Patricia Donnelly, Ph.D.

      Dr. Patricia Donnelly works with elite and recreational athletes in her private practice in Weston, Connecticut.
 She is listed among Golf Digest’s prestigious compilation of mental experts.
  
       Dr. Donnelly has presented major papers at academic conferences on a variety of topics, including teaching
juniors golf skills according to their level of psychological development as described by Piaget (World Scientific
Congress of Golf, St. Andrews, Scotland, 1998); the phenomenon of the Korean female golfer on the LPGA Tour
(World Scientific Congress of Golf, Phoenix,2008); the power of visualization (Annual Conference of the American
College of Sports Medicine, Cincinnati); and the developmental teaching of sport to elementary school children
(Turns of the Century: Schools at the Millennium ERB Conference, New York, N.Y.).
    
      Dr. Donnelly has conducted seminal research on the transfer of achievement skills between sport and the
classroom. She has worked with and given seminars to such diverse organizations as the United States Tennis Association
and the PGA of America. She is a board member of and contributor to the Annual Review of Golf Coaching. She is also a
contributor to the Executive Women’s Golf Association and Golf Science International. She has developed the teaching staffs
of such resorts as Fiddler's Creek in Naples, Fla.
  
      Dr. Donnelly’s clients learn that athletics is a way to expand life-long habits of achievement that will help not
only on theplaying field, but in school, careers, and relationships. Dr. Donnelly believes that through the mastery of skills in
 sport and leisure, all people can enhance their life pursuits. One's basic needs of achievement, affiliation and power should
be balanced through sport and leisure to attain the most from one's life. Dr. Donnelly’s mental-training programs are customized
to achieve maximum results through such techniques as goal-setting, visualization, self-talk, thought stoppage, self-monitoring,
 coping and mastery skills, and achievement motivation. Athletes learn to master self-enhancing techniques to become
confident, focused and in control.