Dr. Julie Emmerman

Sports Performance Therapist
Dr. Julie Emmerman is a Clinical Sports Performance Therapist.
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Dr. Julie Emmerman has an expansive background in clinical sport performance therapy. She has helped many different types of athletes and coaches, from the professional, to the Olympic level.

Dr. Emmerman has been working with athletes since her graduate internship at the University of Colorado-Boulder and in private practice since the year 2000. She also works with USA Cycling’s High-Performance Division and gives leadership consultations to team Directors at the highest level of professional cycling. Julie has a background in working with athletes and coaches in the: NHL, triathlon, MMA, track and field, ultra-running, equestrian events, and tennis industries.

Uniquely, Julie has an approach that concentrates on making a non-judgmental, inclusive, confidential space that encourages her clients to feel secure so that she can focus on their concerns and they can work together. Depending on her athlete or coaches’ learning style, she will use a blend of psychodynamic theory, interpersonal theory, cognitive behavior theory, and mindfulness psychotherapy techniques to teach her clients. She understands the stressors and pressures of being a high performing athlete, as Julie has also raced bikes on and off in the past 20 years.

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Sports Psychology for Cyclists Pathway from Fast Talk Laboratories

Sport Psychology Pathway

Committed athletes reach a point where performance gains depends more on the skills they build between their ears than on the strength of their legs or their heart. The very best athletes are as strong mentally as they are physically. In the Sport Psychology Pathway from Fast Talk Labs, we explore how to build mental skills with experts like Dr. Simon Marshall, Julie Emmerman, Grant Holicky, Lesley Paterson, and Julie Young.

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