HCPC-registered Sport Psychologist

louis@connectsportpsychology.co.uk

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Think clearly when it matters most.

Tailored one-to-one and team sport psychology support from an HCPC-registered practitioner. For athletes, performers and organisations who want to improve. Evidence-based, person-centred, and useful long before anything is going ‘wrong’.

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HCPC registered/ MSc Sport & Exercise Psychology, UWE Bristol/ Grassroots to international level

Trusted by

Individuals

Athletes, coaches, performers & parents

Confidence, competition nerves, recovering from a setback, selection pressure, or simply wanting a sharper mental approach. For athletes and for the coaches working alongside them. Sessions one-to-one, in Bristol or online.

Free 20-minute consultation first
Junior athletes welcome, parents included
Coaches and coaching staff, one-to-one
No referral or diagnosis needed

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Organisations

Clubs, schools & businesses

Workshops, embedded academy support, and performance psychology programmes, delivered inside your existing coaching structure, not bolted on beside it.

Squad and staff workshops
Season-long embedded support
Spotlight profiling for within sport and corporate spaces (18+)

Discuss a team enquiry →

Squad workshop with the Williams Sim Racing drivers and staff. Pressure response, mapped out by the athletes themselves.

Things don't have to be going wrong.

Most people arrive here because something feels harder than it should. Plenty arrive because they simply want to be better at the part of performance nobody trains. Both are the right reason.

Under pressure

Competition nerves, trials, big moments, the yips.

Losing the thread

A slump, lost confidence, or motivation that's gone quiet.

Coming back

Return from injury, deselection, or a season that hurt.

Getting sharper

Routines, focus, and decision-making under fatigue.

Services & investment

Package rates are lower than the single-session prices below, discussed on the consultation call.

One-to-one sessions

In Bristol or online, for athletes, coaches and performers. Cheaper as part of a package.

from £70

Team workshops

Sessions for squads or coaching staff, built around your season. Cheaper as part of a package.

from £185

Regular support

Regular presence across a season: training, matchdays, staff consultancy. Scoped around what you want.

Priced to your needs

Spotlight Profiling

Psychological profiling for sport and corporate settings, 18+. A cost per profile, then a session rate.

£79 / session + profile cost

What happens after you enquire

Step one

A free 20-minute call

No cost, no obligation. What's going on, what you want to change, and whether I'm the right person for it.

Step two

A plan that fits you

A clear, personalised approach with a realistic number of sessions, agreed together rather than prescribed.

Step three

Ongoing support

Work through it session by session, with practical tools you use in training and competition.

My approach

Humanistic, person-centred, and built on the relationship. The aim is to make myself redundant.

Connection first

I put real weight on the relationship between client and practitioner. With a solid understanding and foundation, people thrive rather than just survive.

Humanistic

Person-centred, and usually mindfulness and acceptance based. Many people arrive trying to get rid of uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. The change tends to come from being willing to open up to them instead.

Practical

Group or solo, you leave with something you can actually use. The technical, tactical and physical all get trained deliberately. Mental skills deserve the same treatment.

Committed and honest

You get someone who will challenge you as well as support you, when the time is right for each. I was once told a sport psychologist's job is to make themselves redundant, and I work that way.

Why it matters

Clients should feel safe and valued, think more flexibly, and finish a piece of work with a clear idea of how they cope on their own, closer to where they wanted to be.

Louis Ross

Practitioner Psychologist
HCPC registered · Bristol

Qualified, regulated, accountable

"Sport psychologist" is a protected title. It means statutory regulation, a code of practice, supervision, and insurance, not a weekend certification.

RegistrationHCPC Practitioner Psychologist

PractitionerLouis Ross

Background

2013

Pursued a football scholarship in the USA, studying alongside it

2017

Graduated BSc Psychology, from an American university

2019

Graduated MSc Sport & Exercise Psychology

2021

Applied training begins, working across 20+ sport and performance domains, from grassroots athletes to elite performers

2024

HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist

Now

Roles at the Bristol Bears and Somerset Cricket academies, plus independent school settings, academy football, golf and esports

Spotlight profiling

See how someone actually operates.

A psychological profile built for sport and corporate settings, followed by a session that turns the report into something usable. Useful for talent pathways, leadership groups and teams who keep hitting the same wall.

An 18+ service. A cost per profile, then £79 per Spotlight session.

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The profile

A written report on how the person responds to pressure, feedback, risk and recovery.

The session

A conversation that translates the report into decisions, language and next steps.

Where it fits

Academies and pathways, coaching staff, and corporate teams and leaders.

Case studies

Staff holding their Spotlight profiles at a Premiership rugby club session

Spotlight profiling with a Premiership rugby club

Profiling 50+ operations staff, and building the habits that keep the insight in daily use rather than collecting dust.

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Insights into work with UDA coaches: title slide with the UDA Glos and Connect Sport Psychology logos

Working with a university sports programme

Season-long support for UDA Glos coaches and student-athletes: resilience, relationships, and psychology-informed coaching.

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In their words

"He gave our academy players a language for pressure they didn't have before. Coaches use it now too."

Academy Lead
Bristol Bears

"My daughter went from dreading trials to looking forward to them. Louis was brilliant with her, and with us."

Parent of a junior athlete
Somerset

"Direct, practical, no jargon. It changed how I approached the back nine of a tournament."

Tour professional
Clutch Pro Tour

"The work Louis has carried out with our staff has been fundamental in bringing the group together. I've seen the results through their relationships with our student-athletes. It's more far-reaching than a 'psychology workshop', it explores the whole social landscape we're working in."

Steve Lilley
Programme Director, University Degrees Abroad

"Louis has demonstrated real expertise in Performance Support and Sport Psychology, and in contributing to wider team culture. He's a pleasure to work with, and we're all very impressed with the impact he's had, making strong connections with both drivers and staff."

Ben Hawkins
Former Director of Human Performance, Williams Sim Racing

"Louis has been a massive help this last season. This has been my hardest year off the course, and he's helped me find some clarity, my values, and some perspective. I felt lost with golf before working with him."

Professional Golfer