About MGCP

As a coach, you spend endless hours working in practice refining physical skills to prepare your athletes for competition and lead them to victory. You also know that alone, talent and practice are not enough to win. Now you can learn the mental game coaching techniques and strategies to give your athletes a mental advantage!

The Mental Game Coaching Professional (MGCP) certification program is a proven sports psychology performance enhancement system developed by leading sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn. Drawing from nearly 15 years of experience as a mental game coach, sports psychology educator and former athlete, Dr. Cohn has developed the MGCP program to give you the coaching tools to help your athletes overcome mental obstacles and find “the zone.”

As a certified Mental Game Coaching Professional (MGCP) you’ll learn how to identify mental barriers, teach a proven mental skills system, and improve performance in competition.In addition, you’ll learn how to recognize when mental coaching is needed, how to conduct mental game assessments, help athletes build confidence and maximize performance.

The MGCP program is designed for:

(1) Coaches who want to uncover mental game obstacles, develop strategies to overcome them and instill confidence, focus, and teamwork.
(2) Psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to work more effectively with athletes and learn a proven system for enhancing mental game skills.
(3) Athletic trainers who want to utilize mental coaching with their athletes to help athletes triumph over mental obstacles resulting from a sports-related injury or other health-related challenge.
(4) Mental game coaches or sport psychologists-in-training who want to be certified in Dr. Cohn’s proven mental training system.

Requirements to Participate…

• 5 years or more of combined experience as a competitive athlete; coach, or trainer in your sport of expertise; or a Ph.D. in psychology; or a Masters degree in counseling psychology.
• Understanding of the psychological demands of your sport.
• Ability to apply what you learn to real-life sport scenarios.
• Have access to a team or individual athletes you can mentally train.
• A desire to learn about mental game coaching and sports psychology.
• Solid communication skills.

Our comprehensive and in-depth programs are offered in two formats:

• One-on-One certification (in person or via the phone)
• Group teleclasses certification (via tele-conference technology) 20-week or 10-week programs
• Self-paced non-certification course

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