A former professional, World and Olympic athlete who has competed at the highest level, Yvonne is a high performance sport consultant providing sport psychology support to the University of San Francisco and numerous collegiate, professional, World and Olympic athletes. She designs personalized mental performance programs to improve both team and individual sport performance.
Yvonne’s mental performance strategies and tactics place a premium on building individual resilience to a variety of elite sport conditions, situations and competitive pressures. She works with athletes to create their own confidence pathways, establish pre/post game and practice routines, focusing techniques, as well as effective goal setting. Yvonne specializes in imagery and mental rehearsal techniques, performance profiling, and the use of biofeedback tools to calm both brain and body for optimal performance.
Yvonne works closely with a number of leading global neuroscientists in both the USA, Spain and Australia in developing her integrated approach to body-brain sport optimization.