Sport Consulting and Psychological Counseling provides an opportunity to work with student-athletes, coaches, and athletic department staff in the two areas of consultation and counseling.

Sport consulting with student-athletes and coaches entails:

• performance enhancement skills training
• life skills training
• coach, athlete, and team relationship development
• psycho-educational groups (e.g., Performance Enhancement Group, Mental Skills Building Group, Peer Counselors in Athletics, Mind/Body Workshop Groups)

Psychological counseling with student-athletes entails assistance, education, and, support

The objective is to aid student-athletes in their efforts to enhance positive attitudes and performance within and outside of their given sport.

The Sport Consulting and Psychological Counseling program offers a rotation through the Intercollegiate Athletic Department and an opportunity to interact with various campus resources associated with Intercollegiate Athletics. The Psychology Doctoral Intern and Psychology Fellow / Post-Doctoral Intern who works in the Sport Consulting and Psychological Counseling program receives weekly individual supervision from the career Psychologist / Sport Consultant.

For more information about Training Experience, please contact Dr. Ross Flowers at (530) 752-0871 or raflowers@ucdavis.edu

Trainee Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the counseling psychology /sport consultant include:

Psychology Fellow or Post-Doctoral Position

• Direct Service Activities: provide individual, couples, and group counseling to a culturally diverse population of adults, adolescents and student-athletes, for personal, relationship, family, athletic, education and career concerns; crisis intervention; psychological assessments; workshops, psycho-educational groups, programs and presentations.
• Training Activities: supervise and evaluate the counseling and professional development activities of psychology doctoral interns.
• Consultation Activities: provide consultation to university staff and interns regarding difficult and complex students; consult with sport psychology, health sciences and intercollegiate athletic faculty, staff and student-athletes regarding outreach presentations, resources, referrals, development, support, and promotion of athletic education; consult with staff from CAPS and Intercollegiate Athletics Department.
• General Administrative Activities: participate on the Student Athletic Advising Committee and Peer Counselors in Athletics.
• Program Development Activities: develop, coordinate, evaluate and analyze psycho-educational programs and consultation activities in CAPS and Intercollegiate Athletic Department; identify and suggest areas and methods for development in Intercollegiate Athletics and student-athlete advising.

Psychology Doctoral Intern

• Direct Service Activities: provide individual, couples, and group counseling to a culturally diverse population of adults, adolescents and student-athletes, for personal, relationship, family, athletic, education and career concerns; crisis intervention; psychological assessments; workshops, psycho-educational groups, programs and presentations.
• Training Activities: supervise and evaluate the counseling and professional development activities of psychology practicum students.
• Consultation Activities: provide consultation to university staff and interns regarding difficult and complex students; consult with sport psychology, health sciences and intercollegiate athletic faculty, staff and student-athletes regarding outreach presentations, resources, referrals, development, support, and promotion of athletic education; consult with staff from CAPS and Intercollegiate Athletics Department.
• General Administrative Activities: articipate on the Student Athletic Advising Committee, Peer Counselors in Athletics.
• Program Development Activities: develop, coordinate, evaluate and analyze psycho-educational programs and consultation activities in CAPS and Intercollegiate Athletic Department; identify and suggest areas and methods for development in Intercollegiate Athletics and student-athlete advising.
• Research Coordination: research, develop, analyze, and report procedures to assess professional psychology competencies; ad-hoc reviewer for Professional Psychology Research in Practice.