Gerard has worked as a Sport Psychologist for over 20 years. Early in his career he set up a sport psych program in adolescent mental health within the NSW health system. The program was the first of its kind and worked as an adjunct to traditional therapy for adolescent mental health inpatients and was highly successful. He honed his clinical skills in this space.

He soon turned his focus to elite sport performance improvement and has had great success working with athletes, teams, coaches and families across, Olympic, Paralympic, professional and recreational sport. He has been a part of Olympic and Paralympic medals, Commonwealth Games medals, multiple World Champions and numerous PBs.  His PE teaching background helped him to devise processes and strategies that make sense to sports people and follows the same processes they are used to in building physical skills.  His clinical psychology background allows understanding of how the ‘human condition’ impacts us all and simply requires an awareness, an understanding, an acceptance and a simple process to manage it and to thrive.

Gerard still has a great enthusiasm for building awareness and excellence in high performance sport and says performance improvement is in his DNA. He has long believed these skills should be taught at school and recently has had the opportunity to ‘put his money where his mouth is’ and is doing just that at PLC Sydney, where he works as a Sport & Performance Psychologist aimed at benefitting not just sports students but all students in all ways.  Naturally, a school’s focus is academic achievement and he has found great success supporting students through senior years with their assessments, exams and HSC and in particular managing the demands  experienced by the student athlete. Stress management, time management, planning and motivation are major areas of this focus.

Gerard currently works with athletes, teams, coaches, students and their families in all areas of sport and performance psychology.