Tracey Veivers

BA DipPsych MPsych MAPS

 

Tracey Veivers

Tracey Veivers has worked in the sport and performance psychology profession since 1991. Within her private practice, Performance Perspectives, she works with individuals and teams from a large variety of sports from the junior development level through to the professional level. This performance enhancement and wellbeing work has now extended to the corporate environment. Tracey is a consultant to a major health organisation and also consults to a leading Brisbane Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Centre assisting with lifestyle, health and weight management and also injury management. She has presented at international conferences and has publications in the SportsMed News, The Modern Athlete and Coach and the Triathlon and Multi-Sport magazine, having conducted research into topics such as performing under extreme conditions, attentional and interpersonal style, and team cohesion. She has also regularly been quoted on television and in national newspapers on topical editorials. Furthermore, Tracey has been a regular guest lecturer in sport and exercise psychology and team/group processes at Queensland University of Technology since 2002 and also James Cook University more recently.

Tracey has worked with the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra across all elite sports and in Brisbane with squash, diving, rugby union and canoeing. Tracey has also travelled domestically and internationally as a sport psychologist with Australian representatives to sporting events such as National Championships and World Championships and also the Olympics. She is currently a service provider as a Sport Psychologist with the Queensland Academy of Sport.

 

The Role of a Sport Psychologist
The role of a qualified and registered sport psychologist can vary widely and include: 

Personality profiling, assessing strengths and weaknesses in current mental approaches of individuals in the goal of refinement for optimal performance, helping key stakeholders such as managers and coaches promote an optimal environment for maximum team enjoyment, stress management, weight and health management, assisting with life management strategies, teaching mental skills such as imagery and competition planning, offering individual consultations, as well as facilitating interactive workshops, and general counselling.

 

Specialties
Tracey continues to enjoy working with athletes from mainstream sports including swimming, water polo, cycling, golf, tennis, track and field, triathlon / ironman, cricket and rowing. She specialises in team sports at the elite level including AFL, basketball, softball, soccer, netball and rugby union. She also specialises in non-mainstream sports such as figure skating, gliding, equestrian and motor racing. She also has an interest in assisting performing artists and corporate executives in achieving continued performance excellence.
 

 

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