Our staff-only sport and exercise psychology services are delivered by Dr Trish Jackman.
1-to-1 sport psychology support helps athletes, coaches, and parents with areas of performance, lifestyle, wellbeing, and/or personal development. Trish also works with coaches and parents to help them to better support their athletes and children, respectively. Trish works with people of all ages and all standards, including from grassroots to elite levels in sport.
1-to-1 exercise psychology support can help people with the mental aspects of exercise (e.g., motivation, commitment, anxiety), injury rehabilitation (e.g., adherence to rehabilitation programme), being active while recovering from illness, and related health behaviours (e.g., diet, sleep). Trish supports people to develop and maintain a healthy mind, so they can achieve their goals and find a way of being active that they enjoy, can keep up, and provides them with a rich and meaningful life. Trish works with people of all ages and exercise levels.
Please see below for more information about the service and Trish’s approach. To book or to contact about a specific query, please use the links below or email directly on pjackman@lincoln.ac.uk.
Dr Patricia Jackman
Trish is accredited with the European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC) as a Specialist in Applied Sport Psychology (SASP-FEPSAC). She is a Sport and Exercise Psychologist in Training (SEPiT) on the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science’s Accreditation Route.
Trish is open to working in different sport and exercise contexts. Previous clients in sport include performers from athletics, boccia, basketball, cycling, mountain biking, duathlon, football, Gaelic games, hockey, ice-skating, powerlifting, trampolining, squash, swimming, triathlon, and water skiing. She has worked with athletes, coaches, and parents in these contexts. She has also provided support in dance and to people seeking to start or maintain physical activity.
What happens when you work with Trish?
Trish offers everyone who expresses an interest in her support a no-obligation initial consultation session lasting 20-30 minutes. This gives you a chance to meet Trish, discuss your main concerns, and establish if she is the right person to support you. This meeting will also allow you to decide whether or not you’d like us to continue working together.
If you and Trish decide to work together, she will ask you to read an information sheet and sign a consent form. In the first formal session, you will spend time getting to know each other. Successful psychology work necessitates a strong and trusting bond between the psychologist and person they’re working with. Building this relationship is just as – if not more – important than the actual approach used. This relationship is like the soil that allows the psychological work to take root. Without a good relationship between us, the work won’t be as effective. This first session gives us both a chance to see if we can work together. You will discuss your history in sport/exercise, what you like doing outside sport/exercise, your support systems, your goals, strengths, areas for development, barriers to success, preferences, priorities, and beliefs.
In the first session, we will also discuss what you hope to get from our work together. It may take another couple of sessions to understand this in more detail, but by building up this picture, this can allow Trish to support you in the best way possible – using an approach that addresses your needs, is tailored to you, and is evidence-based. As you work together, you also might need to make modifications, for example, to the strategies you are using. This will be a collaborative process and one that ultimately seeks to empower you to flourish in the way that you would like. Trish will commit to supporting you and it is also your responsibility to commit to achieving the desired outcomes of the service.
Sessions usually take 50 minutes and will take place in person (Brayford Campus, Lawress Hall), online, or as a walk and talk. We cannot predict the number of sessions that this work will involve and there is no guarantee that it will help you. You may feel there comes a point where you’ve benefited from the sessions, and we will stop our work there. Equally, you may wish to continue 1-2-1 sessions.
What’s Trish’s approach?
Trish’s approach focuses on helping you to gain insight, draw on and nurture what you are already good at, and will support you to take ownership over the changes you wish to make. Trish will do this through listening, guiding, and supporting you to find a way forward that works for you. If your concerns aren’t something Trish can help with, she may signpost you to other individuals or services who are better placed to help.
How much does it cost?
As the service is currently being delivered on a trial basis, there will be no charge until May 1 2024.