• Performance Psychologist to Executives, Athletes, and High Achievers

    For those who refuse to underperform.

    I'm Dr. Joel Ingersoll, a clinical psychologist, master-certified performance coach, and sports psychologist with over 20 years of working with D-1 and professional athletes, executives and leaders, and high achievers.

    I combine performance psychology, evidence-based coaching, functional health testing, and fitness integration to help serious people perform at the level their ambition demands.

    If you have outgrown therapy and need more than a business coach, this is where you belong.

  • ClearMind Leadership Lab

    Performance coaching for executives and high achievers who refuse to leave potential on the table. High-performing professionals operate in environments where decisions carry real consequences. The pressure to lead, execute, and remain mentally sharp is constant.
    My work with executives focuses on strengthening the psychological skills required to perform under pressure—clarity of thinking, disciplined decision-making, emotional regulation, and sustained performance over time.
    Clients often seek support when navigating leadership transitions, burnout risk, performance plateaus, or moments when the stakes suddenly feel higher than before.
    If you’re navigating leadership pressure and want to strengthen how you think and perform under it, we can begin with a private consultation.

  • Executive Functioning Peformance Lab

    Many capable students struggle not because they lack ability, but because the pressure to perform begins to overwhelm their ability to think clearly and execute consistently.
    I work with motivated students—often high achievers or student-athletes—who want to strengthen their focus, discipline, and resilience as they navigate academic demands, college transitions, and high personal expectations. The goal is not simply to reduce stress, but to help students develop the executive functioning, emotional intelligence, and mental skills required to perform well while maintaining balance and perspective.
    Students who want to strengthen focus, resilience, and performance under academic pressure can begin with a consultation.
    Parents often initiate the first conversation when a driven student is navigating high expectations or a challenging transition.

    *Now Enrolling for summer: EFPL Pre-college 1:1 coaching program for Fall 2026 college families.

  • Sports Psychology & Mental Performance Coaching

    Athletic performance depends as much on mental preparation as physical training. The ability to stay composed, focused, and resilient under pressure often determines the outcome when competition intensifies.
    I work with athletes to strengthen the psychological skills that support consistent performance—confidence, concentration, recovery from setbacks, and the ability to compete freely under pressure.
    This work is especially valuable for athletes navigating high expectations, performance slumps, injury recovery, or transitions to higher levels of competition.

  • Bio

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    My careeer has been spent at the intersection of two worlds most practicioners occupy separately: the clinical depth to understand what is actually driving underperformance and the performance coaching framework to do something about it quickly. I began my career at Lehigh University in 2002 as a Staff Psychologist and Coordinator of Alcohol & Other Drug Services, where my work with the university's D-1 athletic programs as a sports psychology consultant began. I later served as Associate Director of Counseling Services while simultaneously building my independent private practice which I founded in 2005 and have maintained as a full-time thriving private ever since. Throughout those years I also served as Affiliate and Adjunct Faculty teaching graduate level coursework in advanced psychopathology, psychopharmacology, and group theory and dynamics. I completed a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University, one of a select number of APA-accredited doctoral programs in the country, and hold an MA in Applied Social and Community Psychology - a combination that informs how I work with individuals and the organizational systems they operate within. My research has been published in the Journal of Personality Assessment.

    I founded ClearMind Leadership Lab for people who have always performed at a high level and know they are capable of more. My work isn't therapy and isn't generic coaching. It's a rigorous, evidenced-based approach to performance built around what you speciafically need - whether you're an executive closing the gap between where you are and where your ambition points, an athlete whose mental game isn't matching your physical preparation or recovery, or a student with every capability but not yet the operating system to actualize strengths and talents..

    I'm also the author of Fix-It Fatigue: How Gen-X Parents Can Stop Fixing Everything and Start Raising Adults Who Can Handle Anything, and have been featured as a performance and mental health expert in People Magazine, Fox News, WPIX-11 News, and WFAN.

    If any of this sounds like where you are right now - I'd like to talk.

  • Contact

    Phone: (908) 509-1972

    Office Location: 200 Connell Drive, Suite 1000, Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922

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