Professional
Counseling
Professional
Counseling
About: coaching
Build the mental skills to meet the demands of performance.
Brynne Goldberg, LPC, brings her training as a licensed therapist and a modern psychoanalytic perspective to performance coaching for athletes and high achievers across the U.S. and internationally.
Together, you’ll explore what drives recurring performance challenges and use those insights to develop practical strategies for how you train, compete, work, and respond under pressure.
what we can work on
Coaching helps you understand what gets in the way of performing the way you know you can. You might be looking to:
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Stay focused when the stakes are high
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Rebuild confidence after an injury, setback, or time away
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Respond to mistakes without losing focus on what comes next
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Develop preparation routines you can rely on under pressure
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Understand how perfectionism or fear of failure affects your decisions
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Balance the demands of training, competition, work, and everyday life
how coaching works
Initial interview — Brynne begins with a comprehensive interview to understand your history, goals, and responses to performance demands. She examines how your thoughts, emotions, physical reactions, communication, and behavior interact under pressure to identify factors that may contribute to recurring difficulties.
Point of performance — Together, you’ll review a specific situation moment by moment to identify where your response begins to interfere with your intended action. This might be when you start second-guessing a decision during competition, lose your train of thought in an interview, or hold back after someone questions your recommendation in a meeting. The strategies you develop together are tailored to what happens for you at that point.
Goal setting and strategy development — You and Brynne will establish goals and develop a plan with upcoming competitions, interviews, presentations, or meetings in mind. As coaching progresses, you’ll rehearse strategies in session, apply them in real situations, and refine them based on your experience. The aim is to build a set of skills you can use consistently and reduce the frequency, intensity, and impact of performance difficulties over time.
Session structure is tailored to your needs — Sessions may focus on preparation for a specific event, include structured skills practice, or address broader concerns in sport, work, and everyday life that affect how you perform.
ways to work together
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Individual Coaching — One-on-one sessions for athletes and high achievers who want to work on specific performance goals. Virtual coaching is available across the U.S. and internationally, including for athletes traveling for training or competition.
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Group & Team Coaching — Mental skills sessions for teams and sports organizations. Sessions can focus on shared goals such as communicating under pressure or resetting after mistakes.
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On-Site Coaching — Support during select practices, training sessions, or competitions, arranged based on your goals and availability.
How Coaching
Differs From Therapy
Coaching is a nonclinical service centered on performance goals. You can explore how emotions, expectations, and past experiences affect the way you perform, then use what you learn to guide what you practice.
Therapy is a clinical service that can include mental health assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. It can also address emotional or behavioral patterns that affect your life across sport, work, and relationships. Brynne’s training as a licensed therapist helps her recognize when a concern may benefit from clinical care and discuss therapy or an appropriate referral with you.