Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Melissa Dhillon.

Accredited Sports & Exercise Scientist (Psychology)
Owner & Performance Psychologist of Athletes InThe Zone

Melissa’s deep-rooted passion for psychology came from her tennis career as an LTA player. Additionally, her curiosity stemmed further into psychology by wanting to understand human thoughts, behaviours and emotions to become the greatest. Her driving force is to become the best version of herself in all parts of her life.

Melissa believes psychology is a huge part of our lives. She continues to explain that our mindsets impact our successes and failures. Our mindset matters because it directs our lives.

Melissa provides every athlete with supreme levels of confidence, resilience, focus and optimism that enhance their inspired performances.

Melissa is the driving force behind her Performance Psychology consultancy, “Athletes In the Zone”, which holds seven national and international partnerships with esteemed organizations in elite sports and business. Melissa’s elite sports and high-performance business collaborations:

- Birmingham City Women’s & Girls FC
- University of Warwick
- Salford City FC
- Birmingham City University
- International Tennis Federation (ITF)
- Julius Baer
- Circle Rehabilitation
- Aston Villa FC Foundation

Privately, Melissa works with ITF & LTA players and academy footballer players. She has successfully worked with English League footballers, Alps Tour golfers and British gymnasts.

Melissa’s vision is to inspire individuals to be the best version of themselves.

Linkedin:

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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Dr Alex Diaz.

Dr. Alex Diaz is a licensed psychotherapist and a Certified Performance Coach with over 25 years of experience providing mindset strategies. His Clinical Psychology degree focused on the Relationship between Mental Toughness and Body Awareness in Collegiate Athletes. Dr. Diaz provides mental wellness support to athletes and non-athletes seeking coping skills to manage the highly stressful demands of sports performance and personal life. He teaches emotional resilience using neuroscience-based strategies thatpromote emotional regulation, stress management, andattention awareness.

Dr. Diaz conducts his work in private practice in New York. He is listed in the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the NFL Player Association Mental Health Registry Directory. Dr. Diaz has spoken and written about sport psychology and mental wellnessstrategies, stress management, injury rehabilitation, team building, motivation, post-concussionrehabilitation, and coach-athlete relationships.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-diaz-phd?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Dr Michael Passaportis and Dr Dan Brown.

Michael Passportis is a lecturer in sport and exercise psychology at the University of Sussex. He teaches and supervises undergraduate and postgraduate students on topics such as stress, coping, motivation, and emotion in sport. He also conducts and publishes research on the psychosocial factors that influence thriving in elite sport organisations.

As a sport and exercise psychologist in training, he provides tailored psychological support to individuals, teams, and organisations who want to reach their full potential and thrive in their sporting pursuits. Drawing on established psychological principles and his personal experiences of elite sport performance, he works collaboratively with clients to improve their understanding of how their psychological functioning affects their performance and well-being.

Dan Brown is a Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Dan joined the University of Portsmouth in 2017. He completed a BSc (Hons) Psychology at the University of Bath, an MSc Psychology of Sport and Exercise at Loughborough University, and received his PhD from the University of Bath.

Dan’s doctoral research focussed on developing an understanding of thriving in humans and the application of this knowledge to sport performers.

Dan’s current research centres on the psychology of human excellence and well-being. Specifically, his work focuses on understanding and facilitating thriving in humans, athlete transitions and developmental experiences, and the development and assessment of interventions used in sport and performance psychology.

Michael: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-passo/

Dan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-brown-38248739/

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www.sportingbounce.com

The online directory of sport performance specialists. Sportingbounce helps connect specialists in sport psychology, nutrition, sports massage, injury rehabilitation, coaching, and fitness training with clients. With a daily spend on Google Adwords, social media advertising, and excellent organic rankings on search engines your business will get found on sporting bounce. Visit sportingbounce.com to find out how sporting bounce can help you. Don’t forget that listeners of this podcast can get 50%

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