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
