Sports Performance Therapists in Chicago, IL

As a sports psychologist, I have a unique practice in that I specialize in working with athletes who have the desire to take their game to the next level. Being a competitive athlete helps me relate to other competitive people in sports or business. My primary focus is on confidence building and the elimination of performance anxiety. I use a 3 tiered approach to training: Perspective Training, Mental Skills Training, and Applied Settings (if applicable at a sporting location). I am the only professional to offer that kind of travel service. We also offer Coaching Certification Programs for those who are interested in teaching.

Sarah (she/her) is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) through the Association of Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC). As a health and wellness enthusiast, Sarah harnesses her passion to help each person reach their full potential in their craft and life. Sarah treats individuals with a wide variety of needs, including anxiety, life transitions, and sports performance concerns. She utilizes a non-judgmental perspective in both clinical and performance consulting. While exuding warmth and compassion, she helps clients persevere through adversities and celebrate triumphs.

From personal and professional experiences, I have learned that connection is foundational, acceptance is powerful, and change is possible. When we feel disconnected from ourselves, our relationships, or our community, life can feel distressing, isolating, and hopeless at times. My goal in therapy is to hold a warm, supportive, and non-judgmental space for acceptance, re-connection, and healing change to occur.

Dr. Melanie Jambrosic is a clinical and sports psychology post-doctoral fellow psychotherapist at New Insights Behavioral Services. She has years of experience providing therapy and neuropsychological assessment. She also founded Sport Psych Studio, a sports psychology consulting practice, and published the "Mindfulness Journaling Workbook" to help clients improve their mental health and performance. You can find details at www.sportpsychstudio.com. As a child, Dr. Jambrosic played sports to cope with stress and bond with her family. She quickly realized that the mental side was crucial to performance and well-being.

An athlete's life is different from other people. Does the stress of being an athlete sometimes makes you feel overwhelmed and alone? Are you expected to be almost perfect and fear you won't measure up and will get ridiculed? Are you afraid of not being "good enough" and coaches losing confidence in you? Does worrying about your performance leave you feeling overanxious? Do you have moments of overwhelming sadness but are afraid to let anyone know because you're an athlete and athletes can't show any signs of weakness, all the while feeling stressed out with no one to go to?

Offering a client-focused practice style that emphasizes the well-being and autonomy of patients in the areas of anxiety, depression and trauma. Offering Individual, group, and couples sessions, members of the BIPOC and Queer communities. Specializing in sport-focused performance interventions and life transition. As a therapist and mental health professional, I am dedicated to cultivating an inclusive and welcoming space for clients as I work with treating issues related to trauma, sports performance anxiety, crisis care, and family dysfunction that encompasses healing in the mind, body, and spirit.

As a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), I have grown passionate in treating individuals with a wide variety of needs, including anxiety, life transitions, and sports performance concerns. I truly believe together we can accomplish your therapeutic goals. Moreover, I specialize in working with athletes, children, adolescents, and young adults via in person or virtual sessions. I believe there is strength and growth as we work to overcome the challenges life throws us. As a member of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AAPS), I am dedicated to being a life time learner as the Sports Psychology field evolves.

I am a psychotherapist with extensive experience in using Hypnosis, NLP, EMDR and EFT for medical procedures, weight loss, anxiety reduction, essential tremor, and other issues. Through hypnosis, I can help you shift into a new way of thinking and being by deleting old messages and old programmed behaviors. We can replace old behaviors that no longer serve you with new thoughts and actions and that will improve the quality of your life and give you the peace and comfort. I am a coauthor of Patient Sedation Without Medication.

Psychotherapy is an opportunity to achieve transformation within ourselves. While it may be difficult to find the right therapist to work with, I find my warm, empathetic, friendly, straight-forward approach helps my clients work through issues to find peace and purpose in their lives, as we collaboratively find the right approach that works for you. I have expertise working with perinatal mood disordered clients, infertility challenges, all phases of pregnancy, including pre and post, and the loss of identity while in new parenting roles, for which I have completed certification training.

I offer an integration of psychotherapy and Yoga Therapy in tandem sessions. I am both a licensed health psychologist and a certified yoga therapist. My clients tend to be high functioning adults seeking private holistic therapy and pain relief. I assist with relationships, stress, back pain, neck pain, sports injuries, physical disabilities and medical conditions. Supported yoga postures, proper alignment, and longer holds facilitate deeper feeling, fuller opening, greater release. Yoga Therapy enhances rehabilitation of injuries naturally using gravity, tensegrity and breath to improve circulation and create more space in tight joints, relieving tension and fatigue, facilitating clarity and insight.

I approach therapy with positivity, mindfulness, humor and goals. I am a certified substance abuse counselor and an EMDR trained clinician. I also incorporate spirituality to holistically treat my clients mind, body and soul. My clinical skills are rooted in CBT, DBT, Psycho-dynamic and Motivational Interviewing.

My ideal client is anyone who wants to dive into their own story and go through the process of changing it for the better. It is my belief is that we are all capable of making positive change for ourselves! I have worked with clients both young and old, and have worked with couples and families. I have additional experience in counseling issues with addiction and substance abuse, careers and work, sports psychology , and counseling persons with disabilities.

Daily stressors are inevitable and it is essential to build coping strategies for how to manage stress and combat negative thinking patterns. Creating behavior changes is a focal point of psychotherapy and beneficial in wanting to create a sense of structure and consistency in one's relationships and overall life. My overall goal for each client is to work on obtaining balance within a healthy lifestyle. Through obtaining balance one's symptoms can lessen and each individual and/or couple can focus on the positive attributes of their life and move forward towards reaching their goals and the life worth living.

Sarah is a Licensed Mental Health Therapist at Millennium Counseling Center and received her MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Northwestern University. As a former collegiate athlete, Sarah understands how the mind and body connection is crucial in its ability to cope with life's stressors. Sarah’s theoretical orientation is grounded in a psychodynamic approach that promotes healing through past wounds so you can become the person you are meant to be. She believes it’s imperative to create a safe and therapeutically sound space through her compassionate demeanor. She promotes healing while nurturing growth in each client.

As both a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Mental Performance Consultant, I specialize in helping individuals overcome barriers that get in the way of living their most rich and meaningful lives and managing the intrusive and uncomfortable thoughts and feelings that tend to get in the way of their goals. I work with athletes, musicians, business professionals, or anyone looking to maximize their ability to perform in their desired space.

Performance anxiety and perfectionism can pull you into an unhelpful worry cycle, making you feel stuck with negative thoughts. When symptoms of anxiety become overwhelming, they disrupt emotional and physical wellbeing and interfere with relationships, self-confidence, and the ability to focus and perform your best. Overthinking, self-doubt and frequent worry can be distracting and make it harder to enjoy daily life. Using a collaborative, goal-oriented approach clients can overcome chronic worry and return to valued living. Learning how to get unstuck is part of the solution.

I believe that the most important part of a therapeutic relationship is creating a safe space for you to grow and cultivate the changes you would like to make in your life through a collaborative process. I have worked with individuals from diverse populations with various backgrounds who have experienced a wide range of mental health issues such as; anxiety, depression, and emotional dysregulation. I also have worked with clients on mental performance specific concerns such as performance anxiety and mental skills training.