If you searched for a sports psychologist near Philadelphia or a mental performance coach and landed here, it’s worth being direct: we’re neither of those things, and it’s worth understanding why before you book.
We’re not sports psychologists
“Psychologist” is a licensed, protected title, and neither of our founders holds it. Meagan Yates is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with a PhD, and Trevor Sasek is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). More importantly, sports psychology typically works through conversation — processing performance anxiety, mindset, and mental skills through talk-based methods. That’s not what happens in our sessions.
We’re not mental performance coaches
Mental performance coaching generally focuses on the psychological and cognitive side of performance — mindset, visualization, mental skills training. Our work is physiological. Using Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) and muscle-testing biofeedback, we work directly with the autonomic nervous system to identify and discharge structural bracing patterns and hidden stress loops stored in the body — the physical residue of injury, concussion, or chronic overload that’s often driving a performance block in the first place.
What we actually do
We treat the body as the primary source of information, not the mind. A session with us looks like hands-on, somatic, muscle-testing-guided work aimed at your physiology — not a conversation about your mindset or your thoughts. If a performance block, a lingering injury pattern, or a post-competitive identity crash has a physical, nervous-system component to it — and we think it usually does — this is the more direct route to resolving it.
When another provider might be the better fit
If what you’re looking for is specifically talk-based mental skills training, or you’re working with clinical anxiety or depression that calls for a licensed psychologist’s care, a sports psychologist or a mental performance coach may be the right starting point — and we’re glad to help point you in that direction if that’s the case. Where our work often complements that kind of support is on the physiological side: the bracing, the stress loops, the nervous system dysregulation that talk-based approaches alone don’t always reach.
