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Dr. Lauren S. Tashman, CMPC

My Background

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I started riding horses competitively when I was 8 years old. I was fortunate to get coached by a Grand Prix level rider right from the start immediately setting me on a path towards becoming a professional rider with the ultimate goal of eventually competing in the Olympics. For 13 years, I traveled all over the country competing in elite national competitions. It was both a great and challenging way to grow up! The summer before my freshman year of college, I had been doing well and was starting to compete at a higher level on a horse that would go through the jump if he couldn't go over it. My coach at that time said it was time to get a horse I could "win on". For the next few months, on that new horse, I didn't make it around a single course of jumps. My confidence and motivation deteriorated each time I landed on the ground. Finally, at the last horse show of the summer, I was thrown face first into a jump. After that, I took a break from riding to recover and figure out if I wanted to continue pursuing my life's dream.  At this point, my family had our own farm and we had several horses, so it was a big decision to consider. I decided to keep riding, got a new horse and a new coach, and rode for 3 more years. But I was never the same fearless rider I had always been so I decided to finally leave that life and identity behind. During college I became fascinated by human psychology and behavior. When I heard about the field of sport psychology, it felt like everything clicked into place and a new dream was born. 

What Do I Bring To The Table?

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I have spent years studying human performance, mindset, leadership, and team culture from multiple angles and fields as well as working with many diverse clients and contexts. I have been working with individuals and teams/organizations in sport, exercise, and other performance domains and settings for over 15 years. And I have been extremely fortunate throughout my career to have a multi-faceted background and understanding of the psychology of performance that I combine with my experiences working in high performance sport for six years to help clients more consistently align performance with goals, values, and potential.

​Credentials:
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Certified Mental Performance Consultant© (CMPC) administered by the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP)
2010 PhD in Educational Psychology, Major Sport Psychology, Florida State University (FSU)
2006 Certificate in Program Evaluation, FSU
​2006 Certificate in Measurement & Statistics, FSU
2005 MS in Educational Psychology, Major Sport Psychology,  FSU
2002 BA Psychology, The College of New Jersey
Thesis: The effects of perfectionism and perceived stress on burnout in coaches
Dissertation: Be a performance enhancement consultant: Enhancing the training of student sport psychology consultants using expert models

Graduate Research Assistant: Researched expert performance in SWAT police officers and critical care nurses under the direction of K. Anders Ericsson, Paul Ward, and David Eccles
Mental Performance Coaching and Related Experience:
♦ Master Coach Valor Performance (2019-present)
♦ Mental Performance Coach Golf & Body NYC (2018-2020)

♦Director of Mental Performance G2 Academy  (2019-2020)
♦ Mental Performance Coach Softball Canada Senior Women's National Team (2014 - 2020)
♦ Coordinator of Sport Psychology Services - Barry University (2013 - 2017) 
Other Experience:
♦ Adjunct Professor, Applied Sport and Performance Psychology -  Holy Names University (2020-present)
♦ Adjunct Professor and Internship Supervisor, Sport Psychology - John F. Kennedy University (2018-present)

♦ Associate Professor in MS Sport, Exercise, & Performance Psychology (MS SEPP) and BS Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology (BS SEPP) - Barry University (2011-2017)
♦ Coordinator of the MS in Sport, Exercise, & Performance Psychology (2016-2017)
Peer-Reviewed Publications:
Wakefield, J., & Tashman, L. S. (2020). Creating powerful classroom experiences on a low budget. In A. Shipherd & J. E. Coumbe-Lilley (Eds.), High impact teaching for sport and exercise psychology educators. NY: Routledge.
Tashman, L. S. (2020). Culture eats teambuilding for breakfast. In M. L. Sachs, L. S. Tashman, & S. Razon (Eds.), Performance excellence: Stories of success from the real world of sport and and exercise psychology (pp. 17-21). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Tashman, L. S. (2020).  Teeing up for success by exploring  and shifting mindset. In M. L. Sachs, L. S. Tashman, & S. Razon (Eds.), Performance excellence: Stories of success from the real world of sport and and exercise psychology (pp. 177-180). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Foster, J., & Tashman, L. S. (2019). Team culture. In J. Taylor (Ed.), Comprehensive applied sport psychology (pp. 317-326). New York: Routledge.

