The Benefits of In-Sport Counselling
Hello everyone,
It is Shailyn Waites, a former university athlete and now therapist, checking in with a weekly blog post to discuss the importance of sports counselling for athletes. Let’s break down key points of how counselling can improve your athletic performance and enhance your overall well-being.
1. Elevating Mental Resilience through Counselling
Individualized counselling sessions that focus on your emotions and experiences in sports, and the challenges you are facing. Learn how to process your emotions, develop healthy coping skills, overcome anxiety, conquer self-doubt, and effectively manage stressors unique to the competitive sports arena.
2. Managing Performance Pressures and Expectations
As an athlete, you receive pressure from yourself, coaches, parents, sponsors, and even other teammates. That is a whole lot of pressure! In counselling, you will delve into strategies for navigating the pressures and expectations in competitive sports. Counselling offers tools to manage performance stress, fostering a healthier mindset for achieving success.
3. Balancing School & Sports & Life
Being an athlete while managing school is working more hours than a full-time job causing “life” to go on the back burner. Therapy sessions focus on balancing the demands of academics, sports, and personal life with tailored strategies to ensure a sustainable life blend.
4. Mental Health Challenges Athletes Face
From low self-esteem to anxiety to disordered eating, depression, body dysmorphia, and eating disorders, and many more challenges that arise from sport. Address mental health challenges head-on with counselling to be able to work through these challenges in a safe space.
“We have to put the person before the student and the athlete, otherwise we run the risk of losing all three.”
– Dr. Candice Williams
5. Transitioning Like a Pro
Delve into the detailed playbook that counselling offers for a seamless transition out of sports. Understand how counselling provides tailored guidance to maintain a robust self-identity beyond athletics and sets the stage for establishing new personal goals that align with your post-sports journey.
Whether you’re preparing for a crucial match or navigating life post-athletics, counselling stands as a valuable ally for achieving success.
If you are located in British Columbia or Ontario Canada and want to pursue counselling as an athlete in sport or transitioning out of your sport, click here to BOOK NOW: thesolaceflow.janeapp.com/
Shailyn Waites, RSW, MSW, EMDR
The Solace Flow
