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Stephen Walker Ph.D.
Stephen Walker Quick Facts
Main Areas: Stress Management, Cardiac Psychology, Health Psychology, Applied Sport Psychology, Performance enhancementBest Sellers: Sound files of techniques, concepts and homework assignments used in practice
Career Focus: Practitioner, Author, Speaker, Editor-in-Chief www.PodiumSportsJournal.com
Affiliation: Health & Sport Performance Associates - APA, AASP, SBM
Dr. Stephen Walker is a licensed healthcare professional who has served as a therapist coach and athletic & personal performance consultant for the past 33 years in the Rocky Mountain Region. His Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology was conferred in 1983 culminating in the publication of research that brought together the fields of psychology, exercise physiology, biofeedback and human performance in response to stress. Dr. Walker possesses an in-depth understanding of the developmental needs of kids adolescents and adults while being attentive to the mental skills required to excel in a wide variety of situations where optimum performance is desirable. He offers a unique combination of experience, skills assessment, and knowledge in the dynamics of team and work group chemistry in addition to coach/athlete relationships to be helpful in almost any competitive or performance driven situation.
As a consultant at the Human Performance Laboratory, and Sport Psychology instructor from the University of Colorado, Dr. Walker has interviewed world-record holders and consulted with All-American collegiate athletes, Olympians and performing artists in a variety of endeavors. In 1981, Dr. Walker founded the Rocky Mountain Institute for Health & Performance and for the better part of two decades specialized in the treatment of stress related disorders, injury rehabilitation & prevention and performance enhancement through skills acquisition, biofeedback and self-care training. He is co-author of “The Road to Recovery”, a monograph focusing on diagnosis and the development of specific treatment regimens for injury rehabilitation. Academically, Dr. Walker has published papers and presented research in both the professional literature and in symposiums presented to The Society for Behavioral Medicine, Association of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, and Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology in addition to others.
Dr. Walker is a catalyst in the development of respected sports and corporate health & performance programs. He is a passionate advocate for young people and draws upon his own personal zeal for life music & athletics that has spanned 40 years since he earned his first high school letter. He qualified All-American as a high school swimmer, is an expert skier, single digit handicap golfer, musician, and an enthusiast of martial arts and the performing arts. He is married to his beautiful wife Donna, has three children and two grandchildren.
Health & Sport Performance Associates, l.l.c. Phone: 303.530.4439
Dr. Stephen Walker Fax: 303.530.4643
5829 Niwot Road e-mail: walker544@comcast.net
Longmont, Colorado 80503 web site: www.drstephenwalker.com
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Stephen Walker
Top Quotes
1) "When plans are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them."
~ Sir William Osler (1849-1919, Physician)
2) Anything that we have to learn, we learn by the actually doing of it: we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones."
~Aristotle
3) ”It is your beliefs and perceptions that will drive your focus; it is what you focus on that you will experience”.
~ James Blanchard Cisneros
4) “Reality is always kinder than the stories we tell about it.”
~ Byron Katie
5) It is not the problem that causes our suffering; it is our thinking about the problem.”
~ Byron Katie
6) “All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them”.
~ William F. Halsey
(1882-1959, American admiral
7) “You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.”
~ Ruth E. Renkl
8) "You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you."
~ Barbara Sher
9) “Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?”
~ Leo Buscaglia
(American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author)
10) "Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."
~ Joseph Campbell
Getting Started With Stephen Walker
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Life Stress Interview – Dr. Walker can provide a brief consultation for individuals who would like to discuss how their experience of stress may increase their future risk of heart disease or interfere with their overall quality of life. Designed as a one time interview, this hour long session will focus on each patient’s experience of stress, assess their coping skills, their strengths and weaknesses, and educate them as to methods and techniques they might employ more effectively in responding to the stress experienced in their lives. By phone: $150.00
