Coaching Services

With a degree in Sports Psychology, Mary works individually or in a team setting with athletes at all levels. Mary applies principles and techniques to engage, equip, and empower athletes to achieve peak performance. Session focus on overall mental health, character, leadership, and the transfer of athletics to life beyond sport. Sessions are custom, individual, and in alignment with the desires of the athlete and/or team.

Topics of training include:

• Performance anxiety
• Goal setting and daily time management
• Focus and concentration
• Positive self talk
• Coping with setbacks
• Balancing academics and athletics
• Handling external pressures
• Mental Skills training
• Performance enhancement
• Emotional and behavioral support
• Communication with teammates & coaches
• Recruiting Strategy/next level platform
• Film evaluation

The most important person you lead is yourself. Get your mental and physical life prioritized and organized and you will never be the same. Our life follows our mental health and a session with Coach Cranston will put you on the path to better work-life-harmony. 

Topics of training include:

• Enhancing presence and confidence
• Leading with emotional intelligence
• Mastering difficult conversations
• Speaking and presentation skills
• Navigating change
• Overcoming procrastination 
• Employee engagement and motivation
• Managing and supporting mental health issues in the workplace

Parenting coaching will help parents strategize to effectively support their children. Every session is 60-90 minutes long to help parents come up with a detailed itinerary. 

Topics of training include:

• Organizing home structure for efficiency
• Making school/academic choices
• Strengthening the child-parent bond
• Navigating difficult conversations (bullying, puberty)
• Strategies to support your child's mental health (anxiety, depression, adhd, social skills)
• Implement discipline system
• Setting boundaries around screen time
• Managing parental burnout
• Balancing work and family life
• Education and academic support
• Managing school related stressors
• Fostering resilience and confidence in kids
• Co-parenting strategies

Our life is as happy as our relationships are! Coach Cranston's relational coaching sessions cover the understanding of personal processing, core beliefs, daily touch points, building intimacy, commitment, and trust. Relational coaching helps individuals and valued other (parent-adult child or mom-daughter or father-son or boyfriend-girlfriend or friend-friend or work-boss or grandparenting; build healthier, more fulfilling relationships. 

Session focus varies based on client needs, however, common topics of training include:

• Defining individual core values and values together in the relationship
• Developing separateness and togetherness in the relationship
• Active listening and effective communication skills
• Navigating tough conversations
• Setting and respecting boundaries
• Improving trust and deeper connection
• Strengthening bonds in family members
• Managing roles and expectations in friendship
• Resolving conflict with loved ones
• Navigating life transitions (parenthood, empty nest, loss, relocation,etc.)
• Improving workplace collaboration
• Handling colleagues and bosses

Performance and sports psychology coaching can provide training to help athletes improve their mental game, enhance performance, and foster team cohesion. Training is available for individual athletes, training partners, teams and coaching staff athletic programs.

Topics of training include:

• Strategic mapping the season for success
• Managing nerves and anxiety
• Develop team core values
• Overcome setbacks 
• Enhance attention control
• Blocking out distractions
• Using mindfulness for concentration
• Overcome self-doubt
• Visualization tools for  success 
• Effective communication on and off the field
• Handling high pressure situations
• Understanding personality and wiring
• The role of sleep and nutrition
• Managing fatigue and burnout
• Work-life-harmony in athletics

As a speaker, Mary is engaging, knowledgeable and able to inspire others with a compelling message. She has a strong presence, clear articulation is relevant to the audience she is speaking to. As a keynote speaker she understands the power of pacing, pushing and challenging listeners. Most importantly, , she leaves the audience with actionable insights, fresh perspective and a renewed sense of motivation.

Topics of training include:

• Confrontation All Star~my conflict resolution strategy? Hide and hope it goes away!
• Work-Life-Harmony~the power of a daily visionary itinerary!
• Dumping Perfectionism and Embracing Excellence~the power of self compassion!
• Regulate Emotional Resilience~getting off the emotional tilt-a-whirl!
• The Womans Web;an interconnected structure~glitch in the glam system!
• Stop Crashing into Chaos~ boundaries & borders are the seatbelts to personal peace!
• Overwhelmed On-Repeat~ plot twist from stress to success!
• Mental Overload Management~my brain is a 24/7 convenience store-never closes!