Sports Performance Counselling in Carshalton
Is it difficult for yourself to connect to your emotions and feelings? Sometimes it is complicated to find a link to enable us express freely. Unintentionally, we can create a habit in which we suppress, run away, deny or manipulate our emotions. It is normal to try to push away feelings of discomfort like stress, fear or pain; but there are tools you can learn to help you cope with these emotions in a healthy way. Instead of denying, distracting yourself, manipulating or disconnecting, you can accept, observe, acknowledge and connect deeply with your feelings.
Is it difficult for yourself to connect to your emotions and feelings? Sometimes it is complicated to find a link to enable us express freely. Unintentionally, we can create a habit in which we suppress, run away, deny or manipulate our emotions. It is normal to try to push away feelings of discomfort like stress, fear or pain; but there are tools you can learn to help you cope with these emotions in a healthy way. Instead of denying, distracting yourself, manipulating or disconnecting, you can accept, observe, acknowledge and connect deeply with your feelings.
As a specialised mental health professional, I help clients overcome trauma, anxiety, ADHD, and stress-related challenges. If you're feeling stuck, struggling with focus issues, or seeking to enhance personal performance, my approach centres on facilitating self-discovery through evidence-based therapies. I provide a supportive environment where solutions emerge from within, delivered conveniently via secure online platforms including MS Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet.
As a specialised mental health professional, I help clients overcome trauma, anxiety, ADHD, and stress-related challenges. If you're feeling stuck, struggling with focus issues, or seeking to enhance personal performance, my approach centres on facilitating self-discovery through evidence-based therapies. I provide a supportive environment where solutions emerge from within, delivered conveniently via secure online platforms including MS Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet.
I have worked over 25 years with adults, adolescents, couples, and families who feel stuck in repeating emotional or relational patterns shaped by trauma, loss, attachment wounds, anxiety, depression, or family conflict. Many struggle with relationships, identity, emotional regulation, or life transitions. Using an attachment based approach, informed by RECBT, systemic family therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and psychoanalytic thinking, I offer a consistent therapeutic relationship where clients build insight, process difficult experiences, strengthen resilience, and create healthier ways of relating to themselves and others.
I have worked over 25 years with adults, adolescents, couples, and families who feel stuck in repeating emotional or relational patterns shaped by trauma, loss, attachment wounds, anxiety, depression, or family conflict. Many struggle with relationships, identity, emotional regulation, or life transitions. Using an attachment based approach, informed by RECBT, systemic family therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and psychoanalytic thinking, I offer a consistent therapeutic relationship where clients build insight, process difficult experiences, strengthen resilience, and create healthier ways of relating to themselves and others.
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Are you looking for a counsellor in SW or Online? Many of the clients I work with are navigating anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, people-pleasing, or the impact of past trauma. Others come to therapy during a life transition—moving countries, changing careers, ending or starting relationships, or returning to themselves after a difficult period.
They often describe feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about who they are and what they want. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone.
Are you looking for a counsellor in SW or Online? Many of the clients I work with are navigating anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, people-pleasing, or the impact of past trauma. Others come to therapy during a life transition—moving countries, changing careers, ending or starting relationships, or returning to themselves after a difficult period.
They often describe feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about who they are and what they want. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone.
Sometimes we get stuck - in our sport and our lives. Maybe you are struggling with self esteem or performance anxiety, not sure what direction to take your career, injured or lacking motivation, facing a setback or caught up in difficult thoughts and feelings that stop you from performing to your best. Whether you are just starting out in life or an elite performer wanting to achieve the last 1%, you can learn practical and effective ways to get unstuck.
Sometimes we get stuck - in our sport and our lives. Maybe you are struggling with self esteem or performance anxiety, not sure what direction to take your career, injured or lacking motivation, facing a setback or caught up in difficult thoughts and feelings that stop you from performing to your best. Whether you are just starting out in life or an elite performer wanting to achieve the last 1%, you can learn practical and effective ways to get unstuck.
My name is Jessica & I’m UK-trained youth sport psychologist for athletes who care deeply & feel stuck - and for the parents watching it all from the side-lines. Lately sport might look like: post-performance tears or silence, training brilliance that disappears on competition day, one mistake becoming “I’m a failure,” and a home full of worry, second-guessing, and “What do we try next?”
If that sounds familiar, you’re exactly where you need to be. Make yourself comfortable and let me explain more about me and what my support can feel like.
My name is Jessica & I’m UK-trained youth sport psychologist for athletes who care deeply & feel stuck - and for the parents watching it all from the side-lines. Lately sport might look like: post-performance tears or silence, training brilliance that disappears on competition day, one mistake becoming “I’m a failure,” and a home full of worry, second-guessing, and “What do we try next?”
