#39 - Sport Psychologist Dom Vettise "Finding the Athletes Edge”

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Intro:

This week we welcome the next instalment of our special guests, HPSNZ Sport Psychologist, Dom Vettise.

For the past 8 years, Dom has worked with some of NZ best athlete’s and teams on the world stage, such as NZ Rugby’s Black Ferns, the NZ All Whites and NZ canoe team at the Paris Olympics.

With a background in clinical psychology, Dom has taken his passion for sports and turned his attention to both pre-performance athletes as well as season professionals, to develop individual coping strategies, mental skills and performance behaviours that are essential in the quest for achieving success.

In this episode we explore the world of sport psychology and leave the listeners with some tools to implement and information to explore further, which will help you on your own journey towards mastery.

Ok, let’s go

Dom Vettise Bio

Sport

• Football to National league level
• Age group Central Districts cricket 

Business

• Vettise Psychology (2015 – present)
  • Registered Clinical and Performance Psychologist
  • Mental Health
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
  • Mindfulness based therapies
  • Acceptance & Commitment therapies
• High Performance Sport NZ (2017 – present)
  • Sport and Clinical Psychologist
• NZOC Psychology Lead (2023 – present)
  • Lead Psychologist for NZOC at Paris Olympics 2024
  • NZ Canoe Sprint team and a few individual Olympic athletes. 
• Oceania Football Confederation (2021 – 2023)
  • Psychology Consultant
  • Online learning modules
• New Zealand Rugby (2021 – present)
  • Lead Psychologist
  • Black Ferns 7s
    • 4 x World Series Championships, Comm & Olympic games gold medallists
• New Zealand Football (2020 – present)
  • Lead Clinical and Sport Psychologist
  • All Whites
• Auckland Cricket (2018 – 2021)
  • Clinical Psychologist
• Toyota Verblitz (2024)
  • Professional rugby club in Japan, Psychologist consultant

Family

• Husband and fa

Chapters

• 0:20 Gareth & Dom’s origin story
• 3:00 Mental Health & Wellbeing
• 10:45 Therapies
• 15:00 Psychology in sport
• 22:00 Practical tools athletes (and parents) can start to implement to find their edge
• 35:35 Identity – Helpful or Harmful?
• 46:30 Reflection and Journalling
• 50:00 Breathe Work
• 56:00 How coach can maximise the half time window
• 1:08:30 Final advice to athletes and the support network
• 1:12:15 Quick Fire Questions