Dr. Adam Gallenberg

Adam Gallenberg, Ph.D., LP is a licensed psychologist and sport and performance consultant. Adam’s path into sport psychology was an innovative one. While completing his doctorate from the University of Iowa, Adam was offering counseling and career services to students, veterans, athletes, and the general adult population. Simultaneously, he was also coaching professional and amateur boxers while competing in the amateurs himself.

In addition to his boxing background, Adam also competed at the national level in ballroom and Latin dancing, identifying the mental components of team development and body awareness. He combined his passions for the sport of boxing and ballroom dancing with his knowledge of exercise science and psychology, noting the benefits of exercise to addressing mental wellness concerns. This insight inspired a shift from traditional counseling psychology into the psychology of performance, where his research focused on the relationship between high intensity exercise and help-seeking attitudes, and his early client work steered toward combat sport athletes.

Adam joined Premier Sport Psychology in 2019, where he continues to work with athletes across all ages and sports and continues to focus on addressing mental wellness as a spectrum of development. His approach to mental performance highlights the importance of resilience training, bringing a “fighter’s mindset” for managing adversity to performers of all disciplines. From the golf course to the swimming pool, the fighter’s mindset often becomes the game changer to unlock one’s peak performance when it is desired the most.

When not working at Premier, Adam continues to put the work elsewhere – balancing his time between the boxing gym, where he still coaches and trains regularly, and spending time with his family.