Individual Sport Psychology Services

Individual services can be helpful for anyone with an interest in improving the mental aspects of their performance or learning more about sport psychology. A lot of the people I work with have goals that fall into one of two categories:

Performance

Many of the athletes who I work with first got in touch with me because they wanted to use sport psychology to improve their performance by developing confidence, consistency, focus, and resilience. Sometimes people seek out my services because of a particular mental block – issues with performance anxiety or difficulties with focus/motivation. But, you don’t need to be facing a challenge in order to benefit from integrating sport psychology into your approach to your sport.

Support

I also frequently work with athletes who are seeking support as they navigate challenges in their athletic life. For example, I have worked with athletes recovering from injury, making important career decisions, and contemplating retirement from sport.

Sport psychology isn’t just for athletes. The tools that help athletes perform have also been shown to be helpful for enhancing performance in other settings such as music, medicine, business, and first responders. Sport psychology can also be helpful for people who have roles supporting athletes; for example, coaches or parents who want to be mindful of their experiences with sport while also fostering development/growth in their athletes or children.

Our sessions are conversations, typically around 50-minutes in length that take place in my office, through video chat, or over the phone. Early meetings will typically focus on gathering information, getting to know each other, establishing goals, and making a plan to help you reach your goals.

In sessions I’ll ask you questions meant to help you reflect on your sport experiences, increase your self-awareness, and explore your goals. I will also share information about key ideas from sport psychology and help you develop skills and approaches for using these ideas to reach your goals. Typically, I will give you something to work on between sessions so that you continue to reflect on our conversations and have concrete ways of implementing our work into your game.

Session-by-session

Session-by-session means that we will schedule sessions one at a time. This approach is typically best for people with specific or shorter-term goals, or also for people who are new to sport psychology/working with me. It involves 50-minute sessions that will usually be weekly or bi-weekly, though sometimes longer gaps between sessions are also appropriate depending on where we are in our work. With this approach to scheduling, we’ll work together to decide the number and frequency of sessions you need to reach your goal.

Season-long consultations

With season-long consultations involve working together for an extended period of time (usually across the course of a season). Consultation packages include regularly scheduled meetings along with between-session communication (i.e. text message consultation) and opportunities for short notice scheduling. Season-long consultations are typically best for people who have worked with me before and are interested in using me for consistent, regular check-ins where we can focus on fully integrating sport psychology into their game.

If you aren’t sure what’s right for you, please contact me! I would be happy to speak with you more about what approach will be the best fit for your goals and resources.

For athletes seeking mental health support, it can often be beneficial to work with a therapist who has a strong understanding of how the demands and challenges of sport affect your overall mental health. My experience working with teams and athletes at all levels of competition has allowed me to gain a good understanding of the pressures of everything from youth/recreational, to high school, to professional and elite level sport.

I am a licensed psychologist trained in counseling psychology and have significant experience providing mental health and counseling support. I am licensed in New York State, and am therefore only able to provide psychotherapy for people who are in the state of New York.

If you would like to know more about the mental health and counseling services I offer, click here.

My fee for a 50-minute sport psychology session is $150.

The fee for season-long consultation varies based on needs of each individual – if you are interested in season-long consultations please get in touch, I will be able to give you accurate pricing information once I have a better idea about your goals/needs.

I accept payment via cash, check, or credit/debit card.

Sport psychology consultation is not reimbursable by health insurance.

If you are interested in working with me, please get in touch! You can do this either by giving me a call (518-423-5157), by sending me a text (same number), or sending me an e-mail message (andrew@vincentpsychology.com). Simply let me know your name, the best way to get in touch with you, and say that you are interested in individual sport psychology services and would like to set up a time for a consultation call.

The consultation call is completely free – it will give you a chance to ask any questions you may have and also give me a chance to better understand your goals so I can give you some information about what it might look like for us to work together.