Dr. Chrissy Holm Haider - Mental Health and Performance - Staff Directory

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Dr. Chrissy Holm Haider

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Mental Health and Performance
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Chrissy Holm comes by her expertise in Leadership and Mental Performance honestly. A five-sport letter-winner in high school, Chrissy began a career in rowing while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, where she won national and world titles on her way to Big-10 Athlete of the Year (Rowing), Academic All Big-10 honors, and a Leadership Distinction award from the renowned Jeff Janssen Leadership Academy. She went on to earn a master’s degree in Sport and Exercise Psychology from Brunel University in London, competing on the university’s netball team, before repatriating to coach Women’s Crew for the University of Minnesota. She has since earned her Ed.D in Sport and Performance Psychology with a masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of Western States.

Chrissy’s work at Premier Sport Psychology includes developing and facilitating leadership curriculum for clients and university programs, and bringing mindfulness practices and mental skills training to amateur, professional, and Olympic-level athletes. Chrissy also consults for a variety of business organizations and executives to improve leadership and work performance.

When not working at Premier, Chrissy can be found in the yoga studio, where she is a LifePower certified instructor specializing in Flow Free, HIIT yoga, Warrior Sculpt, and yoga/mindfulness fusion.

Chrissy began her time with Premier as a project specialist writing curriculum and facilitating lectures for the company’s Leadership U program at the University of Minnesota, and building to mental performance and leadership development work with local colleges, businesses, and professional franchises like the Minnesota Twins, where her education, considerable ambition, and experiences as a coach for one of the country’s most prestigious athletic programs could be brought into fuller view.