Upcoming Event: Softball versus Salt Lake Community College on October 21, 2025 at 4 p.m.
4 p.m.
Softball
vs Salt Lake Community College
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The University of Utah Athletics
High Performance Team - Sports Psychology & Wellness
Sports Psychology & Wellness
SPWO has a mission of promoting the mental health, wellness, and performance of all student-athletes. Our services are confidential and include individual and group mental health therapy, mental performance, consultation, crisis intervention, outreach and education, and referrals. Presenting concerns of student athletes range from the expected developmental and adjustment-related concerns for the general college student population to more complex mental health issues. The most common presenting concerns include: anxiety, relationship concerns, academic issues, depression, sport injury, athletic identity, disordered eating, addiction, communication concerns, and diversity/identity concerns. We aim to provide services in a timely manner, including no financial charge to student athletes.
Mental performance services are available to individual student athletes as well as sports teams. Assisting a student athlete with mental performance includes working on aspects of emotions, thoughts, behaviors, or new roles on a sports team. Student athletes hoping to improve their concentration, motivation, or discipline in relationship to sports performance can benefit greatly from mental performance coaching. Developing skills to enhance awareness and minimize distractions, both internal and external, represent key aspects of mental performance services. Staff in Sport Psychology & Wellness are available to assist sports teams in all aspects of sport, including team building, communication, goal setting, team cohesion, conflict management, and managing emotions.
Appointments can be scheduled by reaching out to a provider directly or through your Athletic Trainer, Academic Advisor or Sport Dietician.
As a staff that values multiculturalism, we:
- Promote acceptance and equality
- Approach student athlete mental health through the lens of personal, familial, social, biological, and cultural factors
- Take a strengths-based approach in our work and look for the person behind the athlete
- Recognize that human struggles may come from personal, relational, or systemic issues and strive to make positive changes in these areas
- Believe sports culture can offer growth across personal and social development bringing together individuals and communities
- Encourage student-athletes to explore who they want to be outside and after collegiate sports
Sports Psychology & Wellness Staff
The Psychology and Wellness program is housed in the Department of Athletics and located in HPER East pavilion, room 113 (across the hall from the Women’s Basketball practice gymnasium).