Head Games | Mental Performance

The overarching goal of Head Games coaching is to help drivers reach and consistently deploy their performance potential! Frequent examples of skills and areas of focus that drivers benefits from include:

  • Achievement of goals through optimal goal setting & prioritization
  • Regulation of arousal, stress, and/or emotion
  • Improved confidence, motivation, and concentration
  • Improved communication skills, necessary for any optimally performing team
  • Learning specific performance enhancement techniques (e.g. imagery, goal-setting)
  • Debriefing and evaluating performance or programs
  • Improved strategic decision-making; over a whole event and within on-track sessions

Initial Intake

Let’s get started! In this initial meeting, we explore your short- and long-term goals, racing experiences and habits. From there, we individualize specific techniques and strategies, based on your identified needs and goals, to ensure you are ready to compete at your best.

Individual Sessions

Let’s get after it! Individual sessions allow drivers to practice skills and continue to modify and refine mental performance habits. Many drivers find individual sessions extremely helpful outside of the pressure and intensity of a race weekend. These sessions are seamless, consistent and complement Event Support.

Event Support

Bring Head Games coaching to the track! Joel can help support your performance in multiple ways at track events:

  • Event and session goal setting and focus identification
  • Attendance at team meetings and debriefs, including during data analysis
  • Integration with team members including engineers, team managers, strategists and other pertinent team members to optimize performance coaching
  • Live coaching during on-track sessions (pit to driver communication to assist with strategy, racecraft, etc.)
  • Assistance with spotting during on-track activities

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Individual Sessions

CA$700.00
CA$700.00
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Event Support Sessions

CA$1,000.00
CA$1,000.00
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About Dr. Joel Watts

A mental performance coach with years of experience as a driver/racer, triathlete and psychiatrist (a doctor specializing in mental health), and of course a passion for motorsport!

After coaching drivers at HPDE events for several years, he began to incorporate his clinical skills by providing mental performance coaching to racers at club, regional and national levels. He has provided individual and event coaching to drivers racing at Pro-Am levels, including in the FEL, IMSA and SRO series. His drivers have gone on to improve their confidence, consistency and performance, in keeping with their individual goals. Some of Joel’s drivers have achieved their goals of winning major races and series Championships after working together. His personable interactions make sessions fun and rewarding!