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LEVEL UP YOUR MIND, LEVEL UP YOUR GAME
Unlocking athletes’ peak performance goes beyond physical skill development. I work with you to strengthen your mind so you can transform into your best self.
Meet Sarah
I help athletes optimize their cognitive function and develop superior mental abilities as athletes and high performers. Through mindset work, focus and mental skills training, reflection, addressing subconscious beliefs, and enhancing positive-self talk, athletes will boost not only their performance but also their feelings of fulfillment and overall wellness and stress reduction in their question in sports.
OFFERINGS
How We Can Work Together
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Mental Performance Coaching
Through a collaborative self-assessment and goal-setting process, we’ll identify what’s getting in your way and where you want to go. From there, we build a personalized mental performance toolkit — with strategies like mental preparation, visualization, breathwork, focus training, and reflective work to uncover limiting beliefs. You’ll strengthen your self-talk, boost confidence and self-efficacy, manage performance anxiety, and tap into flow states more consistently. The goal? Greater mental clarity, emotional steadiness, and the ability to perform with calm, confidence, and control.
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Wellness Therapy
For anyone seeking to optimize their life, I offer holistic wellness therapy that takes a dynamic and flexible approach to find a path that best suits each individual seeking support. My work is strength-based, and influenced by and rooted in multiple modalities, including Motivational Interviewing, Psychodynamic Approach, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Intersectional Feminist Therapy.
Insights & Inspiration
This is a space for folks who are interested in learning more about mental performance outside of sessions with me. I spend much of my time consuming as much content related to the subject as I can, so I will use this space to share resources and media.
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Kind Words
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Aggie Zao
Sarah is every runner/mom/friend’s greatest ally… She is the greatest listener and can extract the essence of what I am struggling with and what I am trying to achieve. Her homework is soul searching, ranging from meditating to listening to podcasts. Working with her helped me shave off over a minute from my pre pregnancy 10K PR. And for us - this is just the beginning.
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Laura Mitchell Wilde
Sarah is an enthusiastic and powerful voice in the mental performance space. She will help you go further than you knew you could!
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Erika Rubinstein Irby
Sarah is a skilled people person. Her coaching skills have been honed from years of experience in a myriad of settings, from after-school programs and summer camps, to clinical social work in schools. She balances enthusiasm, humor, empathy, and CBT skills to guide folks through stressful situations.
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Nelson Maxwell
Coach Sarah displayed a natural ability to connect with athletes as a coach/mentor, which contributed to the team’s operations and success when performing. Sarah excels at motivating athletes as well the coworkers around her, taking note of how to drive, motivate and care for each individual uniquely.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Sarah Swanger
I’m a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, and mental performance coach with a deep passion for helping people thrive under pressure. A lifelong competitive athlete and performer, I grew up immersed in sports—from track and field to cross country, tennis, volleyball, and basketball—and have coached both teams and individuals to reach their full potential. I also bring years of rigorous musical and theatrical training to my work, giving me a unique perspective on the mental demands of high-stakes performance.