaker:
Carly Hunt, PhD
Duration:
Approx 6 hours
Copyright:
Jun 26, 2026
Product Code:
POS150691
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar

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Start offering performance psychology services in just one day of training!

Start Your Journey to Becoming a Sports and Performance Psychology Specialist in this One Day Training

From the court to the boardroom, athletes to executives …

… high performers need more than talent – they need mental strength.

And now more than ever, clients are seeking experts with sport and performance psychology training – because maximizing potential means tackling anxiety, burnout, and stress head-on.

This webinar shows you how.

You’ll join Dr. Carly Hunt, sport & health psychologist, author of Train Your Brain to Beat Chronic Pain: How to Harness the Power of the Mind-Body Connection, and former Division 1 Golfer who’s played in USGA and NCAA championships. An accomplished speaker, Dr. Hunt’s expertise has been trusted by top performers and organizations around the world including professional golfers, D1 university athletic programs, the United States Naval Academy and the John Hopkins School of Medicine.

With step-by-step instruction and case studies that make real life application feel simple, she’ll give you a completed toolkit to:

  • Harness the power of psychological skills training for increased well-being and performance
  • Apply Acceptance & Commitment Therapy techniques to help clients perform to their potential
  • Use positive psychology interventions to help counter negative inner talk
  • Help clients develop inner resources and resilience in the face of anxiety, stress, and high-demand situations

And much more …This program will expand your skillset and give you a way to add new high-demand services to your practice.

Don’t miss your chance to get trained in one of the fastest growing areas.

Purchase now.

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Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



* Credit Note - Self-Study CE Information Coming Soon

Continuing education credit information is coming soon for this non-interactive self-study package.

CE hours may be available for select professions, as listed in the target audience. Hours will be dependent on the actual recording time. Please check with your state licensing board or organization for specific requirements. 

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**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.



Speaker

Carly Hunt, PhD's Profile

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Dr. Carly Hunt, is a sport and health psychologist, author of Train Your Brain to Beat Chronic Pain: How to Harness the Power of the Mind-Body Connection, and former division 1 golfer. She helps teams, leaders, coaches, and organizations maximize their performance and well-being. Dr. Hunt received her PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Maryland, MA in Kinesiology from the University of Maryland, and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in biobehavioral pain research from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is the founder of Present Mind Consulting LLC, a practice focused on helping clients optimize health and performance, and Thinkbettergolf, a consulting practice that provides golf psychology services to dedicated players.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Carly Hunt maintains a private practice, is a consultant with The Mindside, LLC., and an advisor with Steel, LLC. She has has employment relationships with John Hopkins School of Medicine and Mindflow. She receives royalties as a published author. Carly Hunt receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Carly Hunt is a member of the United States Association for the Study of Pain, the International Association for the Study of Pain, and the APA Division 17 and 38.

 


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Objectives

  1. Identify risk and resilience factors that impact performance under pressure, including mental health concerns and socioenvironmental factors.
  2. Choose psychological skills training interventions that can regulate emotions to manage overwhelming feelings.
  3. Utilize acceptance-based interventions that can help clients expand their identity beyond sport.
  4. Use positive psychological interventions to help clients manage pressure.
  5. Examine ways of addressing physical health factors, including pain, in high performers.
  6. Develop a person-centered treatment plan that incorporates evidence-based strategies to help clients enhance their performance under pressure.

Outline

The Mind-Body Connection: How Psychosocial Factors Impact Performance

  • How to recognize psychology v situational risk factors
    • Fear of failure, performance anxiety, self-talk, and more
  • Resiliency factors: psychology v contextual, how to support both
    • Team culture, self-confidence, effective preparation, and more
  • The relationship between elite performance and psychomotor efficiency
  • “Choking” in performance, what it means and how it happens
  • Identify where clients are on the continuum of mental health and performance

Psychological Skills Training (PST) to Enhance Performance and Well-being in Athletes

  • Setting the stage for PST: Help clients understand their ideal mindset
  • Effective goal-setting including process and outcome goals
  • Use imagery to support performance
  • Build self-talk habits that promote best performance and resilience
  • The importance of deliberate practice
  • See competitive situations as a challenge as opposed to a threat
  • Emotion regulation practices to help manage overwhelming feelings
  • Help clients delineate what is within their control and what not
  • Demonstration/Guided Practice on Imagery Practice

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to Clarify Values & Guide Actions

  • Clarify clients’ values in athletic contexts as a compass to guide their actions
  • Teach the benefits of mindfulness and skills they can use right away
  • Explore willingness with clients
  • Develop a values-based action plan for competition with clients
  • Teach clients feeling and acting with confidence
  • Help clients expand their identity beyond sport through self-as-context
  • Live Demonstrations and Writing Exercise

Positive Psychology to Increase Enjoyment & Encourage a Growth Mindset

  • Gratitude practices to manage pressure and cultivate joy
  • Evidence journaling for shifting the negativity bias
  • Relate to mistakes using a growth mindset
  • Counsel athlete clients using a strengths-based approach
  • Positive Psychology Writing Exercise

Neuroscience, Pain & Physical Health

  • Be able to talk about pain, injury, and health behaviors
  • Easy-to-understand metaphors about pain for psychoeducation
  • Create holistic, biopsychosocial pain recovery plans
  • Foster client engagement in the recovery process

Performance Psychology for Non-Athlete Performers: From the C-Suite to the Symphony

  • Explore performance psychology across multiple contexts
  • Know your patient population and take a person-centered approach
  • The skills and dynamics associated with good leadership
  • Healthy habits and emotion regulation and responding instead of reacting
  • Help leaders hold people accountable while maintaining empathy and connection
  • Guided Practice

Social Factors in High-Performance Cultures

  • Traditional sports psychology versus contextual influences
  • Help clients recognize the impact of contextual and sociopolitical factors
  • Understand the coach-athlete relationship: touch coaching versus abuse
  • Help high-performers express their needs assertively

Helping Clients with Maladaptive Perfectionism and High Inner Criticism

  • Key self-compassion practices for perfectionism
  • How to use language consistent with high-performance cultures
  • Tackling social media use and tendency to compare oneself to others
  • Discussion: Managing the inner critic, what works?

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Hetlh Professionals

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