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Sport psychology insight informing people passionate about performance & mental health. Find out more: https://themindroom.substack.com themindroom.substack.com

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7:50

How to fix sport psychology's 'quick fix' problem

The Mind Room ·

2026/04/12

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.comA once high-flying side comes crashing down to earth with a series of devastating losses. A press conference is called. The side’s coach announces the appointment of a sport psychologist. Unfortunately, as many readers will know, the above scenario is more fact than fiction (just take a look at the build-up to Sascha Lense’s spell as Manchester United’s…

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6:01

How to setup and run a sport psychology lab

The Mind Room ·

2026/04/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.comElectrodes pinned to people’s heads. Screens showing everything from neural activity to heartrate variability. Lab technicians making minute adjustments to polygraph machines. The stereotypical image of a sport psychology laboratory is well-worn. But are images of AC Milan’s Mind Room (the inspiration behind this newsletter) still relevant to running a …

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9:51

Exclusive: Michael Caulfield on why conversation...

The Mind Room ·

2026/03/30

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.com"You're the best sport psychologist I have ever worked with…because you didn't do psychology with me, you treated me.....normally. When I was having a dip in form, you knew what to say, but most of all, when I had some personal issues away from football, you literally just sat with me, did nothing, said nothing, and I can't tell you how much that meant".

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3:56

What players want from psychologists

The Mind Room ·

2026/02/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.com'Sam, what's going on?’Four fairly innocuous words that changed the course of Sam Winnall's career. The ex-Derby County striker was speaking to the club's doctor about symptoms that had seen him feeling low and withdrawing from friends and family, when the question came. The conversation that followed would end with a referral to mental health therapy. …

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3:11

Inside Australia's national wellbeing system

The Mind Room ·

2026/01/11

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.comIt’s not often you speak to someone who’s gone from working with British bobsledders to Australian rowers, so when Bianca Fermi talks about the challenges of establishing a nationwide wellbeing program, you know it’s not an exercise in hyperbole. In an exclusive interview with The Mind Room, Fermi, who moved to Australia in 2019 after after a two-year s…

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3:01

Why mental health support for African players needs...

The Mind Room ·

2025/12/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.com“Africa is 10 years behind in addressing mental health.”Ex-Botswana national team psychologist Dr. Tshepang Tshube, speaking to Jonathan HardingThe days of the Africa Cup of Nations being derided as some kind of second-rate tournament are largely over. The 2024 tournament was watched by an estimated audience of more than 2 billion people. Over the next …

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2:00

From the Ryder Cup to Wigan: inside the...

The Mind Room ·

2025/11/28

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.comThis is the second half of a two-part conversation with Team Europe & Wigan Warriors psychologist Tom Young. To catch up on Part 1, click here or use the embedded link below.It’s not often that the Ryder Cup and rugby league are mentioned in the same breath. The contrast between the sun-drenched fairways of Bethpage and rain-soaked pitches in Wigan is s…

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2:22

From the Ryder Cup to Wigan: inside the...

The Mind Room ·

2025/11/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.comIt’s not often that the Ryder Cup and rugby league are mentioned in the same breath. The contrast between the sun-drenched fairways of Bethpage and rain-soaked pitches in Wigan is stark, to say the least. But, in the form of Luke Donald and Matt Peet, the competitions share two standout leaders. Psychologist Tom Young has been fortunate enough to work w…

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47:28

Exclusive: Building Chelsea's sport science &...

The Mind Room ·

2025/10/31

Sometimes, stats really help to paint a picture. Tim Harkness worked at Chelsea for 14 years, between 2009 and 2023, during which time the London club won 14 major trophies. Whilst no-one's claiming that Tim’s time at the club was as significant as some of the coaches he worked with, from Jose Mourinho to Carlo Ancelotti, it’s also true that sustained sporting success (spanning different coaches, owners and, of course, players) is usually underpinned by sound backroom practices. In the second part

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2:25

How to integrate sport psychology across an elite...

The Mind Room ·

2025/10/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.comPerformance directors have a huge say in how seriously an organisation treats sport psychology. They can ensure the profession is integrated effectively alongside other support specialisms - or decide the discipline isn’t really their cup of tea. But despite their influence, there’s precious little publicly-available insight about how they view psycholo…

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47:25

Exclusive: Building Chelsea's sport science &...

