Hi, I'm Tom.

Why parents

Parents come to me when they can see their child struggling with the pressure of sport. They know “go for a run” or “toughen up” won’t help. But that’s often all they were given growing up, so they don’t have anything better to offer.

They care a lot, they’re investing a lot, and nobody has shown them how to support a child through real pressure.

The research

For my MSc I researched athlete transitions: what happens when sport changes around an athlete, and who they are when it does. What helped and what didn’t. A lot of what athletes described started years earlier, at home, in the way sport was talked about and the space it was given.

That research is the backbone of how I work with families now. Young athletes go through transition after transition: moving up an age group, joining a pathway program, injury, missing selection, and one day stepping away. I coach your child for the pressure of each one, help you and your child keep your relationship strong through all of it, and make sure sport doesn’t become the only thing they are.

How I work

Plain language, practical tools and no jargon. I work with any sport, in person in Sydney or online. I’m a mental performance coach, working towards registration as a psychologist with AHPRA.