About Liquid Sport
Psychology

Liquid Sport Psychology specialise in elite junior sports. Our philosophy is based on doctoral research, and we work tirelessly to help junior performers excel in their chosen sports.
We pride ourselves on creating strong relationships with junior athletes, their coaches, and their parents. It is important our work is not done in isolation so we work with the player, their coach, and parents to create bespoke personal development plans that add to the players existing coaching programme. We believe strong, positive relationships are vital for juniors to reach their potential.

Sport psychology is the study of how the mind influences sport performance and how sport performance influences the mind. The interrelated nature of how mind affects performance and how performance affects mind means that sport psychology is a liquid concept. Coaches, athletes, and their parents must adapt when the challenge of achieving high-level performance affects how we understand ourselves in a sporting context.

Sport provides similar challenges to those we experience in everyday life – competition, managing relationships, resolving conflicts, evaluating success, maintaining confidence, coping with stressors. Liquid Sport Psychology uses bespoke models to help elite sporting juniors and coaches understand sporting challenges. Once you strip away abstract sports science theory you see sporting challenges for what they really are, the same challenges we face and overcome in everyday life.

For Athletes...

Liquid Sport Psychology adopts a philosophy based on learning, understanding, and accepting sporting challenges. Initial consultation involves identifying the issues that impact on athletes’sporting performance.
We use a self-reflective approach to help athletes understand why their mindset affects physical performance. We work with junior athletes, the coach, and their parents to create an individualised personal development programme. We give insight into challenges such as:
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  • Motivation
  • Fear of failure
  • Managing expectations
  • Confidence
  • Emotion control
  • Performance anxiety
  • Pre-performance planning

When athletes understand their challenges with greater clarity, we use a bespoke athlete development model to help athletes cope effectively with their challenges and thrive at their chosen sport.

We offer the following services to junior athletes:

  • One to one coaching (face to face or Zoom)
  • Tournament visits
  • Group classroom based seminars​
Athletes working with Liquid Sport Psychology will receive a free gift pack.  The gift pack includes one training top, wrist band, and stress ball.  Please use the contact form to find out more about working with Liquid Sport Psychology.

For Coaches...

Our research into coaching elite junior tennis players is published by the world governing body of tennis (The International Tennis Federation). Coaches like athletes must get the best out of themselves so that they can help athletes. It is important that coaches receive support to sustain their professional performance and have the confidence to develop their coaching philosophies.
Liquid Sport Psychology uses a model of expertise development that can help coaches understand how and why the challenging nature of coaching can influence their effectiveness, their motivation, and their professional self-understanding.
We use our research and specialist analysis to give coaches further insight into coaching from 3 different perspectives – player / coach / parent.

For example:

Athlete related challenges – Empathetic accuracy between coach and player, player meta perspectives and their effect on player behaviour, talent development environment.


Parent related challenges – Unintentional pressure, reverse dependency, power relations in the athlete triad.


Coach related challenges – Self-employment, competition between coaches, professional self-understanding.
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We offer self-reflective coach education workshops.  Our workshops provide evidence based insights into the psychology of coaching, sport pedagogy, coach-athlete relationships, coach-parent relationships, and professional self-understanding. 
 
To find out more, please use the contact form below.
“The Challenges Facing Young Tennis Coaches” – (ITF) - Click on Icon to the right...

Published Work...

My work is published by the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), International Tennis Federation (ITF), and Sport Coaching Review. A list of my peer review articles are listed below and you can download them to read at your convenience.
“The Challenges Facing Young Tennis Coaches” – (ITF) - Click on Download Arrow Icon on the black bar on the image to the right...
“Accepting The Challenges Of Coaching. How Experienced Coaches Adapt – (ITF) - Click on Download Arrow Icon on the black bar on the image to the right...
“Preoccupation with results can be damaging for young coaches” – (ITF) - Click on Download Arrow Icon on the black bar on the image to the right...
“The performance narrative in junior tennis” – (ITF) - Click on Download Arrow Icon on the black bar on the image to the right...
"Slippage” in the talent development environment of elite junior
tennis players - (ITF) - Click on Download Arrow Icon on the black
​bar on the image to the right...

Liquid Bytes...

You can view our short Sport Psychology videos on our Facebook or Instagram pages...

Venues we work from...

We work individually with athletes all over the world. Some of the UK venues we work closely with to deliver on-site group and individual support are:
 
Bolton RPDC - https://www.boltonarena.com/tennis

Millfield Prep Tennis - https://www.millfieldschool.com

Alderley Edge School for Girls - https://www.aesg.co.uk

Billericay TC – https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/Billericayltc
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Birchwood Tennis – https://livewirewarrington.co.uk

    Contact us...
​To find out more about our services please use this
contact form or call Dr. Callum Gowling on 0787 2990251 

email: [email protected]

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