Sport Psychology Practitioner
The body rarely fails before the mind does. We think it's time we addressed both under the same roof.
Vanguard is expanding its practitioner network to include a Sport Psychology affiliate who shares our philosophy that mental performance is not a supplement to physical training. It is training.
This is not a clinical referral arrangement. We're looking for a practitioner who wants to be genuinely integrated: present, collaborative, and building something alongside us. Your work should be indistinguishable from the standard of everything else we do here.
If you're a registered practitioner who is tired of being treated as an afterthought in performance environments, we'd like to hear what you'd build if given real space to work.
What We're Looking For
- Registered Psychologist or Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) in good standing, or actively working toward designation
- Minimum two years working with performance, athletic, or high-demand professional populations
- Practical and applied in approach. Able to work outside a purely clinical model
- Experience with areas such as performance under pressure, focus and attention, identity, motivation, and recovery from setback
- Entrepreneurial mindset. Open to co-defining what this role looks like at Vanguard
- A genuine belief that mental performance and physical performance are the same conversation
- Presence that earns trust, not just credentials that assume it
Your 500
No cover letter. We've read enough of those.
Instead, we want exactly 500 words that answer four things. Not separately. Woven together, the way real thought actually works.
What you believe about people that most practitioners get wrong.
Not a theory. A conviction. Something you've arrived at through experience, failure, or obsession. Something you would defend in a room full of people who disagree. Bonus points if it's something you had to unlearn about yourself first.
The moment you almost walked away.
From this career, this path, this belief that what you do actually matters. What happened. What it felt like. And what made you stay, or come back.
What you'd dismantle about your industry, and what you would build instead.
One thing. The real one. And more importantly, what replaces it.
The gap between the standard you hold yourself to and the standard you hold your clients to.
Be honest. Most people have one. Tell us what it is, how you found it, and what you did about it. If you say there's no gap, tell us why we should believe you.
Write it however it comes naturally. Structure doesn't matter. Honesty does. We care about whether the person writing this is the same person who shows up to work.
Attach your CV and send both to careers@vanguardperformance.ca.
The Only Rule
Exactly 500 words. Not 498. Not 503. Precision is the first test.