Performance and General Psychologist

MAppPsych (Sport & Exercise), BA (Psych), PGDip(Psych), MAPS (CoSEP) Medicare Registered Psychologist | Sport & Exercise Psychology Registrar

Tomas is passionate about working with individuals, teams, and organisations to help people achieve their optimal performance in all areas of life. He has worked with the Paralympic Swim Team at the 2016 Rio Paralympics and a number of Qld Swimming Squads over the past 5 years. He has previously been an Elite Athlete followed by a coaching career spanning more than a decade and his research and expertise is in examining coach-athlete relationships and collaborative methods for meeting peak performance.

Works With

Tomas works with clients from primary school through to masters aged athletes across a wide range of contexts including Swimming, Triathlon, Gymnastics, Tennis, Rugby league, Pilots, Cheerleading, Musicians, and Dancers.

Main Interest Areas

Tomas is an expert in ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Training) and Mindfulness, while also integrating other therapeutic techniques such as CBT, Self-Compassion, Family Systems, Neuropsychotherapy and Positive Psychology. This scientific research-base is used to help clients change their relationship with challenges to promote healthy coping strategies for the following presenting issues:

- Performance and generalised anxiety

- Depression

- Enhanced motivation to reach their goals

- Enhanced capacity to minimise the impact of distractions

- Building self-confidence

- Burnout and overtraining

- Developing healthy team dynamics and culture

- Disturbed sleep/insomnia

- Communication skill development

- Building effective leadership skills

- Learning effective recovery strategies to bounce back

Style

Tomas has a warm, energetic, and engaging counselling and facilitation style that is dynamic and focused on practical skills. His goal is always to try and help clients achieve their best version of themselves, across all contexts of life.

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