Tashman, L. S. (2019). The evolution of a career: navigating through and adapting to transitions in sport, exercise, and performance. In A. Mugford &  J. G. Cremades (Eds.), Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology: Theories and Applications (pp. 175-203). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis. 
Tashman, L. S., Simpson, D., & Cremades, J. G. (2017). Psychological skills training for adopting and adhering to exercise. In S. Razon & M. Sachs (Eds.), Applied Exercise Psychology: The Challenging Journey from Motivation to Adherence (pp. 82-98). New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Cremades, J.G., & Tashman, L.S. (2016). Incorporating case analysis into practice and training in sport, exercise, and performance psychology. In J.G. Cremades & L. Tashman (Eds.). Global practices and training in applied sport, exercise, and performance psychology: A case study approach (pp. 363-369). New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Tashman, L.S., & Cremades, J.G. (2016). Incorporating technology in supervision: Using interpersonal process recall to enhance reflective practice. In J.G. Cremades & L. Tashman (Eds.). Global practices and training in applied sport, exercise, and performance psychology: A case study approach (pp. 343-351). New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Tashman, L.S., & Cremades, J.G. (2016). The need for case analysis and reflection in sport, exercise, and performance psychology. In J.G. Cremades & L. Tashman (Eds.). Global practices and training in applied sport, exercise, and performance psychology: A case study approach (pp. 3-10). New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Simpson, D., Post, P. G., & Tashman, L. S. (2014). Adventure racing: the experience of participants in the Everglades Challenge. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 54(1), 113-128.
Cremades, J. G., Tashman, L. S., & Quartiroli, A. (2014). Initial considerations: developing the pathway to become a sport, exercise, and performance psychology professional. In J. G. Cremades & L. S. Tashman (Eds.), Becoming a sport, exercise, and performance psychology professional: A global perspective (pp. 3-11). New York, NY: Routledge.
Tashman, L. S., & Cremades, J. G. (2014). The wave of the future: integrating technology into service delivery training. In J. G. Cremades & L. S. Tashman (Eds.), Becoming a sport, exercise, and performance psychology professional: A global perspective (pp. 347-353). New York, NY: Routledge.
Quartiroli, A., Cremades, J. G., & Tashman, L. S. (2014). Where do we go from here.  In J. G. Cremades & L. S. Tashman (Eds.), Becoming a sport, exercise, and performance psychology professional: A global perspective (pp. 357-365). New York, NY: Routledge.
Tashman, L. S. (2013). The development of expertise in performance: the role of memory, knowledge, learning, and practice. Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 5(3), 33-48.
Tashman, L. S., & Tenenbaum, G. (2013). Sport psychology service delivery training: the value of an interactive, case-based approach to practitioner development. Journal of Sport Psychology in Action, 4(2), 71-85.
Tashman, L. S., Tenenbaum, G., & Eklund, R. (2010). The effect of perceived stress on the relationship between perfectionism and burnout in coaches. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 23(2), 195-212
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Ward, P., Harris, K. R., Ericsson, K. A., Eccles, D. W., Tashman, L., & Lang, L. (2007). Cognitive basis for expert and superior performance in law enforcement [Abstract]. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1884). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Harris, K. R., Tashman, L., Ward, P., Ericsson, K. A., Eccles, D. W., Williams, A. M., Ramrattan, J., & Lang, L. H. (2006). Planning, evaluation, and cognition: Exploring the structure and mechanisms of expert performance in a representative dynamic task. Proceedings from the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 328-332). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Tashman, L. S., Harris, K. R., Ramrattan, J., Ward, P., Eccles, D. W., Ericsson, K. A., Williams, A. M., Rodrick, D., & Lang, L. H. (2006). Expert performance in law enforcement: Are skilled performers more effectively constraining the situation to resolve representative dynamic tasks than novices?. Proceedings from the 50th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (pp. 1213-1217). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. 


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