Christopher Cannizzaro Email & Phone Number

Sayville, NY, US

Suffolk County, New York, United States

Long Island, New York

• Co-Founder of The Mental Barbell, a mental performance company.
• Publish blog posts highlighting mental skill concepts and proper applications of skills.
• Provide individual or team counseling for all levels of athletes, coaches, and athletic training staffs.
• Develop and implement specific and custom mental-skill programs for different individual athletes and athletic teams based on a need’s analysis completed by athlete or head coach of team.
• Designed video series that highlights mental skills being used in current events of athletes and breakdown the skill and how it is being used effectively.

Huntington, New York, United States

Springfield, Massachusetts

• Diagnosed and provided in-home therapy through the behavioral health network of Massachusetts
• Utilized a strengths-based model of therapy to treat youth patient’s social, emotional, and behavioral health needs.
• Improved the family dynamic and fostered a positive home family environment through family inclusive work.
• Created sustainable change for the adolescent and family to further reinforce the effectiveness of therapy.
• Assisted in creating and reinforcing positive behavioral pattern growth through techniques such as positive self-awareness, positive-behavior modeling, and cognitive restructuring.
• Determined what other BHN mental health resources were imperative for a patient to receive the most effective counseling experience.

• Lead Counselor for Springfield College’s football, woman’s gymnastics, men’s soccer and wrestling athletic programs for the second year of the athletic counseling master’s program.
• Supervised teams of 5-12 athletic counselors and helped direct team in workshop planning and facilitation, and assisted in individual counseling.
• Responsible for communication between coaching staff and the athletic counseling team members to co-ordinate the student-athlete schedule of time spent with the counseling team.
• Promoted both personal and athletic performance, allowed time for individual counseling, and academic growth through ex-alt sessions.
• Designed and lead experiential learning-based workshop programs for student-athletes ranging in groups from 5-40 athletes on topics such as time management, leadership, emotional regulation, communication, conflict.
• Designed team workshops based on a “needs assessment” completed by the head coach of the program.

• Worked alongside personal training staff and focused on incorporating mental skills training into physical training sessions.
• Utilized a psycho-educational approach to educate clients about mental warm-ups, attention tasks to increase cognitive challenges, and promoting a growth mindset for clients.
• Clients ranged from middle and high school athletes, professional athletes, and general population.
• Adapted to applying various skills quickly and efficiently based on the client’s needs.
• Designed goal-setting booklet’s for trainers to use with their clients to assist in tracking goals and goal development.

Port Jefferson, New York

• Worked alongside Dr. John Bowman as an intern and intern supervisor during the summer internship program.
• Facilitated a mental skills program with high school student-athletes that focused around 5 mental skills.
• Utilized various teaching methods such as traditional classroom lecture and integrated directly into sport practice for immediate application.
• Earned the role of intern supervisor which came with the responsibility to prepare the incoming interns on how to properly execute educating the high school athletes on the information in the mental skills program.
• Assisted Dr. Bowman in running the mind plus muscle online website and social media platforms

Sayville, New York

Sayville, New York

- Worked along high school cheerleading teams to implement mental skills that promoted skills such as group cohesion, communication, and leadership. Worked with teams both individually and in groups. - Developed mental warm-up routines to assist in mental preparation for performance.

Master'S Degree, Clinical Mental Health

Master'S Degree, Clinical Psychology With A Concentration In Athletic Counseling

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology

Liberal Arts And Sciences, General Studies And Humanities

Admitted into the Honors program after my first semester