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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Sport Psychology and Greatness

I have often said that sport psychology in its applied form, is about taking athletes, performers and others from good to great.  Health and wellness in past generations has been focused on taking people from bad to good...or at the very least from bad to better.  This generation however, is moving more fully into a much more holistic awareness of personal responsibility in decison making that optimizes opportunities for having a rich and full life.  As a sport psychologist, I am definitely drawn to the field because of the focus on the positive.  The high performance brain is functionally and organically different from the low performance brain. It is quite literally wired to succeed, wired to push past obstacles, wired to turn any experience into an opportunity to test its limits.  In my field, I am in the business of showing people how to plant, fertilize and reap the amazing harvests of great brains....what a cool job.
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