Sports psychology therapy focuses on the mental and emotional side of being an athlete, including confidence, focus, motivation, performance pressure, and identity.

At Welling Wellness, we combine evidence-informed sports psychology strategies with personalized therapy that considers the whole person—not just your performance. Your mental health, relationships, identity, goals, and life outside of your sport all matter.

Sports psychology therapy can be a fit for athletes at many levels, including youth athletes, student-athletes, collegiate athletes, competitive athletes, professional athletes, and recreational athletes.

Whether you’re working toward a specific performance goal or navigating the pressures that come with being an athlete, therapy is personalized to your experiences, goals, and life beyond your sport.

Yes! Welling Wellness has experience working with professional athletes and understands the unique mental and emotional demands that can come with competing at a high level.

Therapy can provide space to navigate performance expectations, pressure, injuries, transitions, travel, leadership, relationships, and the many parts of life that exist beyond professional sports and competition.

Sports psychology therapy can support the mental skills that contribute to athletic performance, including confidence, focus, motivation, emotional regulation, preparation, and responding to pressure.

Together, we’ll identify what you want to work toward and develop personalized, realistic strategies that fit you, your sport, and your goals.

Absolutely! Confidence can influence how athletes approach competition, respond to mistakes, and trust themselves under pressure.

Therapy provides space to explore self-doubt and self-criticism while building greater confidence, self-trust, and a mindset that supports you both in your sport and beyond it.

Yes. Athletes may experience nerves, pressure, racing thoughts, or physical signs of stress before or during competition.

Therapy can help you recognize how these responses show up for you and develop personalized, realistic tools for focus, nervous system regulation, emotional regulation, and feeling more confident in competition.

Many athletes are accustomed to setting high standards and continually working toward improvement. For some, those expectations can begin to affect confidence, enjoyment, or their ability to feel satisfied with their progress.

Therapy can create space to explore your relationship with achievement while developing a more sustainable approach to performance, goals, and self-worth.

Yes! An injury can affect much more than physical performance. It may influence confidence, motivation, identity, routines, and how you think about returning to your sport.

Therapy can provide a space to navigate the emotional side of injury and develop strategies for rebuilding confidence and reconnecting with your sport at a pace that feels right for you.

Your nervous system plays an important role in how you respond to pressure, stay focused, recover, and remain present during competition.

Therapy may incorporate nervous system regulation, grounding, mindfulness, and other evidence-informed strategies to help you recognize your responses and develop greater awareness and regulation under pressure.

Sports psychology therapy may address performance anxiety, confidence, perfectionism, burnout, injury recovery, motivation, focus, stress, identity, team dynamics, leadership, transitions, and the pressure that can come with competition.

Your therapy is personalized around what matters most to you and where you want to grow as both an athlete and a person.

We work with athletes across a wide range of individual and team sports, including running, swimming, gymnastics, dance, soccer, football, baseball, basketball, volleyball, tennis, golf, lacrosse, hockey, and more.

Welling Wellness provides sports psychology therapy for athletes across many different sports, with an approach centered on your experiences, goals, mindset, and life both within and beyond athletics.

Absolutely. We work with high school, college, and graduate student-athletes navigating academics, athletics, recruiting, competition, leadership, injuries, and transitions.

Sports psychology therapy for student-athletes can provide space to build confidence, manage performance pressure, create balance, and navigate the demands of academics and athletics while remembering that you are more than your performance.

Yes! Welling Wellness provides sports psychology therapy for college athletes throughout Maryland, Washington, DC, and Virginia, including student-athletes navigating the demands of Division I, Division II, Division III, club, and graduate-level athletics.

We support college athletes with performance anxiety, confidence, perfectionism, injury recovery, motivation, team dynamics, academic stress, transitions, and the unique pressures of collegiate sports. Therapy is personalized around your goals, experiences, and who you are both on and off the field.

Sports psychology therapy can focus on both athletic performance and the person behind the performance. While performance goals may be part of the work, therapy can also address mental health, relationships, identity, stress, confidence, life transitions, and other experiences that affect how you feel both within and outside of your sport.

At Welling Wellness, we recognize that you are more than your sport. Your therapy is personalized to the whole person and designed around what matters most to you.

Yes! Welling Wellness offers personalized therapy for athletes in Baltimore and throughout Maryland, with virtual therapy also available in Washington, DC and Virginia.

In-person sessions are available at our Federal Hill, Baltimore office. Whether you are a professional athlete, collegiate athlete, student-athlete, or recreational athlete, therapy is tailored to your goals, experiences, and life both within and beyond athletics.

Yes! Welling Wellness offers both in-person and virtual sports psychology therapy. In-person sessions are available at our Federal Hill, Baltimore office, with virtual therapy available throughout Maryland, Washington, DC, and Virginia.

You can choose the format that feels most comfortable and fits your schedule, while your therapist personalizes the work around your goals and needs.