New York Sports and Performance Psychology (NYSPP) is a regional specialty practice of The Child & Family Institute, offering full-service elite sports and performance psychology for children and adults, specializing in the 3 P’s (high Pressure, Performance, and Profile) athletes and performers, in collaboration with leading physical therapists, personal trainers, nutritionists, and sports medicine specialists. At NYSPP, we take a holistic and integrated approach to working with high-performance athletes and performers, separating athlete/performer from individual, and helping nourish, heal, and equip the whole person, inside and outside of sports and performance.
NYSPP Areas of Expertise Include:
Sports and Entertainment Performance Anxiety
Executive Coaching in Business, Finance, and Philanthropy
Perfectionism and OCD in Sports and Performance
Injury, Aging, and Depression
Self-Criticism, Self-Esteem, and Sports/Performance
Managing Difficult Emotions in Sports and Entertainment
Addiction and Sports/Performance, including sports betting, sports watching, and video games
Sleep and Sports
Body Image and Sports/Performance
ADHD and Sports/Performance
Chronic Illness and Sports/Performance
Anxiety/Trauma and Sports/Performance
Parenthood in Sport & Entertainment
Bullying, Social Anxiety, and Loneliness in Sports/Performance
Microaggressions in Sports and Entertainment, and Issues of Equity and Inclusion
Single Sport Specialization vs. Multi-Sport Performance
Psychoeducation about the Importance and Impact of Sport in Child Physical/Emotional Development
And More…
Founder Story:
NYSPP Founder, Dr. Adam S. Weissman, began his career as a Quad-Varsity high school athlete, as well as a college athlete, musician, and perfomer, leading to opportunities meeting and working with sports and entertainment families, including Patrick Ewing, Magic Johnson, Howard Stern, Adrienne Brody, and Chevy Chase. Dr. Weissman played college basketball in Aix-en-Provence, France, leading his team to the National Championship in Strasbourg, where they beat defending champions, Paris, in overtime in the Semi-Finals, to advance to the Finals against power house (and host-city) Strasbourg, only to lose by 1 point in double overtime on two missed free throws at the buzzer. Dr. Weissman’s personal experience with the highs and lows of college sports, the athlete or performer’s mindset and resilience in the face of pressure or perceived failure, jolted his interest in both clinical and sports psychology, leading to his diversified career as a Harvard, Penn-Wharton, and University of Michigan-trained Clinical Sports and Entertainment Psychologist. Though on a smaller stage, Dr. Weissman’s success and failures as a college athlete and performer, including falling short (in dramatic fashion) in a national championship game, affords him keen insights into the mind of those playing or performing under the brightest of lights, and enables him to connect with his clients from a place of camaraderie, authenticity, understanding, and compassion, to inspire healing to optimize performance. It is in this spirit, through his own lived and learned experience, that Dr. Weissman founded NYSPP, and he and his team have been privileged to work with many of our region’s top athletes, actors, musicians, and performers.
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