ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the author's experience as a probationary sport psychologist working with a young team. To become qualified as a psychologist in Australia, one needs to graduate from an accredited program, which normally provides a sufficient amount of theoretical training, research opportunity, internship/practicum experience, and professional supervision. The author was very familiar with sport psychology and, at that time, took action and brought sport psychology services into both junior teams. Based on his graduate training, particularly at the time when he delivered services to the hockey team, psychological skills training (PST) and cognitive and behavioral therapies were the key sources guiding his intervention. A PST model was appropriate because it emphasizes skill development rather than "fixing" athlete's mental problems. With regards to the consulting experience, one main area of reflection was the limitation of only providing weekly workshops to the team.
