Bunce Psychological Services strives to cultivate a safe, comfortable, respectful, and inclusive environment for individuals to process their thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment.  We provide confidential, in-person sessions on an individual basis to:

• Facilitate discussions to build self-awareness of your presenting concerns and counseling needs

• Clarify and achieve goals for treatment using a collaborative approach

• Teach you how to manage symptoms using healthy coping skills and stress management approaches

• Assist with decision-making process about your future direction

• Increase your sense of hope and facilitate opportunities for change in a positive and productive direction

• Establish an individualized approach that focuses on your specific needs from a strength-based approach while maintaining awareness of various biological, medical, psychological, social, multicultural, systemic, and environmental factors that may be impacting your experiences

Children often express their thoughts, feelings, and behavior through play.  We offer play therapy services to allow your children opportunities to:

• Help build confidence and understanding of their thoughts, emotions, and actions through directive and non-directive activities

• Learn healthy ways to express their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are difficult to verbalize using language

• Learn and practice healthy communication, social, coping skills, problem-solving abilities, and choices

• Develop skills to navigate stressful or difficult situations in life, such as academic challenges, athletic stressors, and social concerns

While coaches typically focus on the physical training in sport, sport psychologists focus on athletes' minds.  Sport psychologists can help athletes of all ability levels achieve their performance goals using mental and emotional regulation strategies. 

We work with athletes, exercisers, and performers who are committed to the pursuit of excellence, regardless of their sport, current ability level, age, ethnicity, gender, or orientation.  Our aim is to improve athletic, social, academic, and professional performance.  Techniques learned in sessions, such as relaxation, mental rehearsal, cognitive restructuring, goal setting, and motivational approaches, can even help people off the playing field in a variety of settings, such as at home, work, and school to overcome obstacles and achieve their full potential. 

Performance and treatment plans are individually developed and customized based on each person’s background, skills, personality, and goals from a strength-based approach.  Pursuit of excellence requires clear intentions, willingness to practice, cognitive and emotional flexibility, openness to growth and change, patience, and persistence in the face of pressure or adversity.  Sometimes all we need is a spark to set things in motion.

Example scenarios that we can address:

• Dealing with sport-related anxiety, high pressure situations, or losing focus during competition

• Challenges communicating with parents, coaches, and/or teammates

• Managing anger/frustration or even just motivating themselves to exercise

• Athletic identity

• Body image concerns

• Choking in competitive events or during pivotal moments in a game

• Building confidence in sport and other aspects of life

• Recovering from sport-related injuries

• Managing high expectations from self or others

• Keeping up with an exercise program

• Building satisfaction with sport participation

• Making decisions during the recruiting and college selection process

• Career planning and preparations for transitioning out of sport

Potential benefits of Sport Psychology include improvements with motivation, confidence, focus and learning effective ways to deal with distractions, reducing self-doubts and negative thinking patterns, learning ways to deal with mistakes and setbacks in performance, communicate effectively with parents, coaches, and teammates, and develop tactical plans for how to approach game scenarios or strategies.

There is no one size fits all approach, no quick fix, and no guarantees about the type of progress you may experience in counseling sessions as every person and situation is unique.

Bunce Psychological Services offers a range of non-clinical services, which include adjunct teaching and guest lecturing at the university level, conducting workshop presentations, and engaging in consultation and outreach in the community on a variety of topics related to mental health, achieving wellness, and sport psychology.  Presentations and workshops are individually developed and catered to the program and audience.  Feel free to contact Bunce Psychological Services to discuss the workshop topics and presentations available if you are interested in learning more about these services and obtaining a quote.