As the Director of Counseling Services at University of Nevada, Reno at University of Nevada, Reno and in my private practice, I help individuals, groups, and organizations:
- identify and obtain meaningful personal goals
- better understand personal barriers to change
- increase motivation for personal change
- better understand and accept themselves
- apply a solid foundation of effective mental skills
- improve and maintain peak personal performance
Background
I am a Nevada licensed psychologist with sport psychology consultant certification from the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP). I received my Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) APA-accredited clinical psychology doctoral program in 2007 after completing my dissertation, a sport psychology study on golf performance. I completed my doctoral internship at the Utah State University Student Counseling Center’s American Psychological Association (APA)-accredited psychology internship program, providing counseling and sport psychology consulting services to university students. I received my executive master of business administration (EMBA) at the University of Nevada, Reno in 2018.
I currently work in private practice and as the director of the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) Counseling Services. I provide UNR students and student athletes with counseling and sport psychology consulting services as adjunct clinical faculty member with the University of Nevada School of Medicine. I work with a variety of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, and eating disorders. I am also the co-chair of the Nevada System of Higher Education mental health tasks force and a mental healthcare advocate. In private practice, I provide sport psychology consultations. I also enjoy teaching and doing research, with several publications in sport psychology including an article in The Sport Psychologist and a co-authored book Principles of Self-Talk in Sport Settings.
Yani Dickens, Sports Psychologist Reno Las Vegas NV Nevada
