Auran Piatigorsky

As a licensed clinical sports psychologist, I optimize the mental health and athletic performance of elite athletes with a novel sport psychology curriculum entitled Dialectical Sports Skills. Also, as a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley (Cal), I teach and provide supervision to graduate students. I earned my BA at the University of Colorado, Boulder. After college, I led wilderness expeditions in remote mountains, deserts, oceans, and rivers around the world. These experiences highlighted for me the interplay of stress, psychology, and performance. Later, I earned my MA and PhD in clinical psychology at Cal. I then completed a fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Consequently, my current psychology practice is based in science. I settled as a faculty member at the UCSF Cognitive and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (CBT/DBT) Clinics. This experience equipped me to treat the vast majority of mental health issues that are encountered by athletes. Now, in my independent practice, I provide bespoke services to athletes, coaches, teams, and others.