Christian Pszyk Email & Phone Number

First Team Performance Psychologist for The Blaze.• Plan and deliver a performance psychology strategy to drive key performance measures for players from a psychology perspective and support the overall performance plan of The Blaze.• Influence and contribute to the environment with psychological practice that promotes player performance.• Work 121 with players to support their individual development plans. • Contribute to the wider IDT to support player performance and associated development goals. • To work collaboratively with the Head of Sport Science & Medicine, CMO and Clinical Psychologist to ensure high levels of clinical care, wellbeing/mental health and women’s health support. • To guide and champion local and ECB led clinical/performance/research projects.• To work collaboratively with ECB staff to co-manage international pathway players.• To actively participate in the Women’s Sport Science and Medicine Review process.

My role focuses on work with the Board’s performance sub-committee to review and deliver all aspects of the Weightlifting and Para Powerlifting performance and development pathways, while also aiming to provide leadership at training and preparation camps and at international events, acting as head coach and/or team manager as required. Furthermore, we are also creating an athlete development pathway, where athletes and coaches thrive, as well as delivering an inter-disciplinary science and medicine support service.

We are a group of qualified and experienced practitioners, bringing together academic research, practical experience and a variety of applied skills and approaches. Our aim is to address all areas of performance, well-being and life, so that regardless of your level, sport or background, you can find and sustain the optimal version of yourself.

My role is focused around the creation of an online tool available to all professional footballacademies within the Premier League and EFL, as well as a bespoke coaching developmentprogramme focused on dissemination of psychological skills for applied coaching. I have also worked directly with a range of elite footballers, constructing bespoke interventions, from case formulation, to continuation and management, through success and setbacks.Furthermore, I work extensively within the Premier League physical benchmark testing, including leading sessions and data collection to inform best practice and support psychological and physical implementation. I have therefore been leading multidisciplinary teams throughout Category 1-3 academies, managing data recordings and uploads into PMA, and managing a team of 14 sport scientists, including Strength & Conditioning, Nutrition, Psychology and Physiology.

My main responsibilities are to support young scholarship athletes, who are U19’s from HuddersfieldGiants, England Netball, England Hockey and British Athletics, to become aware of, and hone, theirpsychological skills as part of their training with the Advanced Level Apprenticeship in SportingExcellence (AASE). Each athlete has one-to-one sessions with myself, who I support to complete apsychological skills workbook that sets short term and long term goals, while also usingself-evaluation to ensure they are able to identify the need for psychology in their sport, and how itcould benefit them. Throughout my time with these athletes it is essential that I build a closerelationship with them and that I can highlight the importance and positive impact of appliedpsychology, and how it is relevant and beneficial to them as an individual.

Working at Ingeus, my main task was to provide I was responsible for evaluating and enhancing theperformance of the organisation's workforce. I designed and executed assessments to adeptly matchcandidates with suitable positions, employing a range of psychological methods to ensure aharmonious alignment between the individual and the associated opportunity. Furthermore, I tookpride in formulating and implementing training initiatives that elevated job contentment, performancelevels, and the general mental health of employees. Collaborating closely with management, I alsotackled workplace challenges like conflicts and stress, working towards nurturing a constructive andthriving professional and high performing environment.

My role is focused around the support of scholarship athletes attending the university, providingbespoke one-to-one interventions based upon each individual student's portfolio, working closely inrelation with a multidisciplinary team to ensure that the right balance between high performance sportand a university degree can be achieved. Furthermore, I also provide psychological workshops tied inwith Performance Lifestyle, and interventions for the university’s myriad of sports teams, rangingfrom women’s rugby to squash to athletics. In addition, I was also tasked with creating team wideinterventions, looking at the culture and cohesion within the performance clubs.

British Judo Centre Of Excellence

My main task is to support Dr. Andrew Cruickshank in the delivery and dissemination ofpsychological knowledge throughout the Olympic and Junior Olympic programmes. This is centredaround the use of the Psychological Characteristics of Developing Excellence, while also working oneto one with individual athletes prior to and during a range of competitions. Furthermore, I have towork efficiently alongside a variety of other disciplines, including Strength & Conditioning, Nutrition,Welfare and a multitude of coaches while maintaining the necessary ethical and confidentialboundaries while working within the realms of UK Sport. I have thus gained experience of attendingevents such as the European Open with the Seniors, and am able to support players in training andcompetition environments.

Crewe, United Kingdom

The central focus of my work involved the hands-on preparation and development of individualplayers and their strengths and weaknesses, and how they can adapt their physical and mentalapproaches to gain the most benefit and perform to their maximal ability. As part of this role, I createdpsychological player profiles alongside the coaches, and utilised this information to create bespoketheory based interventions for individual players. In addition, I conducted group work with sets ofplayers to enhance resilience and wellbeing on and off the pitch, to support the players to perform atthe best of their ability week in, week out.

Collecting data for a research project on flow state in football.Statistical analysis on SPSS.

Postgraduate Diploma, Psychology, Awarded With Merit

Master Of Science (Msc), Exercise And Sport Psychology

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Sports Studies