AID STATION
Performance Therapy and Coaching
PERFORMANCE AND MENTAL HEALTH THERAPY
For Anyone Wanting to Feel and/or Perform Better
Aid Station Performance Therapy utilizes the expertise of Mike Grant as therapist, coach and athlete to provide you with the guidance and tools to assist people in healing from trauma, reach their goals, and achieve their potential.
Success will be achieved through a combination of therapeutic modalities such as; Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Brainspotting, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Mindfulness strategies to help folks break through conscious and subconscious beliefs and experiences that may be having a negative effective on joy, performance, and progress to goals.
Aid Station will primarily utilize EMDR therapy and Brainspotting to help people/athletes overcome common mental and emotional symptoms that can impede progress and performance. Example of these performance block can be:
Fear
Uncertainty
Intrusive thoughts
Inability to execute muscle memory movements
Feeling of being locked, stuck, or frozen
Anxiety
Inconsistency
Avoidance
Frustration
Studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference in a much shorter time frame. EMDR therapy involves attention to three time periods: the past, present, and future. Focus is given to past disturbing memories and related events as well as current situations that cause distress, and to developing the skills and attitudes needed for positive future actions.
Brainspotting can be a powerful and effective treatment to assist people heal from trauma, reach their goals, and achieve their potential. Brainspotting works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of other challenging symptoms.
Individual Mental Health Therapy is available in 3 different settings, in-person, virtual, and/or motion-based outdoor activity such as walking, hiking, and/or running.
Peak Performance Therapy is available in all settings. Will work from a desired outcome focus and create a tailored mental training plan to assist in reaching this goal.
Group mental coaching can include sports and business teams and will focus on optimizing peak performance with a multiday mindset workshop.
RUN COACHING
For Runners and Aspiring Runners
Aid station draws on Mike's training as a UESCA certified running coach, years of personal running experience and professional therapist training to give you one of the most in-depth run coaching experience available. Mike will provide you with the guidance and tools to build your strength and endurance while dialing in your race strategy for your most prepared performance yet.
Mike will work with you collaboratively to design a flexible training program that matches your fitness level and is tailored to the distance, terrain, and conditions of the event you are targeting. Mike is a therapist and a coach; he is going to ask questions and listen.
Run coaching services are managed through a partnership with Wy'east Wolfpack.
DETAILS
All info can be further discussed via email
Schedule a consultation call to determine the best route to meet your goals.
Where:
Performance sports therapy will be offered virtual or in person at team site or at our location in NE Portland in our Kerns Office.
Cost:
Individual and Peak Performance Therapy- $150 per session, we do not currently accept insurance.
Group multiday Mindset Training cost can vary and will be discussed during consultation.
Commitment:
Due to the nature of this work a commitment of three therapeutic sessions and/or 3 months of coaching is requested.