Biography

Dr.Stephen D. Ross is a licensed Performance and Clinical Psychologist with over 12 years of experience working with professional, college and elite athletes, coaches and teams.

He is the principal of OPTIM, based out of Fort Collins, Colorado. His areas of expertise include:

Mental skills/toughness training

Achieving, optimizing and sustaining optimal performance states;

Mindfulness;

Team chemistry;

Recruiting assessments;

Designing and maintaining mental training rooms.

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Dr. Ross also specializes in working with players/athletes, coaches and support staff to foster environments that maximize motivation and trust, while decreasing fear-based learning and anxiety.

Dr. Ross utilizes a research based approach to creating and nurturing optimal team chemistry and individual mastery and confidence.

As a licensed Performance and Clinical Psychologist with over a decade of emergency training and experience, Dr. Ross is an expert in dealing with substance abuse issues, anxiety, depression, season/career ending injuries, and other major career and life transitions.

"Whatever you do or dream you can do - do it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." ~ Johann Goethe


"Make no small plans. ... they have no magic to stir men's blood." - Daniel Burnham


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Life Enhancement

Sport psychology in a nutshell is about optimizing performance.  Any performance.  The foundations of sport psychology have the broadest applications imaginable, hence the title, Life Enhancement.  Maslow talked about self actualization and how we have the capacity to move toward higher and higher levels of being.  And if you speak with anyone on that path, they will share a common theme.  The journey to self actualization is about compassion, positivity and an internal compass set on giving away more than you take.  Great athletes become role models when they not only actualize in their sport but also in their lives.  They understand the burden of celebrity and create lives focused on giving back, paying forward and living by example.  We all know the tragic tales of sports heroes who have lived lives of selfishness, self involvement and self destruction.  History is littered with such train wrecks.  Life Enhancement is about optimizing opportunities to be better, to do better...and once again has nothing to do with a statistic or a final score...but has everything to do with the purity and passion of the pursuit.    
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