CERTIFIED MENTAL PERFORMANCE CONSULTANT & SPORT PSYCHOLOGY

Michigan & nationwide

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Do you perform great in practice but freeze, overthink, or panic in big games?

Do you have unpredictable hot-and-cold streaks that leave you frustrated and confused?

Does one bad play, mistake, or call ruin the rest of the game for you?

Are you medically cleared after an injury but still afraid of re-injury, making you play timidly?

Do you have pressure from coaches, parents, or yourself drained your love for the game?

You’ve invested in training and programs, but to break through you need a certified mental performance consultant.

Sharpen focus, build toughness, grow genuine confidence, perform under pressure, and recover from setbacks. Only 18 CMPCs are listed in Michigan; Dr. John Evans is one of five running a private practice open to the public. Many licensed clinicians offer performance psychology without sport-specific credentials. With 20+ years’ experience, including U.S. Special Forces, Dr. Evans’ BLND Performance provides one-on-one mental skills training for high school, collegiate, and pro athletes. Athletes, parents, and coaches seeking a mental edge can contact Dr. John Evans and the BLND Performance team.

  • Athletes & Sports Teams

    We help athletes build skills that support steady top performance and deep enjoyment of their sport.

    We focus on the athlete’s needs first. We work not just with the athlete but also with parents, coaches, and teams. By encouraging open communication and shared goals, we build a supportive environment that helps the athlete grow and succeed.

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  • Career Professionals

    Specializing in performance for professionals, working with executives, C-suite leaders, and teams to enhance leadership, productivity, and team cohesion. Also providing mental skills training for first responders, including military personnel, firefighters, and police officers, to help them maintain peak performance under high-stress conditions.

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  • Academic & Performance

    Empowering dancers, actors, and musicians to overcome performance hurdles and express their artistry fully, while also guiding students through challenging academic pursuits. This includes supporting those in medical and law school, preparing for entrance exams such as the MCAT and LSAT, as well as professional graduate school entrance exams, board examinations, and licensing for career credentials.

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  • <autoplay speed=5></autoplay>“Thanks for helping me become a better player and person. I truly believe it helped my game overall to perform more consistently and be present, especially in crucial situations and under lots of pressure!”

    — Professional Men’s Hockey Player

  • “John has worked with my team as a whole and with a number of players on an individual basis. I too work with and seek coaching, leadership and performance guidance from John. He’s basically part of the team. I can confidently say that John has impacted our team’s results, our culture and our overall experience playing/coaching. We are better competitively and our players are better teammates, students, and community members on our campus.”

    — College Women’s Soccer Coach

  • “Engaging in mental performance training has allowed me to confront my own internal critic and face the fears that hinder my athletic performance. John taught me how to align my actions and goals to my values. Now, I experience improved focus, boosted confidence, and better control over anxiety, making a significant difference in both my sport performance and personal well-being.”

    — Women’s Division 3 Soccer Player

  • “For years and years in my gymnastics career, I would perform perfectly in practice, but I found it incredibly difficult to translate that to competitions. I could physically do what I needed to, but I would overthink and screw myself up on the simplest of things. Eventually, I tried mental training. Despite my initial skepticism, it actually worked; I was finally able to perform to the best of my abilities and even qualified for finals at Nationals!”

    — Men’s Division 1 Gymnast

TRAIN YOUR MIND.
GAIN THE COMPETITIVE EDGE.
DOMINATE THE COMPETITION

Our performance division uses evidence-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to build psychological flexibility and mental skills. We teach cognitive defusion (unhooking from unhelpful thoughts/feelings), coping with pressure and adversity, reframing performance anxiety, building genuine confidence and resilience, improving attention, and taking value-driven action toward goals. Live mindfully in pursuit of your values. Perform with consistency and enjoyment.

“Performance outcomes depend on the degree to which the performer accepts his or her own internal experiences as normal and naturally occurring; is willing to persist on task despite these experiences; and maintains attentional focus on the environmental task at hand rather than on his or her internal thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations.”

(Garner & Moore, 2007, The Psychology of Enhancing Human Performance.)

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Develop the necessary skills to perform well consistently and find greater enjoyment in the process.

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  • Developing strategies to accept that nerves aren’t necessarily unhelpful and optimize focus under pressure.

  • Real confidence isn’t always “feeling” like you will succeed; it’s a process of action, commitment to skill mastery, distress tolerance, and improvement where the feelings are a byproduct of the process.

  • While outcome goals, performance goals, and SMART goals are great, they can often lack the “why” and level of commitment toward that goal and a hyperfocus on the goal itself. Values provide a way of harnessing attention in the present, on controllable behaviors and decisions that are goal-oriented.

  • Providing mental tools to cope with setbacks, maintain motivation, and accelerate the return to peak performance.

  • Guiding individuals through significant life and career changes, including transitioning out of sport, moving to higher levels of competition, or navigating tryouts for elite teams.

  • Offering support and strategies for managing difficult relationships with coaches and teammates.

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Enhance your performance

Take the first step toward consistent performance and a process you're proud of.

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