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Writer's pictureJosh Klapow

The Winning Edge - Could It Be Sports Psychology?

Updated: 6 days ago



Dr. Josh Klapow’s training as a clinical psychologist is critical to helping athletes reach peak performance and thrive in a highly competitive environment. Optimizing sports performance often means learning to navigate broader psychological challenges.




“Relaxing and dialing back intensity to allow the body and mind to leverage the skills an athlete has already developed is what opens the door for peak performance. When intensity is dialed up and back to the challenge of the situation, performance is optimized.”





Why Work with Mental Drive?


Dr. Josh encourages quick check-in sessions as well as virtual appointments to provide confidential and tailored guidance that functions inside the athlete’s true daily experience.


  • Tailored Guidance

  • Proven Expertise

  • Approachable and Available On-Demand



Dr. Josh Klapow Athletic Performance Coaching

Athletic Performance Coaching Tailored to Your Needs.


Session topics may include...


1.     Emotional Regulation: Maximizing the control of emotions to translate them into peak performance.


2.     From Practice to Game: Improving the translation of effort and achievement in practice to game settings.


3.     Pressure Management: Managing the stress and pressure of competition, elite play, team, school, and family expectations.


4.     Getting Out of Your Head: How to learn (re-learn) to play the game vs. overthinking the techniques.


5.     Grit training: Teaching the psychological skills in resiliency to enhance and improve levels of grit.


6.     Distraction Management: Learning how to hyper focus to minimize the impact of any distraction.


7.     The Comeback: Learning how to bounce back from losses, injuries, underperformance.


8.     Slump Management: How to pull out of a slump and return to a high level of play.


9.     Team dynamics: How to manage conflict amongst players, coaches, staff.


10.   Burnout: How to prevent, manage, and rise back up from burnout.






Dr. Josh Klapow shares the Mental Drive approach to sports performance coaching.




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