Hi, I’m Mel!
I’m a mental performance specialist located in the Midwest. I help athletes reach their goals by way teaching them mental performance skills and HOW to implement them within their own training program.
My life and work are rooted in my core values of integrity, fairness, authenticity, and autonomy. My vision for you is to help you see your potential, use your strengths to enhance your performance, find new coping strategies to work through any performance issues, and engage with your sport in a new way.
I have a Master’s degree in sport psychology, and my thesis research was focused on burnout in sport. I have worked with individual youth and adult athletes of various sport and performance domains and levels, including mental skills consulting with a competitive youth swim club team, a youth skateboarding camp, and an incarcerated youth population.
My work is individualized to work with each athlete and rooted in research and science.
I also hold the following:
- A current Iowa Coaching Authorization
- CPR/First Aid certification
- A Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE) facilitator
- Certification in Mental Health First Aid
- Certified Sleep, Stress Management, & Recovery Coach (PN-SSRC)
**I am not a licensed practitioner and thereby do not work in a clinical capacity.**
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Note: You do NOT need to reside in Iowa for us to work together.
A little more about what makes me tick: I have three adopted rescue cats. I also work part-time for a local non-profit. I could talk all day about burnout in sports! I’ve been playing roller derby for 12+ years, and sometimes I call myself a runner (trails are superior to roads). My favorite app is Instagram. My favorite place in the world is Prague, Czech Republic. My favorite activities are camping, birding, traveling, and reading 50 books a year. Let’s rail against open office plans together! And I love cheese enchiladas very, very much.