MEET THE TEAM

Individual services provide an opportunity to maximize personal strengths, explore factors that may be preventing student athletes from reaching their potential athletically, academically or personally, and developing skills to thrive in life. Individual services are confidential. Presenting concerns occur across a continuum including, but not limited to:

Team sessions are designed to address the unique needs of the participating team and to provide memorable active learning experiences to build team unity, reinforce team mission and vision, clarify team goals, roles, and responsibilities, and teach mental skills to improve team and individual performance. Team consultations are ideally created in collaboration with coaches and staff. Sample topics include, but are not limited to:

• What is Sport Psychology?
• Achieving a championship mindset
• Maintaining focus and composure
• Building confidence
• Goal Achievement
• Optimizing self-talk
• Effective communication
• Mindfulness/Staying present
• Improving team dynamics
• Effective imagery and visualization
• Leadership Development
• Stress Management

Staff consultation is available for any DAPER staff or campus partner with a sport psychologist. While we provide individual counseling/psychotherapy to varsity student-athletes, we frequently consult with coaches, administrators, athletic trainers, physical therapists, physicians, and sports performance and nutrition staff. We strive to collaborate with others to support DAPER staff, coaches, teams, and student-athletes to thrive and succeed at Stanford. Topics include, but are not limited to, how to respond to a challenging situation, improving team dynamics, enhancing leadership, or effective communication.

Stanford Sport Psychology team members engage in outreach and consultation to student-athletes, coaches, and staff using targeted prevention and early intervention strategies. These strategies may include, but are not limited to, providing education, programs, workshops, presentations, or general consultation to student-athletes and staff based on relevant needs (e.g. pre-/post-surgery consults, Performance & Resilience series, mental health screenings and education, transition in/out of sport, etc.).

• Sleep Handout
• Welcome to the Farm
• Transition Out of Sport
• Stress Related Growth (Injury Recovery)
• Strategies for Well-Being
• Coping with Grief/Loss
• Helping a Friend/Teammate
• Coach/ Staff Reference Sheet

• Well-Being @ Stanford
• The Red Folder
• Stanford's Confidential Support Team 
• CAPS

• AAPI Mental Health Resources
• Black Mental Health Resources
• BIPOC Mental Health Resources
• Microintervention Tool Kit

• NCAA Sport Science Institute -Mental Health
• Association for Applied Sport Psychology
• American Psychological Association, Society for Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology
• The Player's Tribune
• UNIT3D: Conversations for Student-Athletes Podcast