"I Help Athletes Create Thriving Relationships For Every Season of Life"
Dr. Tartt trains player development representatives to improve clinical skills to help players to better deal with stress management, adjust to player resistance and provide techniques to get players to open up and talk.
Dr. Tartt consults with teams about specific athlete challenges like ascending in income class, becoming head of household as a youth, pressure to take care of friends and family before being fully developed, living up to celebrity status, etc.
Dr. Tartt shows team personnel how to employ motivational interviewing as a quick assessment of how a player is really feeling to avoid masked answers ("I'm good", "I'm ok", I'm fine") that hide stress, emotional issues to avoid future problems.
Dr. Tartt trains player development representatives to improve clinical skills to help players to better deal with stress management, adjust to player resistance and provide techniques to get players to open up and talk.
TRAININGS
How To Date An Athlete:
Relationship Management For Student Athletes (Interactive)
Let's face it: athletes face quite a challenge when it comes to maintaining healthy relationships. Research shows that 1) excessive travel 2) degree of available temptation and 3) obstacles to consistent quality time with your partner significantly taxes relationships. Thus, professional athletes are at highest risk of relationship dysfunction, break-up and divorce. This is not only true during a player's active sports career but after his/her sports career has concluded. Dr. Tartt provides workshops that specifically cater to the lifestyle of professional athletes to make relationships work. Dr. Tartt focuses on helping athletes choose the right mate, become conflict resolution masters, repair damaged relationships, and adjust to career transitions (rookie, trade, decreased time, cut, retirement, etc.).
How To Stay Married To An Athlete:
Relationship Management for Professional Athletes & Spouses
Sports Illustrated and The New York Times report that the divorce rate for professional athletes is 60-80%! Why is this so high? The truth is that celebrity status, travel, access, limited time, temptation, career transition, injury, stress level, etc. of the lifestyle present challenges to marriage that are above and beyond the average couple. Dr. Tartt works specifically with professional athletes (current and past) in resolving conflict, improving communication, infidelity prevention and recovery, and building trust and connection. This workshop can be presented to couples, the athlete and/or spouse of the athlete and is respective of all lifestyles. This workshop is interactive, fun and skill developing as participants learn and practice the skills within the workshop to make the skills stick!