Services

Taking the first step toward therapy can feel daunting, but it’s also a powerful commitment to your mental performance and well-being. Working with a sport and performance psychologist, you’ll find a safe, confidential space to explore your thoughts, emotions, and challenges. Whether you're struggling with perfectionism, performance anxiety, pressure, or relationship dynamics, we provide expert support tailored to athletes and high performers. Through sport psychology, we’ll uncover your strengths, develop strategies to enhance resilience, and equip you with mental skills to navigate challenges with confidence. Together, we’ll help you build a strong mindset for both sport and life.

Understanding yourself on a deeper level is essential for both personal and athletic growth. As a sport and performance psychologists, we utilize personalized assessment and testing to explore your unique traits, mental patterns, and strengths. This process provides valuable insights into your motivation, emotional responses, conflict style, and leadership approach, helping you overcome challenges like perfectionism and optimize your mental game. Whether you're an individual athlete or part of a team, these assessments serve as a powerful tool for self-awareness, improved conflict resolution, leadership development, and peak performance. Investing in sport psychology assessments can help you build mental resilience and unlock your full potential.

If you have suffered a severe loss or have been exposed to persistent trauma over your life, it will impact your athletic performance and ability to develop and sustain relationships. You will want to ensure you see a professional who is trained in treating trauma and complex trauma. Dr. Claypool has been working with survivors of complex trauma since 2011, and has pursued training in the latest evidence-based treatments to best serve his clients. Healing from complex trauma is possible. 

Through compassionate, individualized support, we guide athletes in addressing the underlying emotional and psychological factors that contribute to disordered eating. Our goal is to empower you to cultivate a healthier mindset, rebuild trust in your body, and restore the mental clarity and energy needed to perform at your best.

Whether you're overcoming challenges, sharpening mental performance, or enhancing team dynamics, our workshops provide expert guidance from a sport and performance psychologist. Grounded in sport psychology, these sessions offer practical strategies to help athletes and teams improve focus, motivation, leadership, and conflict resolution—essential components for success. By promoting open communication, fostering a growth mindset, and building confidence, we empower teams to strengthen trust, enhance team building, and create a high-performance culture where every athlete thrives. Unlock your team’s full potential with evidence-based mental performance training designed for long-term success.

Whether you're seeking a keynote speaker, workshop, or team seminar, our tailored presentations deliver sport psychology insights to enhance mental toughness, resilience, and focus. Led by a sport and performance psychologist, these sessions equip athletes, coaches, and teams with practical mental performance strategies for success.

Dr. Claypool also specializes in building cultures of leadership, respect, and team accountability, offering expert programming on creating a culture of sexual respect in sport and implementing strategies to prevent sexual violence. These evidence-based presentations help teams cultivate trust, communication, and a safe, high-performing environment.

Strong team culture is the foundation of athletic success, both on and off the field. Our consulting services help athletic directors, coaches, and team captains create mentally strong, high-performing teams through expert sport psychology, leadership development, and conflict resolution strategies.

We begin with a comprehensive cultural assessment, providing detailed, actionable plans to establish a positive team environment where athletes can thrive, communicate effectively, and perform at their highest level. Whether you're looking to enhance leadership, improve team dynamics, or strengthen resilience, our expert guidance ensures lasting success.

Dr. Claypool provides clinical sport psychology supervision and consultation to master's, doctoral, and post-doctoral candidates on a case-by-case basis.