For Parents and Coaches of Competitive Athletes
The game starts with mental health.
A sports psychiatrist’s guide to anxiety, mood, ADHD, sleep, and peak performance in your athlete.
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Is this burnout? Overtraining? Depression?
Lately, something has shifted. Your athlete heads straight to their room after practice, snaps at you over nothing, and insists they’re “fine” when they’re not.
Every conversation goes sideways, and you lie awake wondering if this is just typical pressure, or something else you’re missing.
Learn what’s normal, what’s not, how to respond at home, and when to get professional help, across anxiety, depression, ADHD, and REDs.
Plus explore the mental performance tools that help athletes compete with confidence.
Master the mental side of the game, from the sidelines.
WELCOME, FRIEND!
I'm Dr. Linda Kim.
I'm a Harvard-trained, certified sports psychiatrist — and a mother of three elite athletes, including a Harvard D1 athlete, another D1 Ivy recruit, and a younger athlete following the same path.
I didn't just study this professionally. I lived it — the 6 a.m. training sessions, the recruiting calls, the quiet dinner-table moments where I wasn't sure if what I was seeing in my own kids was normal stress or something more.
This site is everything I learned, professionally and personally, distilled into a system so you don't have to figure it out alone, in real time, under pressure.
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Online courses for parents who want to get the mental side right
Simple, step-by-step video lessons from a sports psychiatrist and sports mom. Learn the signs, the right words, when to get help, and enjoy the season again.
Protect their health.
See how anxiety, depression, ADHD, and REDs really show up in competitive athletes. These aren’t textbook definitions but the everyday patterns you’ll recognize at home, along with what’s normal, what’s not, and exactly when to call for help.
Help them perform.
Understand the psychology behind confidence, focus, and resilience, so you can help your athlete compete at their best without adding the pressure that holds them back.
The Home Court Method
Every course follows the same proven path.
Built on mental health literacy research and adapted for athletes and sports families by a board-certified psychiatrist (and sports mom), every course walks you through the same steps:
Recognize: Know the difference between a hard season and something more.
Understand: Learn signs and symptoms. What does depression or anxiety look like on the court? Or at home?
Know the risks: Spot the moments that raise the stakes: injury, recruiting, transitions.
Support at home: What can help at home? Uncover tools you can use today.
Get the right help: Know exactly when to call for more help.
Built for athletes or parents of athletes 12 to 18.
learn more →It's time to support your whole athlete, and I want to show you the way.
HERE'S HOW I CAN HELP:
The Whole Athlete Series
We cover all things mental health in your athlete, including depression, anxiety, ADHD, sleep, peak performance, Relative Energy Deficit in Sports, and more.
Is it burnout or is it depression? Let's talk about it!
Workshops and Speaking
Dr. Kim loves to share her learnings at campuses, clubs, and corporate events!
Whether at tournaments or executive meetings, maximizing the mental game is always essential for peak performance.
Unlock Real Performance
Learn the mental game — sleep, confidence, visualization, and how to help your athlete handle pressure without letting it define them.
The same psychological foundation that helps an athlete perform under pressure — confidence, focus, discipline, the ability to recover from failure — doesn't stay on the field. It shows up in how they handle a hard exam, whether they follow through on commitments without being told, and the kind of work ethic they carry long after their playing days end.
You're not just learning how to support an athlete through a season. You're learning how to help build a young person equipped to excel wherever they turn their attention next — a challenging class, a demanding recruiting process, or the years of life that come after both.
Become Your Athlete's Biggest Advocate
Is it a bad season, or something more? Learn how depression, anxiety, and ADHD show up in athletes, and when to get help.
Athletes are trained to push through. Depression can look like lack of motivation, anxiety like a bad attitude, ADHD like not caring. Parents and coaches are often the first to notice that something has shifted and the first to need to know what it means.
This course isn't about becoming a therapist. It's about becoming the steady, informed presence your athlete needs most, at exactly the moments that matter most.
Knowledge is power, so learn how to become your athlete's biggest supporter.
GRAB OUR FREEBIE
Conquer Performance Anxiety
Nerves before the big game? Help your athlete turn nerves into fuel, for maximum performance. Inside:
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The science of why nerves can help performance, in plain language
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Word-for-word scripts for the night before, the car ride, between games, and after a loss
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The phrases to stop saying (most of us say them), and what to say instead
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A 3-step tool your athlete can use on their own
