"Beyond the Finish Line: Psychological First Aid in High-Pressure Sport and Medical Settings."

Bio: Sarah Greene-Falk, LCPC, LPC, is the founder of PsychEdge, a licensed counselor and Sport and Performance Psychology Coach with nearly 20 years of experience helping people increase confidence, build resilience, navigate pressure, self-regulate emotions, and perform at their best. For the past seven years, she has served as Director of the Psychological Medical Team for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, supporting athletes, medical professionals, volunteers, and others through the unique psychological challenges that can arise on race day.

Through PsychEdge, Sarah works 1:1 remotely with clients and teams nationwide, including Olympians and elite competitors, recreational athletes and performers, and high-performing professionals such as physicians, attorneys, executives, and CEOs.

She is also the creator of P3 – The Performance Potential Program, a science-based, plug-and-play mental performance curriculum with pre and post assessment tracking. P3 is designed to fit easily into team practices in approximately 15 minutes per week.

A lifelong competitive athlete, Sarah is a Masters swimmer and former sprint triathlete who grew up in the Chicago suburbs participating in swimming, softball, cross country, track & field, and basketball and has also assistant coached swimming. Outside of work, she is a wife, a mom of a teenage athlete, enjoys lifting weights, playing billiards, watching sports - especially the Chicago Cubs, enjoying the outdoors, and can often be found walking her fur babies, Honey and Clemson.

 
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