If that sounds familiar, you’re exactly where you need to be. Make yourself comfortable and let me explain more about me and what my support can feel like.
Are you and your partner caught in patterns that feel impossible to move away from? Repeated misunderstandings conflicts that never quite resolve, a growing sense of disconnection — or a crossroads where you're wondering whether to stay or go?
I'm a systemic psychotherapist and family therapist with over 10 years' post-qualifying experience in the NHS and a range of other clinical settings, with specialist training in RLT couples therapy. I work with couples where ways of coping that once made perfect sense — perhaps learned in childhood or earlier relationships — have become obstacles to the intimacy and connection they want now.
Are you and your partner caught in patterns that feel impossible to move away from? Repeated misunderstandings conflicts that never quite resolve, a growing sense of disconnection — or a crossroads where you're wondering whether to stay or go?
I'm a systemic psychotherapist and family therapist with over 10 years' post-qualifying experience in the NHS and a range of other clinical settings, with specialist training in RLT couples therapy. I work with couples where ways of coping that once made perfect sense — perhaps learned in childhood or earlier relationships — have become obstacles to the intimacy and connection they want now.
I work with people who feel stuck and want to create more movement in their life. Movement is the capacity to change. We are most alive when we are moving forward. It’s from this place that we can adapt, feel better and live with more creativity and impact. As a psychotherapist I support you to create the movement you need and bring about change in you life. This can include the processing of a difficult life event such as a divorce, the death of a loved one or a traumatic experience.
I work with people who feel stuck and want to create more movement in their life. Movement is the capacity to change. We are most alive when we are moving forward. It’s from this place that we can adapt, feel better and live with more creativity and impact. As a psychotherapist I support you to create the movement you need and bring about change in you life. This can include the processing of a difficult life event such as a divorce, the death of a loved one or a traumatic experience.
Whether you are an adolescent, adult, sports person or busy executive there are some common themes that resonate with my clients: Finding it hard to make decisions - fear of getting it wrong and constantly worrying/Being less tolerant, irritable over things that wouldn't normally bother you/Needing to do everything perfectly and setting high unrealistic expectations resulting in procrastination/Never feeling you have done enough/A very critical internal voice - Exhausting!
My integrative training across therapy and coaching enables me to help clients gain an understanding and awareness of what has shaped their thoughts and behaviors and to build strategies to move forward in a more resourceful and sustainable way.
Whether you are an adolescent, adult, sports person or busy executive there are some common themes that resonate with my clients: Finding it hard to make decisions - fear of getting it wrong and constantly worrying/Being less tolerant, irritable over things that wouldn't normally bother you/Needing to do everything perfectly and setting high unrealistic expectations resulting in procrastination/Never feeling you have done enough/A very critical internal voice - Exhausting!
My integrative training across therapy and coaching enables me to help clients gain an understanding and awareness of what has shaped their thoughts and behaviors and to build strategies to move forward in a more resourceful and sustainable way.
I help individuals, teams and organisations maximise their performance through applying simple strategies and techniques to deal with the growing demands of sport and business. Whether you’re looking to build confidence, overcome the fear of failure, or simply add 5% to your game, I’m here to help. All my work is tailored to the individuals needs so that you get the value and results you are looking for.
I help individuals, teams and organisations maximise their performance through applying simple strategies and techniques to deal with the growing demands of sport and business. Whether you’re looking to build confidence, overcome the fear of failure, or simply add 5% to your game, I’m here to help. All my work is tailored to the individuals needs so that you get the value and results you are looking for.
I have coached 5 Major winners in golf, the 2014 Ryder Cup team, over 30 PGA tour winners, World champions, Olympic champions, National and International Sports teams, and athletes from almost every sport.
I’m Dr. John Pates, a performance psychologist with 30+ years’ experience helping elite performers excel. I specialise in flow, mindset, and high-performance psychology, working with Major champions, Ryder Cup teams, Olympic athletes, leaders, and creatives to unlock clarity, confidence, and peak performance under pressure.
I have coached 5 Major winners in golf, the 2014 Ryder Cup team, over 30 PGA tour winners, World champions, Olympic champions, National and International Sports teams, and athletes from almost every sport.
I’m Dr. John Pates, a performance psychologist with 30+ years’ experience helping elite performers excel. I specialise in flow, mindset, and high-performance psychology, working with Major champions, Ryder Cup teams, Olympic athletes, leaders, and creatives to unlock clarity, confidence, and peak performance under pressure.
