How Does Working With a Trained Professional Improve Confidence?

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As a tennis player, do you feel like you can get everything you need on the mental game by just going out onto the Internet searching for articles and podcasts? Hi, I'm Dr. Patrick Cohn with the Tennis Psychology Podcast. Today I answer a question from Kathryn about how she can improve her confidence by working with a trained professional. She asked. I have listened to some of your podcasts and everything you advise makes a lot of sense. However, I would like to know what I can gain from one on one sessions over and above what can be gleaned on the Internet. I just need to find a way to have greater confidence in my strokes.

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Kathryn, thanks for the question and we do provide a lot of valuable content, a lot of valuable tips and strategies for tennis players on the Internet through our podcast, through our articles, and through our website@sportspsychologytennis.com however, working one on one with a trained mental coach in this area is much different than going out and listening to podcasts and reading articles. It's a much different approach. It's more personalized to your specific challenges. So, for example, one of the things that we do in the personal coaching programs is we start with our AMAP assessment. That's called the Athlete's Mental Aptitude Profile. Even before we would meet for our first session, you would actually complete that AMAP that gets the ball rolling, that gets you thinking about some of your mental game challenges, and that helps us organize our thinking as well about the approach that we want to take with you. Once we have your AMAP back, then we can start the first session in which I would follow up with you and find out some more questions about what's misfiring in your mental game. Specifically, you mentioned that you need to have greater confidence in your strokes, but we also need to talk about what's impacting that confidence because you really can separate individual components in the mental game, although we do separate them out for discussion purposes. And for the purpose of this podcast, there may be other things that are affecting your confidence, such as fear of failure, and you also want to find out what other mental skills might be impacting that, such as high expectations I've talked a lot about how high expectations can affect confidence. So my approach with you with a one on one session would be very very specific to your challenges with confidence. What are your top confidence killers? How do you gain confidence specifically in your case? And then we set up the strategies for helping you be more proactive with your confidence and also the strategies for helping you deal with some of those confidence killers such as high expectations, comparing yourself to other players and maybe negative self talk or being self critical of your own performance like many perfectionists are. So a one on one program is really geared much closer to your specific challenges than some of the information that I provide in the articles and online podcasts. Hope that clears it up. Look forward to working with you. Thanks for the question.

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