About Dr. Tim Harvey
Professional Background
As a competitive athlete, an elite professional coach, and a professional mental performance coach Dr. Tim has uniquely "been there, done that" giving him an understanding of what athletes, or performers of any kind, experience as they develop the technical competencies necessary in their sport followed by the difficult transition of using those competencies under the pressure of a competitive athletic competition. What should an athlete "think" about, what should they definitely NOT think about?
Dr. Harvey graduated with a BS from the College of William and Mary, a MA from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill with a concentration in motor skill acquisition, and a Ph.D. from The University of Maryland, College Park with a focus on the psychology of sport. Simultaneous with his academic preparation Dr. Harvey received his United States Professional Tennis Association accreditation and taught golf and tennis at both UNC and UMD. He was honored to have been selected as one of four Head Tennis Coaches for the United States Olympic Committee's US Olympic Festivals leading up to the Atlanta Games. Tim has been selected USPTA Professional of the Year in the Mid-Atlantic (Virginia, Maryland, D.C.) and has spoken regionally and nationally on mental performance to college teams, high school teams, USTA, and USPTR conferences, to elite swim academies, as well as working with professional and elite athletes in tennis, swimming, golf, soccer, polo, track, and Teaching Professionals. The specific sport, however, is somewhat irrelevant and mental skills training is NOT sport specific per se.
Dr. Harvey works with individuals and also passionately believes in the necessity of collaboration with private coaches and coaching staffs in attempting to improve an athlete's skill set and competitive performances via practical mental skills training. Optimal and peak performances are only achieved with a symbiosis of technical skill and knowledge, proper physical conditioning, nutrition, proper sleep patterns, and proscribed pre competition, intra-competition, and post competition routines, mistake management strategies, intensity regulation, eye control awareness, and achieving realistic self-confidence first in practice and then competition.
