Maryam Brown
MAEd, LHMC, NCC
I specialize in helping high-performing executives and athletes overcome mental barriers, break through performance blocks, and unlock their full potential. Whether you're navigating the pressures of the boardroom or the demands of elite competition, I’m dedicated to helping you build the mental resilience needed to thrive under pressure, maximize focus, and achieve lasting results. With a degree from Seattle University and over eight years of experience, I provide tailored strategies that empower my clients to transform stress into strength and perform at their best.
My approach blends evidence-based techniques with cutting-edge performance psychology, including Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), The Flash Technique, HeartMath, Brainspotting, and visualization strategies. These methods help clients overcome performance anxiety, self-doubt, and emotional blocks, enabling them to maintain clarity, confidence, and composure in high-stakes situations.
As both a therapist and sports enthusiast, I bring unique insight into the mental challenges faced by athletes, such as Repetitive Sports Performance Problems and Lost Move Syndrome (LMS). I work closely with my clients to address the psychological and somatic challenges caused by past experiences, injuries, and competitive stress. Whether you’re an athlete striving for peak performance or an executive pushing toward ambitious goals, I’m here to help you unlock your full potential.
Specialties:
Peak Performance Training
Executive Coaching
Brain Health Optimization
Performance Enhancement Coaching & Consultation
Self-esteem
Stress management
Resilience Training
Trauma and PTSD
Sports Traumatic Stress Disorder (STSD)
Depression
Anxiety (performance anxiety, phobias, social anxiety, generalized anxiety)
Psychological symptoms of brain injuries/concussions
Lost Move Syndrome (LMS)/ The Yips
HeartMath/ HRV Training
Mental Conditioning Techniques
Burnout
Secondary Trauma
Brain Health Optimization
Modalities
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is a neurobiological approach that facilitates the integration of traumatic experiences, including injuries and memories that no longer serve a purpose, and leads to symptom reduction (e.g., performance anxiety, self-doubt, burnout, etc.). EMDR is based on the Adaptive Information Processing model (AIP) that utilizes bilateral stimulation to create new neural pathways and access the information stuck in the brain’s neural networks, frozen in time and unable to integrate. Following EMDR treatment, you may notice an improvement in your mental flexibility and an increase in your ability to recover from setbacks.
Brainspotting
“Where you look affects how you feel”~ Dr. David Grand
Brainspotting is a technique that utilizes the visual field to locate the parts of the brain where the information is stored. Biolateral music facilitates the left-right brain activation and connection allowing the unintegrated experiences to get processed and stored adaptively.
The Flash Technique
The Flash Technique is a memory reconsolidation approach that reduces the disturbance of highly distressing memories. This method does not require patients to consciously engage with the disturbing memory; instead, they are guided by the therapist to focus on a calm place called “the container” that is developed prior to the processing. This is a relatively short method that takes up to 20 minutes and reduces the level of activation to a manageable level, at which point it will be determined if additional processing using EMDR and or Brainspotting will be necessary.
HeartMath is a research-based system of tools and techniques to enhance mental and emotional self-regulation and improve Heart Rate Variability. Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is a key indicator of health and fitness, influenced by emotions. HeartMath's emotional self-regulation techniques focus on increasing HRV coherence, which, when achieved, can reduce the adverse effects of stress, enhance self-regulation, cognitive function, and promote sustained physiological and behavioral change.
HeartMath has been tested in various settings worldwide, including healthcare, education, corporate, and sports.
HeartMath
If you are seeking to:
. Improve training efficiency
. Recover from the yips/ Lost Move Syndrome (LMS)
. Enhance endurance
. Accelerate recovery time
. Cultivate effective communication between the heart, brain, and nervous system
. Improve problem-solving skills, cognitive flexibility, and memory
. Improve hand-eye coordination
. Sharpen reaction time
. Minimize muscle tremors
.Improve HRV (Heart Rate Variability)
. Boost confidence
. Reduce performance anxiety
. Enhance cognitive speed
. Expedite recovery times
. Maximize oxygen uptake (VO2 max)
. Foster team coherence
. Convert stress into coherence
. Improve Heart-Brain interactions
. Increase your energy and sustain it
. Adapt to change quickly
With these modalities at our disposal, we will work together to unlock your inner resilience, foster personal growth, and overcome obstacles. Your journey towards a brighter future begins now. Reach out via the contact form or Email to set up a complimentary consultation appointment.
