Rick Sessinghaus, Psy.D, PGA

Rick Sessinghaus is known as “Golf’s Mental Coach”. Rick is the expert on the mindset principles that make or break performance on and off the course. His coaching has helped top junior, collegiate, and professional golfers reach new levels of performance. He is an Instructional Editor for Golf Tips magazine and can be seen on Fox Sports Network as a mental game contributor. Rick’s book Golf: The Ultimate Mind Game has been featured in national golf magazines and used by leading golf instructors across the country as the “best resource to improve your mental game.”

Rick is a sought after speaker and trainer to those companies looking to improve the key skills of motivation, focus, confidence, and execution. Rick’s Take AIM system for mastering the mental game skills has been used in his unique business trainings where Rick uses golf as the metaphor for improving business performance.

As a former professional golfer, Rick has now found more satisfaction helping others achieve their dreams than he did in his own competitive career. Long intrigued by the fact that physical skills were rarely the determining factor in athletic success Rick studied the mental and emotional skills that make or break a performance adding to his Bachelors Degree in Speech Communications, Rick received his Masters and Doctorate Degree in Applied Sports Psychology.

As Rick continues to enrich the quality of people's lives through his proven performance enhancement system, he is constantly researching the latest scientific findings pertinent to achievement. Rick lives with his beautiful wife Kathy and daughters Grace and Katy, and son Grant in Burbank, CA.

  • Member of the PGA (Professional Golfers Association of America)
  • Certified Master Trainer of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
  • Member of AASP (Association of Applied Sports Psychology)
  • Mental Game Certified Professional
  • Trained to administer/evaluate the TAIS (The Attentional and Interpersonal Style inventory), which has been used with Olympic athletes, CEO's of Fortune 500 companies, high ranking military personnel, and many others looking to improve their performance.
  • Owner of Sessinghaus Performance Systems Inc.