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Counseling Services in Maryland and Virginia Designed Specifically for Athletes

Individual, small group, and team counseling services in Maryland, Virginia, and DC.

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  • Unlock Your True Potential

    Learn to THIRVE!

    By understanding how your thoughts and emotions power your performance, you can purposefully create the internal environment that allows you to respond to external demands!

  • Manage Fear and Anxiety

    Do you worry about mistakes? Fear failure? Fear of other people’s opinions?

    Learn how to become aware of, and respond to, the fears and anxieties that hold you back in your performance.

  • Build Optimism, Resilience and Grit

    Learn to see setbacks as temporary, focus on the factors in your control, and embrace an optimistic mindset in all aspects of your life.

    Overcome adversity, grow, and create positive responses to challenges!

  • Overcome Setbacks

    Learn purposeful responses to mistakes, loses & setbacks to stay focused on your goal. Unlock the power of optimism, resilience, and grit!

  • Learn How to Prepare for Performance

    Do you perform great at practice and then struggle in games?

    Learn how to utilize specific mental and emotional skills that allow you to prepare for games with your individualized Performance Persona!

  • Injury Recovery - Mental Skills

    Injury recovery is more than physical rehabilitation.

    Learn the mental skills necessary to manage the emotions surrounding injury, stay motivated through rehab, and your return to the field with confidence!

Reach new heights at MBS Performance Counseling!

“Performance” refers to the fact that your life centers around process, reactions, and responses. Taking action is required to excel in your academics, relationships, and athletics. With that in mind, we focus on purposeful and healthy responses in overcoming setbacks, embracing challenges, and utilizing skills, such as optimism, resilience, and grit to promote positive performance.

Our counseling services in Maryland for athlete mental health are designed specifically to build healthy, resilient mindsets so you can perform at your optimal level in the classroom/work, in your sport, and in life.

Whether you are dealing with anxiety, low motivation, emotional control, defining priorities or dealing with conflict, MBS Performance Counseling aims to help you manage your mindset and maximize your overall performance. Through our approach, we challenge you to embrace the journey of individual growth!

We utilize a unique blend of therapeutic approaches and mental performance coaching in order to empower individuals with important skills to manage their mental health. You will learn to utilize optimism, define your purpose, understand your personal snags so you can perform at your highest levels.

Discover the “Performance” approach and become empowered in your life. Together we will feed the positive aspects of the mind, body, and spirit to promote healthy decisions and increase overall life satisfaction.

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Other Sport Counseling Products

Perform with Purpose

Mental Skills Workbook for Athletes

The Perform with Purpose Workbook provides athletes with an introduction to mental performance terms and strategies, reflection pages for personal and performance growth, as well as worksheets to apply each topic as they learn it!  Learn more….

DISC Profile Assessment

For athletes, coaches, and administrators

Mental Athletic Counseling DISC Assessmenr

We have partnered with Athletic Assessments to provide our athletes, coaches, and club administrators with the most in-depth behavioral analysis tool out there. Through this tool we delve into motivation, communication styles, potential team conflicts, and more! Contact Us to order your assessment today!

Perform with Purpose – Course

Online, self-paced course introducing sport performance counseling topics

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Perform with Purpose introduces athletes, coaches, and parents to 21 mental performance topics; providing athletes with terms, concepts, videos, and worksheets for individual application.  Check out our courses here!

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The Power of Optimism

Learning the power of optimism is the core foundation of our philosophy at MBS Performance Counseling. Learning to adopt a mindset of hope is the first step to believing your actions matter. Once you decide you have the ability to affect change in your life through purposeful action, you then are able to define your own success! Being optimistic allows you to overcome setbacks and build the future you desire. Contact us today to start on the path to self-discovery through an optimistic mindset!

Embracing Gratitude

Gratitude reminds us that our own success is often due to the investment of others in our lives. Recognizing those individuals as well as the circumstances in your life help build your appreciation for what you have. Embracing gratitude also reminds you to see the positive aspects of your life. Sharing your gratitude with those you appreciate helps raise the happiness levels of those around you as well as your own well-being.