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The Top Mental Performance Coaches

4th January 2024

A mental performance coach is a professional who helps athletes and other performers improve their mental game. Mental game refers to the inner game that takes place in our heads, including our thoughts, emotions, and beliefs.

Just as we need to physically train our bodies to perform at our best, we also need to train our minds.

Each mental performance coach, with their unique style, tries to help the clients and asked them what’s extraordinary about their coaching and what has endorsed their massive success.

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In Brief : The Top Mental Performance Coaches

Emily – Emily, a former national women’s rowing team member, combines her Master’s in Counseling with her sport experience to offer mental skills training for athletes at all levels, optimizing their performance.
Jaclyn Ellis – Jaclyn Ellis, a certified Mental Game Coaching Professional, draws from her background in competitive sports and show choir to enhance performance and enjoyment for athletes, coaches, and parents, utilizing her expertise in mental performance coaching.
Dr. Patrick Cohn – Dr. Patrick Cohn, a lifelong athlete and mental game coach, leverages his passion for sports psychology and extensive athletic background to help athletes understand how beliefs and mindsets influence performance, drawing from his research and studies in sports psychology.
Alan Masline – Alan Masline, founder of Dark Horse MPC, brings a wealth of experience in mental performance coaching, combining his education in psychology with his work with various sports teams and organizations to help athletes unlock their full potential and excel in their respective sports.
Amanda Jones – Amanda Jones, with dual Master’s Degrees in Human Performance and Sports Psychology, specializes in breaking down mental barriers and unlocking potential for clients across business, nonprofit, and athletic sectors, leveraging her expertise to facilitate personal and professional growth.

Emily

Emily graduated with her Master’s in Counseling with a concentration in Sport Psychology from Boston University in 2010. In 2012, she was invited to train with the national women’s rowing team. From that point until her retirement in 2021, Emily represented the United States at numerous international regattas, winning many of them.

After working a year at Louisiana Tech University as the mental performance coach, she began her own practice. Emily has worked with a variety of sports, ages, and skill levels. She combines her education and sport experience to provide her clients with mental skills to optimize their performance.

Jaclyn Ellis

Jaclyn Ellis, M.S., MGCP, is a mental performance coach for Peak Performance Sports. She earned a Master’s degree from Illinois State University. Her passion is working with athletes, coaches, and parents to enhance both performance and enjoyment of sport. She has a background in competitive sports including soccer, volleyball, and tennis.

She also performed in advanced show choirs for many years. Additionally, she was a competitive youth head soccer coach in Bloomington, IL. Mental Performance Coach for Athlete Jaclyn is a certified Mental Game Coaching Professional (MGCP) with Peak Performance Sports. She is also completing the requirements to be a Certified Mental Performance Consultant through AASP. She is a professional member of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP).

Dr. Patrick Cohn

Mental Performance Coach Dr. Patrick Cohn has been an athlete his entire life and now a mental game coach. He understands how beliefs, attitudes, and mindsets influence performance. Dr. Cohn’s passion for sports and sports psychology started early in life and continued to grow as he participated in sports such as football, hockey, baseball, lacrosse, racquetball, and golf.

After competing in sports through undergraduate school, Dr. Cohn went on to study and research sports psychology CSUF with Dr. Ken Ravizza where he earned a masters in sports psychology.

Alan Masline

Alan is the founder and Mental Performance Coach for Dark Horse MPC. He started his journey to become a mental performance coach University of Dayton, earning his Bachelors in Psychology. At the graduate level, Alan earned his M.S. in Sport and Human Performance and a M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Adler University.

He has worked with athletes and coaches in a broad range of sports including basketball, soccer, football, baseball, golf, tennis and E-Sports. He has previously worked with Chicago Fire FC, Chicago Fire FC Academy, and Capital University Men’s Tennis among other teams and organizations.

Amanda Jones

Amanda Jones is a Mental Performance Coach with separate Masters Degrees in Human Performance and Sports Psychology. She works with business professionals, nonprofits, and athletic organizations, sharing her experience and knowledge to break down mental barriers and unlock the true potential of her clients.

Conclusion

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