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Mental Performance Coaching
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1:1 Coaching
Individualized mental performance coaching built around YOU.
1:1 sessions are a space to work on the mental side of performance in a way that is specific to you, your goals, and the challenges you’re facing. Together, we’ll identify areas you want to grow and practice tools you can actually use in sport, exercise, and everyday life.
Sessions may focus on confidence, self-talk, managing pressure, focus, motivation, pre-performance routines, bouncing back from mistakes, and more.
Not sure if it’s for you? Let’s chat!
Click “Get Started” below to fill out a quick interest form and tell me a little about yourself and what you’re looking for. Once you submit the form, I’ll personally reach out to schedule your free Intro Session.
Your Intro Session is a relaxed, no-pressure conversation to ask questions, learn more about coaching, and see if working together feels like a good fit.
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Group & Team Mental
Performance Coaching
Bring mental performance training directly to your team, program, or organization.
I partner with sports teams and groups to provide interactive workshops focused on the mental skills that matter most to your athletes. Workshops can cover topics such as confidence, self-talk, communication, handling pressure, focus, motivation, responding to mistakes, team culture, and more.
This can be a one-time workshop or an ongoing partnership throughout your season. Together, we can build a plan based on your team's needs, goals, and schedule, giving athletes consistent opportunities to put in the mental reps alongside their physical training.
Interested in bringing mental performance to your team? Let’s connect!
What is Mental Performance Coaching?
We spend countless hours training our bodies to become stronger, faster, and more prepared to perform. We lift weights, practice skills, condition, recover, and repeat it all over again.
Mental performance is training your mind with that same intention.
Think of mental performance coaching as the reps you put in for your brain. Just like you wouldn’t expect to get stronger after one workout, skills like confidence, focus, self-talk, handling pressure, motivation, and bouncing back from mistakes take practice too.
Your mind plays a role in everything you do how you respond to a mistake, what you tell yourself before a big moment, where your attention goes under pressure, and how you show up when things get hard.
The exciting part? These are skills that can be trained.
Mental performance coaching gives you tools to better understand your mind, practice those skills, and create habits that help your brain and body work together.
Because we put in the reps for our bodies.
Why wouldn’t we put in the reps for our minds, too?
What is it not?
Mental performance coaching is not clinical mental health therapy. It is not intended to diagnose or treat mental health conditions or replace the support of a licensed mental health professional.
Instead, mental performance coaching focuses on developing and practicing skills that can help you perform, compete, exercise, and navigate challenges more effectively.
Think of it this way: therapy and mental performance can both support your mind, but they serve different purposes.
Mental performance is about putting in the reps, building skills like confidence, focus, productive self-talk, resilience, motivation, and performing under pressure.
And just like having a strength coach doesn’t mean your body is weak, working with a mental performance coach doesn’t mean something is wrong with your mind.
It simply means you want to train it.
Hello! My name is Kallan Bustynowicz, and I’m originally from the suburbs of Philadelphia. Growing up with three brothers, I was surrounded by sports from a young age and to say I was competitive would probably be an understatement. I played volleyball, basketball, and lacrosse throughout high school, and it was during those years that I was first introduced to the world of sport psychology.
When I was 17, I tore my hamstring in two places and my meniscus. My confidence dropped, my self-talk became increasingly negative, and finding the motivation to work toward a comeback became harder than I ever expected.
As I began learning about sport psychology and working with someone on the mental side of my recovery, I started to understand just how connected the mind and body truly are. I learned that training your mind deserves the same attention and repetition as training your body. These were tools I desperately needed at 17 and they are tools I still use in my own life today.
Throughout my injury, I dreamed about my comeback. I imagined healing, returning to the field and having a championship winning season. At the time, I thought that was what my comeback was supposed to look like.
I had no idea God had something much bigger in store for me.
My comeback has become helping other athletes navigate the highs, the lows, and everything in between. Building confidence, changing the way we speak to ourselves, working through pressure and setbacks, and learning how to make our minds work for us, not against us.
That first introduction to sport psychology eventually led me to West Virginia University, where I earned my degree in Sport and Exercise Psychology, and then to the University of Tennessee, where I am currently completing my Master’s in Kinesiology with a concentration in Sport Psychology and Motor Behavior.
I believe whole heartedly in the power of mental performance because I live it every single day. Whether it is finding the motivation to get to the gym or creating a new workout routine for myself. These concepts, theories, and skills are drivers in my life. My injury exposed the truth that my brain had a lot of training to do and I am still putting in the reps every day.