I’ve worked in performance all my life - as a Top 10 Music Recording Artist, Producer and Composer, as the Mental Wellbeing and Psychological Performance Consultant for Liverpool FC Women’s First Team, and as an EPL Premiership Football Academy Youth Development Coach - so I have extensive knowledge and skill in performing in the arts, media and sport at a high level.
I specialise in psychotherapy for performers in the arts and sport - on set, on tour or in need of face-to-face consultations, for issues such as anxiety, depression, stress, abuse, personal relationships and self-esteem.
Check out therapyforfootballers.
I’ve worked in performance all my life - as a Top 10 Music Recording Artist, Producer and Composer, as the Mental Wellbeing and Psychological Performance Consultant for Liverpool FC Women’s First Team, and as an EPL Premiership Football Academy Youth Development Coach - so I have extensive knowledge and skill in performing in the arts, media and sport at a high level.
I specialise in psychotherapy for performers in the arts and sport - on set, on tour or in need of face-to-face consultations, for issues such as anxiety, depression, stress, abuse, personal relationships and self-esteem.
Check out therapyforfootballers.
Sports expertise only helps to apply this general knowledge to specific issues.
As a psychologist specialising in performance, my approach is centred on the belief that every individual has the potential for growth, self-awareness, and fulfilment. I focus on creating a safe, empathetic environment where we can explore your thoughts and feelings, particularly as they relate to your well-being, and overall life balance. We will collaborate together to discover your needs and find ways to support them. Through this shared experience, I found clients experience more fulfillment in a way that is true to themselves.
Sports expertise only helps to apply this general knowledge to specific issues.
As a psychologist specialising in performance, my approach is centred on the belief that every individual has the potential for growth, self-awareness, and fulfilment. I focus on creating a safe, empathetic environment where we can explore your thoughts and feelings, particularly as they relate to your well-being, and overall life balance. We will collaborate together to discover your needs and find ways to support them. Through this shared experience, I found clients experience more fulfillment in a way that is true to themselves.
Helping Businesses Perform Under Pressure
For many years, I have worked with athletes, coaches, and performers to help them achieve consistent high-level performance in demanding environments. While the setting may be different, the psychological challenges faced by business leaders and teams are often remarkably similar.
Elite athletes must manage pressure, maintain focus, recover from setbacks, adapt to changing circumstances, and perform when the stakes are highest. The same principles apply in modern organisations, where leaders and employees face increasing demands, uncertainty, competition, and rapid change.
Helping Businesses Perform Under Pressure
For many years, I have worked with athletes, coaches, and performers to help them achieve consistent high-level performance in demanding environments. While the setting may be different, the psychological challenges faced by business leaders and teams are often remarkably similar.
Elite athletes must manage pressure, maintain focus, recover from setbacks, adapt to changing circumstances, and perform when the stakes are highest. The same principles apply in modern organisations, where leaders and employees face increasing demands, uncertainty, competition, and rapid change.
You're carrying more than most people realise. Maybe it's anxiety that shows up as perfectionism or restlessness, pressure to perform that never quite switches off, or a sense that despite everything you've achieved, something still feels missing. Perhaps relationships keep hitting the same wall, or you're trying to understand who you are beyond the role you play, as a parent, a professional, an athlete, or a man. Whatever brings you here, these feelings are real and they make sense. Therapy offers a space to slow down, make sense of what's happening, and start moving differently.
You're carrying more than most people realise. Maybe it's anxiety that shows up as perfectionism or restlessness, pressure to perform that never quite switches off, or a sense that despite everything you've achieved, something still feels missing. Perhaps relationships keep hitting the same wall, or you're trying to understand who you are beyond the role you play, as a parent, a professional, an athlete, or a man. Whatever brings you here, these feelings are real and they make sense. Therapy offers a space to slow down, make sense of what's happening, and start moving differently.
Many people find that pressure gets in the way of performing at their best. In key moments, self-doubt, overthinking, or strong emotions can take over. How we respond to pressure—shaped by self-belief—has a powerful impact on performance and wellbeing.
I help individuals and teams build self-belief and develop the psychological skills needed to perform under pressure. Our work focuses on emotional regulation, resilience, decision-making, and mental fitness, supporting you to think clearly and respond effectively when it matters most.
Many people find that pressure gets in the way of performing at their best. In key moments, self-doubt, overthinking, or strong emotions can take over. How we respond to pressure—shaped by self-belief—has a powerful impact on performance and wellbeing.
I help individuals and teams build self-belief and develop the psychological skills needed to perform under pressure. Our work focuses on emotional regulation, resilience, decision-making, and mental fitness, supporting you to think clearly and respond effectively when it matters most.
