Professional Sessions

Our Sessions Include the Following

- Athlete Profile / Assessment
- Goal Setting (Technical, Tactical, Physical, Mental, Lifestyle)
- Deliberate Psychological Teaching (CBT, DBT, REBT, Behaviorism, Mindfulness, Biofeedback)
- Sport / Performance Motivation
- Sport / Performance Confidence
- Managing Emotions /Performance Anxiety
- Performing Under Pressure
- Focus / Concentration / Attention
- Mental Imagery, Self-talk, Energy Management, Self-Confidence
- Excelling Under Pressure, Preperformance Routine.
- Team Cohesion / Unity
- Assertive Communication / Boundary Setting
- Mental toughness / Resilience
- Visualization / Mental Rehearsal 
- Performance Routines
- Decision making / tactics

Methods of Psychotherapy & Sports performance psychology delivery for athletes, performers and teams, both face-to-face and through online sport psychology

1-to-1 consultations
1-hour sport psychology sessions delivered in person or on line. Des uses a secure, confidential platform to ensure the safety of your information. The athlete learns specific skills, mental tools, and strategies in order to optimize performance (flow state) and break through their mental boundaries.

Team Workshops and Group Sessions
Sport psychology workshops delivered to a group of athletes, team, club, students, businesses or coaches on an agreed upon topic. (confidence building, performing under pressure, bouncing back from mistakes, dealing with failure). Variety of lengths ranging from 1 hour to full day workshops.

Drop in Clinics
Drop in clinics arranged for teams, typically once a week, for people to book 1-1 consultations

Coaches/Parents
Learning to effectively coach and/or parent an athlete is never easy! Through many strategies and educational elements provided Des will help you get the best out of your athletes! Des will focus on elements such as assertive communication, boundary setting, receiving and delivering feedback, effective goal setting, recovering from mistakes, mindfulness and much more.

Business and performance psychology Many of the worries around sports performance translate into the corporate world. I have worked with CEOs and CCOs on a number of challenges, from company culture to their relationship with pressure.


Indication of costs
1 x 50-minute consultations: Starting from $150.0 per hour. Enquire for rates
Block booking for 3 x 50-minute consultations: Discounted - Enquire for rates
Block booking for 6 x 50-minute consultations: Discounted - Enquire for rates


I offer online e-therapy and e-counselling over a secure, encrypted video conferencing platform called doxy.me which is similar to Skype and Zoom, but designed for healthcare providers. You don't need to download or install anything, just click on a link and you'll be taken to my virtual therapy room where you can have a video e-therapy session using your computer, android or iPhone.