Marilyn Gansel, PsyDPositive Performance Coach

Where performance meets wellbeing.

Integrating functional medicine principles, behavioral psychology, and performance science to support athletes, executives, and adolescents performing under sustained pressure.

Portrait of Marilyn Gansel, PsyD, performance coach

For adolescents

Adolescent Coaching

12 weeks · weekly 30-minute virtual sessions

A dedicated track for adolescents managing school demands, an extracurricular load, and the social world of growing up, often all at once. Coaching gives an adolescent a structured place to step back from the pressure, understand how they work best, and build the habits that hold up under real academic and social stress.

Who it is for

  • Adolescents carrying a heavy course load or a demanding extracurricular schedule
  • Adolescents whose sleep, stress, or motivation is slipping even while grades hold
  • Students in a transition: a new school, a harder program, or a new team
  • Adolescents who shut down when parents ask how they are doing and would work better with a coach

What it builds

  • Resilience, so a poor grade or a bad week is recoverable instead of defining
  • Skill-building in study habits, time management, and asking for help
  • Self-confidence that carries into class, competition, and home
  • Academic success and performance, not simply getting by
  • Social skills: reading a room, handling conflict, keeping friendships steady
  • Self-care and stress recovery routines that fit a real adolescent schedule

For parents

Parents can start with an email or a call. Share a little about your adolescent and what seems to be going on, and we can talk about what coaching would focus on and whether it is the right fit.

Not sure where to start?

Tell me what you are seeing in your adolescent and what you hope will change. You will get personalized questions to reflect on and clear next steps for your inquiry.

AI-powered. Please avoid full names. Not a substitute for professional or emergency care.

Grounded in adolescent well-being science from my youth specialization training with the Youth Coaching Institute (YCI).

Signature offerings

12 weeks · weekly sessions

Individual performance work

A full arc: assessment, skill training under pressure, and a sustaining protocol. For athletes and executives.

  • Structured intake and load assessment
  • Weekly 50-minute sessions
  • Between-session protocols and measures
  • Written progress summary

8 weeks

Burnout to balance intensive

For professionals in active depletion. Recovery architecture first, then a controlled return to demand.

  • Recovery and sleep restructuring
  • Workload and boundary design
  • Values and role recalibration
  • Relapse-prevention plan

10 weeks

Midlife vitality reset

Energy, strength, and cognitive durability through behavior change grounded in functional medicine principles.

  • Baseline vitality assessment
  • Movement and nutrition behavior design
  • Habit instrumentation
  • Quarterly recalibration option

Pricing may vary based on scope and needs.

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Explore the books

Not ready for a conversation? Start with the writing. Each book is a practical entry point into the same performance and wellbeing work.

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