Sport Psychology & Athletic Counseling Course for Clinicians
Strategies to Improve Mental Health, Performance, and Resilience Across the Lifespan
- Speaker:
- Carrie Farrell, LMHC
- Duration:
- 5 Hours 13 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Feb 13, 2025
- Product Code:
- POS150176
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
From youth leagues to pro teams, athletes have been told to push through—leaving mental health struggles hidden in the shadows.
But… the game is changing.
Therapists who can help athletes are in high demand.
This course is the key to helping athletes manage mental health disorders, perfectionism, eating disorders, parental pressures, burnout, life-after-sport, and more.
Join Carrie Farrel, LMHC, former Division 1 Softball coach, accomplished athlete, renown speaker, and sought after therapist by athletes, their families, sports facilities and institutions. In this training, you’ll learn skills to support athletes from the perspectives of DBT, CBT, Family Systems and more that keeps them mentally healthy, happy and loving their sport.
Walk away equipped to:
- Offer real solutions and empathy to athletes facing extreme pressure, burnout, and overcommitment
- Treat athletes struggling with mental health diagnoses from anxiety, depression, ADHD, and more to those in acute mental health crises
- Support athletes suffering in silence and those with ‘troubled’ or chaotic home lives
- Help navigate identity, self-hate, life-after-sport, self-worth and other common problems
- Support clients with performance anxiety, perfectionism, and setbacks from injury
Whether you’re working with kids, teens and adults, you’ll walk away with concrete education and training that expands your scope of practice.
Become an outstanding counselor who can provide sport psychology and athletic counseling for clients across the lifespan!
Register now!
Credit
Handouts/Brochure
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Sport Psychology & Athletic Counseling (2.5 MB) | 34 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Carrie Farrell, LMHC Related seminars and products
Carrie Farrell is a licensed mental health therapist, educator, and former collegiate coach with over two decades of experience in counseling, athletics, and leadership development. As the owner of Training the Complete Athlete, Carrie provides mental health education, coaching, training, and resources to therapists, student-athletes, coaches, and athletic trainers nationwide. A national partner with the NAIA, Carrie supports over 250 colleges and universities with mental health services. In addition to her counseling work, Carrie is a sought-after speaker and trainer, presenting at national conventions and seminars on the intersection of mental health and athletics.
With a background in coaching and administration at the collegiate level, Carrie previously served as the head softball coach and assistant athletic director at Concordia University, where she focused on student-athlete welfare, leadership development, and NCAA compliance. Holding a BS in social science/teaching composite from the University of Utah and an MA in counseling from Western Seminary, Carrie is committed to equipping therapists, organizations, and athletes with the tools to thrive.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Carrie Farrell is the owner of Training the Complete Athlete. She is a mental health consultant with Seton Catholic and a mental health partner with NAIA. Carrie Farrell receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Carrie Farrell has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Additional Info
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Objectives
- Explain what motivates an athlete to pursue and continue with counseling.
- Identify the most common mental health issues and how they impact client athletes differently than the general population.
- Identify ways to support client athletes in creating an identity outside of being an athlete, manage mental health struggles related to injury, failure and retirement.
- Apply DBT and CBT to help an athlete manage mental health issues (including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and more), difficult thoughts and emotions, and performance.
- Explain the best ways to help client athletes communicate with teammates, coaches and members of social circle.
- Apply Solution-Focused Therapy and Family Systems skills into managing mental health issues of client athletes.
Outline
Part 1: Getting Started with Sport Psychology & Athletic Counseling
Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Health in Sports
- Getting the Athlete in the door
- Identifying the core of mental health problems impacting sport
- Assessing for burnout
- Understanding your client’s identity as an athlete
- The role of psychoeducation for athletes
- How to be direct and directive
A DBT Framework for Athletic Counseling & Sport Psychology
- Getting started using DBT with athletes
- Incorporate a Process, Adversity and Genuine Confidence focused lens to DBT
- Core techniques, assumptions and how the 4 pillars support athletes
- Strategies to use in session one from youth to pro clients
- Personal Effectiveness strategies to improve teamwork, coaching relationships and more
- Distress tolerance skills for athletic adversity and stamina in the face of discomfort
- Using emotion regulation to help athletes feel without repressing
- Mindfulness skills to cope with anxiety and more
Part 2: Identifying Core Mental Health Problems, Diagnoses & Individual Athletic Struggles
Overcoming Common Obstacles to Success in Athletes
- Working with performance anxiety
- How to help athletes with perfectionism
- Helping clients with indecisiveness
- Breaking the cycle of overthinking Improving confidence and self-worth
- Managing and returning to sport after injury
- Reducing self-hate
The Reality of Eating Disorders in Athletes
- Risk factors, prevention of anorexia and bulimia
- Evaluating “excessive exercise”
- The role of menstruating, stomach pain and other physical consequences
- Overvaluing beliefs on body composition and performance
- “Fat talk”, skipping meals, and dieting
Treating Clinical Depression & Anxiety in Athletes
- Knowing the signs and risk factors
- Addressing sleep problems
- Early sport specialization and focused training since childhood
- Substance abuse, misuse, missing school and training
- Suicide, self-harm and risk assessment
- Causes of depression in athletes: Grief, ACES, Chronic Frustration, Failure
- Links to post-concussion syndrome
- Helping athletes control worry, catastrophizing, fears and more
- Exercises: Create a “pre-game” ritual, Grounding exercises
Helping Athletes Manage Injuries, Substance Abuse, and Self-Harm
- How early injury impacts retirement
- Addressing the emotional impact of injury and cognitive distortions
- The link between concussion and substance use
- Leading causes of substance abuse and prevention
- Keys to injury prevention
- Support athletes in retirement
- Exercise as “self-punishment” and intentional behavioral pain
- Helping to mitigate the true risk of suicide
- Questions that pinpoint reasoning for self-harm
Overcoming Burnout, Failure & Commitment Concerns
- Recognizing the signs and discerning the main problem
- Creating other interests/relationships
- Setting Boundaries and taking breaks
- Developing new coping skills
- Time management to address burnout
- Help clients prioritize self-care
- Exercise: Stress management and relaxation techniques
The Athlete Identity & “Life After Sport”
- Having hard conversations
- Playing within abilities: talent, knowing your role & more
- Understanding your client’s identity as an athlete
- The impact of self-worth being attached to outcomes
- Working with limited interests outside of sport
- Identifying a core identity beyond “the athlete”
- Judgement and outside criticism skill development
- Exercise: Creating a values list
Part 3: Working with Student Athletes, Parents & Teams
Undoing The Impact of Parental Expectations
- Conditional love, parental pressure, absent parents & more
- When parents are “living through their child”
- Helping kids manage unrealistic expectations
- Sports Obsessive parents and poor relationships with coaches/teammates
- Managing “over coaching”
Supporting Student Athletes & Teams
- Transition into college and preparing for demand of collegiate sports
- Supporting clients through the recruiting process and rejection
- Lack of coaching and non-relational coaches
- Favoritism and inconsistency with teams
- Unrealistic expectations and coaching ego Grooming, emotional and physical abuse
- Coaches lack of empathy
- Lies and Mistrust from coaches
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psych Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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