You will work with a highly skilled Mental Trainer® with the education, experience, and skill to help you realize your dreams. While the MTI programs are comprehensive, what makes them so effective are our Mental Trainers.
The key to our success, whether we're assisting a high school athlete or an Olympian like Michael Phelps, is our customized mental training.
Our clients receive a "cognitive" based approach that helps them control their thoughts, which affect their emotions, and hence their performance. Core concepts and individualized activities are combined to create a personally-designed mental skills training program that gets results.
Here are some of the key components:
Initial Needs Assessment
This is a comprehensive analysis of your current mental skills. After it's completed, you'll be clear on the areas you need to work on, many of which will surprise you.
Custom Mental Skills Program
Using your Initial Needs Assessment, your Mental Trainer will develop a program that is tailor made for you. It will include all the core concepts of peak performance.
Mastery of Core Concepts
This includes "scientific goal-setting," pre-performance routines, positive self-talk and emotion control. We will help you develop these skills to a very high level.
Monitoring Chart Design and Tracking
We're going to help you bring a whole new level of awareness and focus to your sport training and competition by helping you develop a monitoring system.
Periodization
Knowing how to modulate your overall training load and competitive schedule is critical to your health, performance, and longevity. This is a skill and an art, which you can learn.
Advanced Mental Skills
Once you have established a solid base, we will teach you some of the mental skills many professional athletes count on for their success.
Common Questions
How is mental training different from psychiatry or psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy deals with mental disorders and attempts to bring ill people back to health. Psychiatrists have the authority to prescribe drugs. Mental training, on the other hand, is for 'normal' people who want to become exceptional in their sport or area of performance. MTI does not use drugs or psychotherapy in its programs. We use sound cognitive-based systems to build emotion control, confidence and self-sufficiency.
What kind of results have you been able to generate for your clients?
Our clients' successes include excelling at the high school level, winning state championships, securing college scholarships, accepting professional contracts, and recently, earning Olympic gold medals. While some of our professional and Olympic clients have chosen to remain anonymous, read the 'What Our Clients Say' page for a few testimonials.
What makes your training more effective than other options I might find online?
MTI has developed a comprehensive mental skills training program that has been finely tuned for over 15 years. Additionally, our Certified Mental Trainers tailor every program to our clients' unique and often changing needs, inner obstacles, external pressures, and goals. It is the combination of our process and our individual attention that generates such positive results for our clients.
Who is your typical client?
Our typical client is a highly dedicated athlete seeking high performance. These people have put an enormous amount of time and money into developing technically and physically, but most have not focused enough time on mental toughness. Many are underperforming as a result, even though they often have advanced physical skills. They have come to realize that excelling mentally requires something more than what they've been doing so far, and they can't afford to waste their time on trial and error. They come to MTI because they want long-lasting results as quickly as possible.
Do I need to meet with you in person or can I receive training by phone too?
Our company offices are based in Dallas, Texas so we meet with clients there most of the time. However, we have people who live and work on every continent of the world. These long-distance clients, some of whom we have never physically met, train with us using phone, video conferencing, and the internet. When they are close to Texas, they often stop in to meet with us. And, our Optimal Package includes a monthly travel feature so we can get to our clients anywhere in the continental U.S.
Are there other benefits to your mental training programs?
We hear repeatedly from our clients and their parents and coaches that the work they have done with MTI has been comprehensively life-enhancing. In short, the mental skills of cognitive awareness, visualization, performance goal-setting, emotion control, and Periodization Training are all transferable life skills. Our clients tell us that, beyond performing better in their sport, they have become more fulfilled, productive and effective in their lives.
Can I keep it confidential that I'm working with MTI?
Absolutely. This is a fundamental right of every MTI client and we of course take privacy very seriously. With that said, the field of mental training has become better understood and respected in recent years. As such, many athletes feel more comfortable acknowledging the positive influence of their Mental Trainer.
How do I get started?
Your first step is to call or email us to set up a free initial consultation. In this first session, we will do a complete review of your needs, performance obstacles, and goals. Just as you are evaluating us, we will determine whether you are the right type of athlete for us. There is no charge for this initial consultation.
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