The Mind Room ·

2025/10/03

Sometimes, stats really help to paint a picture. Tim Harkness worked at Chelsea for 14 years, between 2009 and 2023, during which time the London club won 14 major trophies. Whilst there’s no argument that Tim’s time at the club was as significant as some of the coaches he worked with, from Jose Mourinho to Carlo Ancelotti, it’s also true that sustained sporting success (spanning different coaches, owners and, of course, players) is usually underpinned by sound backroom practices. In this episode of

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1:11

How To Psychologically Prepare For The Ryder Cup

The Mind Room ·

2025/09/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.com “If I was Luke Donald, I would be getting together and - understanding and respecting that each individual player has their own way of mentally dealing with pressure - saying, ‘How can we share ways that each individual is going to deal with the pressure and how can we help each other to do that?’….I think it’s that coordination of managing the (crowd)…

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3:08

Sport Psychology Snapshot

The Mind Room ·

2025/09/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.comHello Mind Room Members! In this edition of the Sport Psychology Snapshot series, I run a quick health check over the profession’s job market, analysing the organisations and teams hiring sport psychologists (as well as mental performance and player care & wellbeing professionals), reflect on insights from interviews with Stuart Middleton, Jon Brady and…

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2:22

How sport psychologists can influence coach recruitment

The Mind Room ·

2025/08/31

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.comIt only takes two fingers to count the number of sport psychologists I’ve spoken to about their involvement in coach recruitment. I talked to the first of the pair, Alex Auerbach, last year, as part of a conversation in which the ex-Toronto Raptors Head of Wellness & Development revealed how his behaviour-based questioning and character assessments help…

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1:51

How to recover from severe sporting setbacks

The Mind Room ·

2025/08/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.comBodies strewn across the turf. Players locked in thousand-yard stares. This wasn't how the last day of Northampton's season was meant to look.The end of the 2021-22 campaign will live with Jon Brady forever. His side were seemingly set for automatic promotion from English football's League Two. 25 minutes into the final match of the season, their closes…

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6:20

What coaches want from psychologists

The Mind Room ·

2025/08/14

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.com“I was interested in how could we move away from the experience of sport psychology we'd had - that I didn't think was particularly impactful - to one really focused on what I believed was the essence of what we were all trying to do, which was drive performance on the field.”Simon Middleton doesn’t waste words. The former England head coach, who led th…

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3:03

Why sport psychology's next generation need a new...

The Mind Room ·

2025/08/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.comBusiness development. Entrepreneurship. Marketing. Not three of the skills you’d necessarily associate with becoming a sport psychologist, but a trio of competencies that are increasingly important for students and trainees to understand. That’s the view of Dr Nick Wadsworth, psychologist and senior lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, who spok…

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69:18

England vs India: psychologically preparing for the...

The Mind Room ·

2025/07/30

Childish. Emotional. Tiresome. Whatever your take on the antagonism that marked the end of the fourth test between England and India, it’s difficult to argue that the episode has done anything other than intensify the mental battle that will play out during the series decider at The Oval. Predicting how the two teams will psychologically prepare for the fifth Test is trickier, though. In this episode of The Mind Room podcast, Harshal Patel, Indian T20 international, and Tim Harkness, Head of Soccer

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1:59

Who's taking responsibility for footballers' mental...

The Mind Room ·

2025/07/18

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.com“We don’t lack care, but we lack coherence…there’s a lack of clarity, shared language and understanding…and it creates some cracks that might be not beneficial for the players and staff who actually need support.”Leif Gunnar Smerud might be the only coach in Europe with a UEFA Pro Licence and clinical psychology qualification to his name.The ex-Crystal …

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2:27

Sports teams' organisational design dilemma

The Mind Room ·

2025/07/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit themindroom.substack.comEditor's note: a quick reminder that you still have a day to claim 25% off Mind Room Membership! Just hit the button below to activate your discount (and enjoy the podcast & article!) “ Clubs say to coaches, ‘You’ve go to manage all the players, the 50 staff that we have and manage up to the CEO and across’…but there’s really no education (for coaches) …

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