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About Dr. Chris Friesen, Ph.D.
I’ve always been fascinated by biographies of successful people and those who
have overcome adversity. I can still remember how enthralled I was as a teenager
when I read the autobiographies of Arthur Ashe and Christopher Reeve. Their
stories and the inspirational books of Anthony Robbins (Awaken the Giant Within
and Unlimited Power) and Stephen Covey (The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People
and First Things First) captured my attention about our potential as humans and
our ability to improve ourselves.
This was personalized for me when I began to play competitive hockey. As a
goaltender, I quickly realized the importance of mental training in addition to
physical training. I was able to see steady improvements in all aspects of my
performance when I consistently incorporated strategies I gleaned from my
interest in self-help literature, fitness techniques, and nutrition. It was with
these experiences that I began to form my interest in psychology.
Upon realizing that a professional sports career was not in my future, I turned
my attention to earning my first degree in Health Studies before pursuing a
second degree in Psychology. After 5 years of full time study to obtain both of
my undergraduate degrees, I still hadn’t satisfied my appetite for learning
about the mind and brain. So I applied and was accepted to study clinical
psychology in graduate school. I decided to study clinical psychology over
psychiatry in my post-graduate work because of psychology’s stronger focus on
understanding the full spectrum of human nature as opposed to psychiatry’s
primary emphasis on psychopathology.
Now as a licensed psychologist in Ontario, Canada, my official areas of practice
include clinical psychology, clinical neuropsychology, and forensic/correctional
psychology. My training and experience crosses a broad spectrum of psychological
difficulties including working with individuals with anxiety, depression,
personality disorders, dementias (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease), brain injuries
(from sports concussion to severe traumatic brain injuries), and those involved
in the criminal justice system (i.e., offenders of all types). I have worked
clinically in a university psychology clinic, psychiatric hospital,
rehabilitation hospital for those with brain injuries, geriatric hospital,
prison and in private practices. I believed that to truly understand success and
potential,
I needed to thoroughly understand and work with people of all types including
those who were at their lowest points and those who were not living up to their
potential. I now primarily focus on professional, national/Olympic, and
up-and-coming elite athletes, as well as other high achievers such as
professionals, entrepreneurs, executives, academics, and writers, achieve their
personal and professional potential. I am currently director of Friesen Sport &
Performance Psychology and a contributor to Success.com. I’m also the author of
Achieve: Find Out Who You Are, What You Really Want, and How To Make It Happen
(Book 1 of the High Achievement Handbook Series).
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