5 Steps to maintaining peak performance - Learning from champions
Discover what the 5 “A’s” of champions are that help maintain their peak performance over extended periods of time.
Mrs Toni Gaddie
Clinical Psychologist
“Sports/Clinical Psychologist & Performance Coach assisting top sports people, performing artists, business leaders and organisations.”
About Me
I am a Clinical Psychologist in Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa. I offer online therapy, performance coaching and relationship counseling. I help you set clear goals and build simple steps for better communication and focus.
Approach
A former world-ranked professional tennis player who represented South Africa, Toni Gaddie is a clinical and sports psychologist. Toni specialises in those qualities, skills and tools that create “whole champions” in all aspects of life. She is the co-founder of the Champion Academy with her sister Rikki Dworcan.
For over 20 years, Toni has been interviewing and studying many sporting world champions with a view to understanding and codifying their winning mind-sets. Her master’s degree thesis in psychology is entitled The Making of Champions: A Constructed Reality.
She has attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland twice where she workshopped and learned from a number of leaders in their respective fields, including Daniel Goldman (a pioneer of emotional intelligence), Jon Kabat-Zinn (a pioneer of mindfulness in the western world), Paul Coelho (world-renowned author of The Alchemist), Marissa Mayer (former CEO of Google and Yahoo) and Saul Perlmutter (winner of the 2011 Noble Prize for physics).
A regular contributor to Radio 702 on the subject of performance psychology, Toni consults with and presents to top national and international sportspeople, performing artists and business leaders and their organisations with a view to “growing whole champions”. Toni is married to Allon Raiz and they have two young sons.
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Basic Information
Services
Toni Gaddie is a clinical psychologist that specialises in champions, and in particular, sports champions. Based on her experience as an internationally ranked professional tennis player, Toni has dedicated her life to enabling sports champions to achieve top rankings in their particular sport. I will be offering online consultations through the COVID-19 Crisis.
Services Offered:
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Relationship Counseling
Counselling for couples or partners focused on improving communication, rebuilding trust, and strengthening emotional connection.
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Sport Psychology
A branch of psychology focused on the mental aspects of athletic performance, including focus, motivation, pressure management, and recovery from injury.
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Skills Training
Structured programmes that teach practical coping and life skills, such as emotional regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance.
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Works With:
- •All ages
- •Organisations
Area of Expertise
Scope of Practice:
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Online Therapy
Therapy sessions conducted over video call, phone, or secure messaging, using the same professional methods delivered remotely.
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Performance
The psychological factors (confidence, focus, pressure management) that influence how well a person performs in sport, academics, the arts, or work.
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Personal Development
The ongoing process of self-awareness, self-improvement, and reaching one's potential, pursued not because something is wrong but to live more fully.
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Relationship Counseling
Counselling for couples or partners focused on improving communication, rebuilding trust, and strengthening emotional connection.
Professional Title:
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Clinical Psychologist
An advanced mental health professional trained to assess and treat a wide range of difficulties, from anxiety and depression to trauma and complex conditions.
Qualifications
University of South Africa (UNISA)
Registrations
Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA)
Psychologist
