services
Performance-Based Psychotherapy
Are you a high performer looking to remove barriers, refine your mental skills, and consistently show up at your best?
Our work begins with an initial consultation to understand your background, clarify your goals, identify strengths, and examine the psychological and emotional factors that may be impacting performance.
As a licensed psychologist and performance coach, I collaborate with you to develop a personalized plan aligned with your needs and aspirations. Session frequency and duration are flexible and determined together.
Through this work, you will develop:
Mental skills and strategies that support consistency and excellence in your sport or profession
Insight into patterns that may be limiting performance, confidence, or fulfillment
Tools to enhance resilience, self-trust, and the ability to perform under pressure
This integrated approach supports both immediate performance gains and deeper, longer-term personal and professional growth.
Session Locations & Availability
Virtual sessions
Dr. Avellar and Jenna Armstrong provides virtual services to clients in Pennsylvania and New York. Dr. Avellar also holds a PSYPACT credential, which allows him to provide services in most U.S. states.
In-person
Limited in-person sessions are available when working with Dr. Avellar at his office in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Mindful sports performance enhancement (MSPE)
Looking for performance enhancement and want a time-limited and skills-based approach?
What is MSPE?
Developed by The MSPE Institute, MSPE® is a high impact mindfulness training program for performers who want to win more often and perform with greater consistency. In just six structured sessions, you learn proven mental skills adapted from the gold standard MBSR program to sharpen attention, reduce stress, and elevate execution under pressure.
What you will learn
Each session provides practical tools you can use immediately, guiding you from foundational exercises to mindfulness in motion. Techniques are applied directly to your performance demands—your swing, stride, serve, stage presence, or leadership moments.
How MSPE helps you improve
MSPE gives you a clear and repeatable daily routine, allowing you to train your mind with the same discipline you bring to your work or physical task. It is fully customizable for any sport or performance arena and can be delivered in groups or individually.
Designed for athletes, executives, creatives, and all high achievers, MSPE helps you perform at your best, on command.
MSPE Package
Six structured one-hour sessions and one final feedback session to troubleshoot any areas that still challenge you.
Customized training plan
Supplemental resources to support practice between sessions
Sessions are currently offered only by Dr. Avellar and can be done virtually from anywhere or in-person in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA.