Traci Statler, PhD, CMPC

Do they not know? Have they not heard?

Hi all-Shifting my social media over to Bluesky. You can find me here: bsky.app/profile/tracis…

Not a bad way to spend Cyber Monday!

So proud of him (and the shout out was nice too!) mlb.com/news/phillies-…

New #RedOctober pump up video. 🔥 (via @Damyers98)

Protect the Phillie pups at all costs (tt/macduffsgoldenpups)

@sirleemd Congrats! They are getting one of the very best!!!

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THE FLIPS TOOK ME OUT 😭

@ktnago13 You go girl! Chike and Toradol! Breakfast of champions!!! ❤️❤️❤️

This is what I mean when I say I’m not a morning person. This was my schedule for the prelim. 5:30 am wake up call was rough 😅

Tyler Phillips grew up a @Phillies fan in South Jersey. He tossed a shutout for his hometown team tonight. 🥹

I SO need a selfie with the Aaron Barrett bobblehead! Roadtrip, anyone?

Me and the GOAT of mental performance...talking (not surprisingly) baseball. Miss you. Every. Single. Day.

@AlexAuerbachPhD Can't answer this unless you operationally define "better"... Better for what? Better for whom? You are prescribing valence within the question without context for its foundation.

I’m interested in settling a long-standing sports debate. Provide your answer and reasoning: Is it better to love to win, or hate to lose?

Didn't realize 5 years ago how relevant this keyone would be for me! ⚾️

@Empower2Perform Are you going to be connected to USC?

@Empower2Perform Ooohhh...where in SC?

@Justinsua ...sometimes, it rains!

Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. You learn from both.

@ThrowSumthin Right? Me too!

@TraciStatler Traci, why is this tweet yelling at me so loudly? 🤦🏽‍♀️🙄

This one has me thinking a lot today...

@AlexAuerbachPhD Part of the challenge is that what you describe with the umbrella term "sport psychology" is more likely a blend of elements from the job descriptions of sport psych (MH focus), mental performance coaching (MP focus), lifeskills, and even some professional agent/rep professions!

Sport psychology isn’t just therapy for athletes. But that’s what it’s been reduced to. A great performance psychologist will help everyone in the organization appreciate the influence and impact of human behavior on performance - and help everyone perform better. They’ll also help you identify better talent and develop that talent more effectively. They’ll help you manage change, transition, turnover, and teamwork. They’ll help bolster your confidence in decision-making. They’ll provide a psychological lens through which everyone can view the game. They’ll influence things like travel, rest and recovery. A great sport psychologist will help you in the draft (recruiting), trade deadline (transfer portal), and with the players on your roster. Above all, they’ll quickly help everyone develop confidence in them - because they help the other performers (read: everyone) in the organization build competence (and confidence of their own along the way). If you’re only using sport psychology for therapy, you’re missing the point. You’re missing the benefits. You’re missing the opportunity to help everyone think, feel, and perform better. And if you aren’t of conviction that your current sport psych can do that… we need to talk about that, too. This isn’t to say therapy and mental health treatment aren’t important. Of course they are. But reducing the role to therapy is like reducing a strength coach’s role to just strengthening after an injury. Or reducing a coach’s role to just X’s & O’s with no mentorship. All of sport is behavior. An organization is just a collection of people behaving. Make the most of the experts in human behavior.