Sports Counseling Services and Integrated Mental Health Services
An Empirical Method to Elite Performance Incorporating Holistic Wellness for Body & Mind
A Path to Finding Meaning in Sport: Athletic Identity Aligned with Value Systems
"There are so many things that you don't know and that you can't control as an athlete.
So when we focus too much on result, the pressure is immense and we see the consequences of this result oriented approach everywhere... This isn't a method of balance.
This thing that you have to become or achieve becomes more important than who you become, and when you realize who you want to be, everything gets so much easier."
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-Dr. Janne R. Mortensen., Author of: "Reality and Dreams: A Comparison of Elite Athletes’ Lived Career Paths with Young Talented Athletes’ Imagined Career Paths."
Experience & Familiarity
As a competitive athlete myself as the Founder of Cuyahoga Mindful Health and Wellness, I have used strategies learned from graduate school and independent research to the benefit of multiple major wins at the endurance athletics national level post-collegiately, 1st overall Burning River 50mi, 2nd overall finishes at the Canton Marathon, Charleston Marathon and Myrtle Beach Marathon, 2x top-20 finisher at the Cleveland Marathon as recent as 2019 and top 15 finish at the Orange County Championship (LA, Cali.) Half Marathon.
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With 6 years of military experience, exposure to military resiliency training techniques through army training programs and in the NCAAs for Cross Country & Track and Field, my methods to mental fortitude for athletic performance carry traditions from many of Ohio's most renowned athletes and coaches.
I believe in an eclectic empirical approach rooted in core psychotherapeutic schools of science and branches of philosophy as core to a truly gifted athlete, both in body and mind.
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-Founder, Eric Riesterer
Performance Visualization
Many athletes find themselves biologically and physically capable of excellence concluded from countless workouts, measured metrics and other means of performance evaluation.
In my work as a Cross Country & Track and Field Coach as the Founder of Cuyahoga Valley Mindful Health & Wellness, I have worked with athletes to create real-world visualized scenarios of specific races.
With the assistance of a trained mental health specialist, your athlete will be able to identify his/her realistic strengths that can be applied to the performance scenario, both physical and mental, and gameplan psychological resiliency strategies to manage potential problems that could occur on game-day and outside of the playing field.
Services Offered
Adjustment Disorder Treatment
Athlete Goal-Setting (SMART Goals)
Body/Mind Connection Development
Depressive Disorder Treatment
Generalized Anxiety Treatment
Leadership Skill Development
Mental Health Treatment and Impact on Sport
Performance Anxiety Treatment
Performance Visualization
Psychological Resiliency Skill Development
Purpose & Meaning Exploration in Sport
Talk Therapy
Trauma Counseling (Body/Brain Connections... See: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma.)
Value Exploration