Our Services
Psychology for Performance, Leadership & Life
Performance looks different for everyone.
For an athlete, it may mean trusting their training when the pressure rises. For a leader, it may mean making a difficult decision when the stakes are high. For a parent, coach, or team, it may mean knowing what to do when the path forward isn't clear.
Achieve Performance Psychology works with athletes, parents, coaches, executives, teams, and organizations to apply the science of psychology to the moments that matter most. Our work is individualized, evidence-based, and focused on helping people pursue meaningful goals while staying connected to what matters along the way.
Sport and Performance Psychology
Performance isn't about eliminating nerves, doubt, mistakes, or difficult emotions. It's developing the skills to perform effectively even when those experiences show up.
Our sport and performance psychology services help athletes strengthen confidence, focus, psychological flexibility, and the mental skills needed to navigate pressure, setbacks, competition, and the demands of sport.
We work individually with youth, high school, collegiate, elite, professional, Olympic, and Paralympic athletes. Sessions are individualized to the athlete and may include work around performance anxiety, confidence, perfectionism, motivation, injury, identity, mental preparation, and performing under pressure.
Parent Support and Training
Being a sport parent can be incredibly rewarding and incredibly hard. Parents are often trying to support their child's goals while navigating competition, playing time, pressure, setbacks, burnout, recruiting, and knowing when to step in and when to step back.
We work with parents and families to better understand their role in their child's athletic journey, strengthen the parent-athlete relationship, and learn practical ways to support confidence, resilience, autonomy, and a healthy relationship with sport.
Parent support may include navigating difficult car rides home, responding to mistakes and disappointment, preventing burnout, communicating with coaches, supporting an injured athlete, and helping your child pursue meaningful goals without losing the joy that brought them to sport in the first place.
Team and Group Sessions
High-performing teams need more than talented individuals. How athletes communicate, respond to pressure, handle mistakes, and work together can have a significant impact on both individual and team performance.
Achieve works with athletic teams, coaches, and support staff to build practical mental performance skills that can be applied in training, competition, and throughout the season. Sessions may focus on confidence, communication, performing under pressure, team culture, leadership, resilience, and responding effectively to setbacks.
Team services can range from a single workshop or team session to ongoing performance psychology support throughout a season. Programs are tailored to the needs, goals, and culture of each team and can be provided in person or virtually.
Injury, Rehabilitation & Return to Sport
Injuries can affect both the body and the mind. It can impact confidence, identity, motivation, mood, and an athlete's sense of connection to their sport.
Achieve works with athletes throughout the injury and rehabilitation process to navigate the psychological challenges that can come with being sidelined and returning to competition. Support may include fear of reinjury, loss of confidence, athletic identity, motivation during rehabilitation, coping with setbacks, and psychological readiness to return to sport.
Dr. Katie Peterson specializes in supporting athletes through injury, rehabilitation, and return to performance, helping athletes build the psychological skills to move through recovery and return to the activities that matter to them.
Performance Psychology for Coaches
Coaching is a performance role too. Coaches are expected to make decisions in real time, communicate when emotions are high, build trust, respond to mistakes, and somehow stay grounded while everyone around them is looking to them for direction.
Our work with coaches can focus on their own performance as much as the athletes they lead. That may mean navigating difficult conversations, creating a team culture that reflects what they value, communicating more effectively, or recognizing how their own reactions to pressure influence the people around them.
We also help coaches better understand the psychology behind confidence, motivation, resilience, and athlete development—so they can know when to challenge, when to support, and when to give an athlete room to figure it out.
Executive and Leadership Performance
Executive coaching can have many benefits for business professionals which include but not limited to: Increasing productivity, overall performance-enhancement, expanding skill sets, learning effective communication, improving culture and team morale, developing and sustaining consistent confidence, awareness of distress behavior, and emotional regulation.
Achieve will begin by conducting an initial intake and comprehensive assessment followed by goal-setting and creating an action plan, skill development, building self-awareness, and monitoring progress while giving constructive feedback.
We work one on one with professionals, leaders of organizations, and large groups within companies. Reach out to learn more about how to fuel your passion and success within the workplace.
Performance Psychology for Creators & Public-Facing Professionals
Building a career in the public eye brings opportunities, but also unique psychological demands. Content creators, influencers, entertainers, and other public-facing professionals often navigate constant feedback, visibility, criticism, and the pressure to remain relevant.
At Achieve Performance Psychology, we apply the same evidence-based psychological principles used with elite athletes, executives, and other high performers to support individuals working in these environments. Our work focuses on navigating pressure, developing psychological flexibility, maintaining a sense of identity beyond professional success, and making decisions aligned with personal values.
Whether you're managing the demands of a growing audience, navigating career transitions, or working to maintain your well-being in a highly visible profession, our approach is individualized to your experiences and goals.
Speaking and Workshops
Sometimes the best way to create change is to bring the conversation to the whole room.
Drs. Allie Wagener and Katie Peterson provide keynotes, workshops, and interactive presentations for businesses, healthcare organizations, athletic programs, coaches, and teams. Drawing from sport and performance psychology, our presentations take complex psychological concepts and make them practical, memorable, and relevant to the challenges people are actually facing.
Topics range from performing under pressure and leadership to burnout, team culture, psychological flexibility, injury, and mental performance. Presentations can be customized to the audience and delivered as a single keynote or workshop, a series, or part of ongoing organizational support.
Psychological Testing & ADHD Assessment
Getting the right answers can change what happens next.
Dr. Katie Peterson leads Achieve's psychological assessment services, providing comprehensive evaluations for ADHD, learning disabilities, and other psychological concerns. The goal is not simply to arrive at a diagnosis, but to better understand how someone thinks, learns, and functions—and what may help them move forward.
Following the evaluation, individuals and families receive clear feedback and recommendations they can use to guide next steps at home, school, work, or with other providers.
Take The First Step
Not sure where to start? Tell us a little about what you're looking for, and we'll help determine which Achieve service or provider may be the best fit.
Whether you're looking for individual support, psychological testing, executive performance work, team services, or speaking and workshops, we'd be happy to hear from you.