Patrick Cohn

Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes and teams worldwide from a variety of sport backgrounds improve mental toughness for sports. He’s helped junior to NHL hockey players improve their mental toughness. As the president and founder of Peak Performance Sports (Orlando, Florida), Dr. Cohn is dedicated to instilling confidence, composure, focus, and teaching powerful mental game skills to help athletes, teams and corporate professionals perform at maximum levels. Dr. Cohn also teaches sports parents and coaches of young athletes how to help athletes achieve peak performance through sports psychology training. In addition, he teaches his mental game coaching system, the MGCP certification program (Mental Game Coaching Professional) to qualified coaches, trainers, and sports psychology students in training.

Helping Sports Kids Cope with Mistakes

Preview Dr. Cohn’s new program, The Composed Sports Kid, watch this video: Related Articles on Hockey Mental Game: *Subscribe to The Sports Psychology Podcast on iTunes*Subscribe to The Sports Psychology Podcast on Spotify The Mental Edge for Hockey The Mental Edge for Hockey teaches you proven and simple mental game strategies so you can overcome fear of failure, lack of confidence,

Your Mental Game and Game Time Trust

Do You Trust Your Skill Come Game Time? Your mental game of hockey helps you balance both learning skills and performing in competition. Do you have trouble bringing your practice game skills to competition? Many hockey players tighten up, over think and try too hard during competition, which can cause them to under-perform. You practice countless hours to

Intensity Boosts Your Mental Focus in Hockey

Making Your Intensity Consistent in Hockey Playing with the proper intensity is important to play your best hockey. Your intensity might not always be consistent. Some games, you might be psyched up and ready to play while other times, you might lack interest or feel bored, which hurts your ability to concentrate. When your

The Minnesota Wild’s Comeback

What Mental Game Skills Did Minnesota Use? The mental game of hockey is critical when you’re down big in a game and need a miracle. The Minnesota Wild were down by 4 goals with one period left playing at home. But they mounted a massive comeback in the third period and won a shootout

When Hockey Confidence is Fragile

Regaining Confidence After a Bad Hit in Hockey I receive emails everyday from sports parents and athletes asking for help with their mental game and it often is about questions on confidence. And hockey parents want help too with their young hockey players. Here is an example of a hockey psychology question I received from

Hockey Confidence: How to Take Control

How to Keep Self-Confidence High in Hockey Self-confidence in hockey is the number one asset when discussing your mental game. Self-confidence separates great athletes from the good athletes. Self-confidence is how much you believe in your ability. Many hockey players have fragile self-confidence, or lose confidence easily after mistakes. I recently received the following