Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Adolescent/Teen
- Group
About My Clients
My primary area of expertise is working with athletes, coaches, and teams from youth to elite levels, helping individuals to refine the consistency of their performance and elevate their training outcomes.Specialty areas include: Mindfulness, Imagery/Visualization Training, Performance Psychology, Leadership, Mental Toughness, Building Confidence, Coping with Injury, Performance Anxiety, Mood Disorders, Eating Disorders, Relationship Concerns, and Identity Development.
My Background and Approach
Mountain Minded Performance Consulting was established to support the pursuit of excellence across all levels of performance experiences e.g., sport, school, music, medicine, and business. Through improving self-awareness, tolerance of discomfort, connection with others, decision making, and attentional focus, Mountain Minded Performance Consulting aligns with performers to allow them to better overcome their challenges and attain their desired experiences in sport and personal life. Dr. Dave’s approach to understanding and developing effective strategies to manage common psychological challenges in sport and beyond, has proven essential for the competitive success of athletes and performers in many other disciplines.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Becoming Mountain Minded represents a performance experience that is solidly grounded in the self while striving toward the summit of excellence. The ‘mountain’ provides a centering metaphor for the provision of performance psychology services within the dynamic, uncertain, and often daunting world of competition and performance. Many performers describe that their identity as an athlete is inextricable from their identity as a person. Therefore, the intellectual, social, and emotional functioning of the whole person must be accounted for to effectively support any performance concerns. We all experience good days and bad days in sport and in life, but the greatest performers within any discipline can trust and adjust their formulas for performance regardless of opponents or other constraining aspects of their environment.