I am a Sport Psychologist and Performance Consultant who supports people of all ages and abilities to perform with confidence and consistency - in life and in sport. Whether you’re struggling with nerves, a lack of confidence, or finding it hard to bring your training form into competition, I can help you understand what's happening in your mind and develop practical tools to handle pressure.
Drawing on my background in elite sport and extensive experience working within sport, business and education, I work with you to discover real and meaningful ways to develop your mindset and become the person and performer you want to be.
I am a Sport Psychologist and Performance Consultant who supports people of all ages and abilities to perform with confidence and consistency - in life and in sport. Whether you’re struggling with nerves, a lack of confidence, or finding it hard to bring your training form into competition, I can help you understand what's happening in your mind and develop practical tools to handle pressure.
Drawing on my background in elite sport and extensive experience working within sport, business and education, I work with you to discover real and meaningful ways to develop your mindset and become the person and performer you want to be.
Is performance anxiety getting in the way of your sporting achievements? Perhaps you are able to perform in training, but find yourself overthinking when it comes to competition. This can be incredibly frustrating and upsetting. It sometimes feels like you are ‘getting in your own way’. I support clients struggling with performance anxiety to regain confidence, adjust thinking patterns and once again find enjoyment in their sport.
Is performance anxiety getting in the way of your sporting achievements? Perhaps you are able to perform in training, but find yourself overthinking when it comes to competition. This can be incredibly frustrating and upsetting. It sometimes feels like you are ‘getting in your own way’. I support clients struggling with performance anxiety to regain confidence, adjust thinking patterns and once again find enjoyment in their sport.
Hi, welcome! I'm Dr Zoi, founder of Creative Sport Mind. I provide performance psychology support to help you better understand yourself and reach your full potential. I have 8+ years of experience in educational, mental health and sporting environments. Areas of expertise: self-criticism, confidence, burnout, performance anxiety, perfectionism.
Hi, welcome! I'm Dr Zoi, founder of Creative Sport Mind. I provide performance psychology support to help you better understand yourself and reach your full potential. I have 8+ years of experience in educational, mental health and sporting environments. Areas of expertise: self-criticism, confidence, burnout, performance anxiety, perfectionism.
My studies in Sport Science (BSc) and Sport psychology (MSc) combined with my playing experiences at a high level across a number of sports (Football, Golf, Tennis, Cricket) place me in a good position to understand my clients needs.
I help individuals and teams to optimise their mental performance through coaching mental skills, strategies and techniques to imrpove their performance. Whether you're looking to combat performance anxiety or low confidence, or simply take your game to the next level, I can help you. My sessions focus on the needs of the individual. Common areas of work include performance anxiety, self-confidence, emotional control, pre-performance routines, attentional control, mindfulness training, leadership skills and imagery training.
My studies in Sport Science (BSc) and Sport psychology (MSc) combined with my playing experiences at a high level across a number of sports (Football, Golf, Tennis, Cricket) place me in a good position to understand my clients needs.
I help individuals and teams to optimise their mental performance through coaching mental skills, strategies and techniques to imrpove their performance. Whether you're looking to combat performance anxiety or low confidence, or simply take your game to the next level, I can help you. My sessions focus on the needs of the individual. Common areas of work include performance anxiety, self-confidence, emotional control, pre-performance routines, attentional control, mindfulness training, leadership skills and imagery training.
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Sports Performance Counsellors
How does sports psychology work?
Sports psychology helps athletes identify and overcome challenges, such as perfectionism or a fear of failure, and improve key mental skills, such as confidence or concentration. By applying principles and techniques from psychology, such as goal-setting, visualisation, positive self-talk, and emotion regulation, sports psychologists help athletes improve their performance on the field and their well-being overall.
How long does treatment for a sports-related problem take?
The duration of sports psychology treatment depends on the athlete’s individual challenges, goals, the complexity of the interventions used, and even on the length of the season. A performance anxiety issue may be treated with a short-term treatment, like Cognitive behavioural therapy, while issues such as depression, substance abuse, or severe anxiety may require longer-term treatments.
How effective is treatment for sports performance problems?
Sports psychology has been shown to improve performance and help athletes manage their emotions. Sports psychology can be effective in boosting performance, team dynamics, and injury rehabilitation. Over the past decade, nearly every professional sports team in every major sport has added a sports psychologist to its staff. Many colleges have done the same, and even some high school programs have done the same. Olympic hopefuls may consult with sports psychologists starting in elementary school.
What are the limitations of sports psychology?
Sports psychology may have several limitations. Every athlete is unique and may respond differently to sports psychology treatments. Therapy can help an athlete reach their potential; it can help athletes cope with injury and pain, but it cannot change the physical limitations that may be affecting an athlete’s performance.