Prerequisite undergraduate training is typically in physical education or psychology. Pragmatically speaking, like a personal trainer , regardless of educational training and experience, anyone can offer services as a sport psychology consultant . If the athletic or golf community consider your psychological services of value, you can offer them under the umbrella of a sport psychology consultant. You can legally call yourself and advertise as sport psychology consultant , psychological consultant , performance enhancement specialist , etc. I teach and supervise master s level, applied counseling psychology, students at Villanova University.
Students exit our program with excellent counseling and consulting skills.
The have earned a master s degree in counseling and human relations and are eligible to be licensed as counselors. Some of our students have done their internships in athletic venues and have gone on to function successfully as sport psychology consultants. I consider these students to be exceptionally well equipped by way of training and experience to ethically hold themselves out to be qualified sport psychology consultants. I m a sport psychology consultant not a sport psychologist. Briefly, my background is a B.A. in psychology, an M.A. in school psychology and a Ph.D. in Psychological Services.