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Johnston Psychology Associates
Peak Performance Training
As a founding member of the Division of Sports Psychology of the American Psychological Association, I am well-trained and versed in helping individual achieve their optimal performance or Flow.
I use techniques from multiple evidence based sources to quiet your mind: recognizing the impediments to Flow, self-talk, patterns of thinking, visualization, cognitive cues, and relax your body: relaxation training, Yoga & body-based meditation training. We can work out a program to help you practice at home and enhance your peak performance skills.
Optimal Productivity Services
At Optimal Productivity, I provide training, workshops and career development in optimizing the human element of Lean Six Sigma.
Psychological Testing
I use psychological tests not only for executive evaluations, but also to help foster an individual's ability to get feedback and explore themselves, their values and their interests. I am especially fond of John Holland's Self-Directed Search which is a career test geared towards adults. For learning about personality, I like the California Personality Inventory, the 16 PF and the Myers Briggs. For leadership, I use the Management Style Questionnaire, VIA Survey of Character Strengths, and Meaning in Life Questionnaire. For values, values clarification exercises may be utilized.
Career Counseling
I see career counseling as a process to help an individual clarify their goals, address their feelings about their career and work environment, look at their motivations for their job and make conscious choices about the desired inherent meaning and value in their work. Issues such as conflicts with one's boss, feeling undervalued by one's employer, making a career change or coping with job dispacement can be addressed. I understand the dramatic changes in today's economy and the high level of chronic stress inherent in it. Particular attention is paid to find "flow" at work, merging together one's talents and skills with appropriate work challenges to create value and meaning. I employ a Positive Psychology Strength based approach.
"Finding Flow at Work: The Wheel of Optimal Productivity"
