Bzdell Sport Psychology, LLC

Helping athletes develop habits of excellence for sport and life

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Bzdell Sport Psychology, founded by Dr. Wally Bzdell, is a consulting practice that specializes in providing comprehensive sport psychology services, high performance mindset training, and mental toughness training for teams, individual athletes, coaches, and other high-level performers.

To be exceptional at anything, you can train three things:

  1. Your Body (strength and conditioning, speed, agility, quickness, power, etc.)
  2. Your craft (the skills, game sense, and tactics of your sport)
  3. Your mind (motivation, awareness, focus, attention, emotional management, confidence, staying present, managing distractions, etc.).

We focus on training the mind. The body does the work but the mind is the gatekeeper for the body. Your quality of thinking impacts your quality of action.

Doc Wally teaches principles and skills, that when practiced and applied, provide athletes and other high level performers a greater capacity to show-up and perform well under pressure when the consequences matter. Doc helps athletes develop habits of quality thinking and training while identifying and removing obstacles to success; providing performance enhancement within personal development.

Doc Wally works with high-level performers in high school, prep school, NCAA, and the professional ranks. His clients include the 2014 NCAA Division I Hockey National Champion, Union College and the 2015 NCAA Division I Hockey National Champion, Providence College.

The training model is designed to help athletes clarify, learn, train and apply foundational principles and skills:

  1. Identity, guiding principles, character, vision, mission.
  2. Psychological framework that shapes our perspective (optimism, control, grit, growth mindset)
  3. Mindset skills (calm mind, focus/refocus, confidence, trust)
  4. Recovery skills essentials (sleep, nutrition/hydration, movement, thought habits, strong social support)
  5. Mindfulness – runs through all of the principles and skills and although essential, is not sufficient in of itself.

There are no hacks, no short-cuts, no tricks. There are principles and skills that we can all train and use to improve our capacity to fully engage and perform well in our chosen fields.

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Some of the benefits of working with Bzdell Sport Psychology include:

  • Improved quality training
  • Expanding one’s skill level
  • Greater self-awareness
  • Improved focus and ability to refocus
  • Improved energy management
  • Improved emotional management
  • Improved ability to perform under pressure
  • Improved relationships with teammates, coaches, and family
  • Improved ability to manage set-backs and adversity (both in and out of sport)
  • Improved confidence
  • Improved team culture
  • Improved motivation over time
  • Improved overall performance in moments of consequence
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