Mental Skills for Sporting Performance

In my practice, I provide Mental Skills sessions for a diverse range of individuals, including both elite athletes and enthusiastic amateurs. These sessions are open to both juniors and adults, covering an age range from 8 to 80. I don’t believe age is a barrier to success!

My support is designed to cater to individuals across a variety of situations:

Athletes who engage in regular competition or performance and are eager to enhance their success by acquiring long-lasting mental skills and performance techniques. This involves the development of strategies, tactical goal setting, target establishment, and maintaining a season-long focus. Additionally, we identify specific mental skills to address and overcome existing performance challenges.
Those who are currently side-lined due to injuries or facing setbacks and are in search of guidance to establish goals for their recovery. I provide valuable insights and advice on how to make the most of their time away from their sport to acquire new mental skills. This process includes identifying potential trigger points and stressors that could contribute to future injuries or issues, along with strategies for effective management.
Individuals dealing with performance-related issues that have a substantial impact on their ability to achieve success. These issues often revolve around anxiety, emotional control, perfectionism, or social comparison. Our support is aimed at helping individuals address and overcome these specific challenges.

How it works

For amateur athletes, I usually recommend a series of 5 or 6 sessions. These sessions are typically spaced out fortnightly to allow enough time for practice and completing any assigned homework.

As for elite athletes, I offer support on an ongoing basis, helping when it’s needed, especially in response to specific issues or upcoming competitive events.

In my role as a mental skills coach, I often use an eclectic approach, which means that I blend various theories and techniques from different areas of psychology. This allows me to create a customised and holistic strategy to improve athletes’ mental performance.

I focus on tailoring interventions to individual needs, considering sport-specific challenges, and integrating tools from cognitive-behavioural, psychodynamic, and humanistic approaches, among others.

Cost: £80 - £90 per session.

Beth Redfern

2024-01-29

I highly recommend working with Jon of Balance Your Brain. I found his combination of coaching and hypnotherapy hugely helpful in dealing with some unexpected stressful events and was really impressed at just how quickly things changed with his help. As well as being great at what he does, he’s also really professional and very nice. He immediately put me at my ease and I felt very comfortable talking to him. Thank you Jon!

Finn Hewlett

2024-01-02

I went to Jon when I was in a bad place. And I have suffered from anxiety in the past. I think opening up as much as possible is the best way to achieve the best results in therapy. In the first couple of sessions i wasn’t being completely honest with Jon or myself. But as soon as I began to open up and be completely honest I then started to receive the information that was needed in order for me get over these negative thoughts and emotions. I would highly recommend Jon to anyone who is going through a bad period, or even if they feel they may be going down the wrong path in life. Jon helped me to understand my brain and the processes it can go through that can either send you down a negative spiral of thoughts and emotions. But the same way it can do this, it can be done in a positive way as well. Highly recommend.

Caroline

2023-10-30

We went to Jon as my daughter age 9 has been battling some fears/mental blocks in gymnastics with backwards tumbling. My daughter felt at ease with Jon and could talk and explain her feelings even though she struggles with communicating. Jon has built up her confidence, she is now believing in herself and backward tumbling is making progress.

Jane Harden

2023-10-28

Jon was brilliant can not praise enough, been a smoker for 30 years and tried many time to stop, this time with Jon's help it has worked 7 weeks now ! 😀

Jessica Easley

2023-09-30

I searched up hypnotherapy and anxiety to look for help for my son. Up came Jon! My son hated school and was starting GCSEs and I thought Jon may help to get him through the last few months. He was amazing! He totally understood a 16 yr old mind and how he felt. My son could really open up and talk to Jon, he looked forward to every session and came out a more positive happier child. Jon taught him to turn situations around and override the negative thoughts. His advice has now helped him pass 8 GCSEs and has settled into 6th form so easily and made new friends with his new found confidence. I can’t thank Jon enough and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him. If you need help contact him you won’t regret it!

Rich Brassett

2023-09-06

My sessions with Jon were always really insightful and his thoroughness and way of explaining things helped me to really uncover certain issues that we then worked on. I would highly recommend speaking with Jon, i've seen significant growth in myself.

James

2023-06-22

I have struggled a lot over the years with negative thinking and severe anxiety. Jonn has really helped me deal with these issues and re train my way of thinking to the point were I now no longer feel the aniexty at all. His a true gentleman and can't thank him enough.

Alex Green

2023-06-14

Jon has helped me immensely with my career and performance. I can't thank him enough for all his help so far.

april clarke

2023-06-06

Jon was an amazing Hypnotherapist. He helped massively with my anxiety and allowed me to think positively about situations which made me more motivated and overall happier. Thank you so much Jon, I very much recommend Jon to anyone struggling.

Lucy Skelton

2023-05-26

Client testimonial. “Full disclosure, I’m Jon’s wife. But as anyone knows, your family can give you a much harder time than anyone else, so my husband really had his work cut out with me! Anyone who knows me, will tell you that I hate flying. Since I was a kid, I’ve hated flying. I’ve tried so many ways to cope; medication, copious amounts of alcohol, fear-of-flying courses, clinging to aircraft staff & family for dear life and shear avoidance…it’s safe to say, I’ve got the t-shirt. And Jon’s had to put up with my vast array of ‘techniques’ for the past 20 years! Jon suggested trying out some hypnotherapy on me. I’ll hold my hands up, I was sceptical; not because I didn’t he was good at what he does or that hypnotherapy doesn’t work, I just thought…it’s weird, you’re my husband…and I’ve tried everything already! This is just me, it’ll never go away. So fast forward to this photo. This is me on a plane during take off, returning from Edinburgh this weekend. I’m listening to my hypnotherapy recording (my husband is in my ear!) and I’m in happy-land. I never thought this would be possible. I’ve gone from being unable to sleep before a flight and stressing about every tiny detail of the journey (the packing, the ride to the airport, literally everything)…to gliding through security, browsing the shops and even sleeping on a plane! I couldn’t eat 24hrs before I flew (regularly vomiting in the toilets before boarding, through nerves). I can now can eat on a plane. Yesterday I even ate lunch before I got on the plane. That’s huge! My longest running coping strategy was alcohol. Although I felt like it worked, it really didn’t. I would be anxious & stressed about getting drunk enough before my flight (speeding everyone through security as quickly as possible to get to a bar). Trust me there’s nothing glamorous about drinking vodka at 8am with your kids in tow. It also ruined the beginning of my holiday; I’d often not remember the landing airport, left bags on planes and spent the first day of my holiday in bed royally hungover. My fear of flying genuinely stopped me from living my life how I wanted to. I would turn down trips or change the destination to avoid a long flight or a flight at all. I now can’t wait for my next holiday. It’s safe to say, it’s changed my life and my family’s. If you feel how I used to about flying (or any fear for that matter), give Jon a try…it could change everything for you.”

Mental Skills for Sporting Performance

In my practice, I provide Mental Skills sessions for a diverse range of individuals, including both elite athletes and enthusiastic amateurs. These sessions are open to both juniors and adults, covering an age range from 8 to 80. I don’t believe age is a barrier to success!

How it works

Cost: £80 - £90 per session.

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