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Sport Psychology is a specialization within the field of psychology that focuses on the mental and emotional operations of performance. It includes a range of services, from performance restoration and optimization, to mental health services to help athletes contend with the pressures associated with sport, and to feel and perform at their best. As a coach, you play a crucial role in helping your clients improve their mental health and well-being. Whether you’re working with individuals who are struggling with anxiety, depression, stress, or any other mental health challenges, your guidance and support can make a real difference.
We offer a wide range of resources and tools to support you in your work as a mental health coach. One of the key areas we focus on is helping coaches develop an understanding of the many different factors that can impact mental health. This includes everything from lifestyle habits and social support to genetics and neurobiology. By taking a holistic approach to mental health coaching, you’ll be better equipped to help your clients identify the root causes of their challenges and develop effective strategies for overcoming them.
We also place a strong emphasis on the importance of self-care for mental health coaches. It’s essential that you prioritize your own well-being in order to be the most effective coach possible.
Bulletproof is committed to setting the standard for mental health care and performance coaching for clients of all levels and vocations.
Toward that end, we have a division devoted to research, analytics, and professional development, ensuring that our staff is current in the latest trends and practices in the fields of mental health and performance psychology, and our clients received the most advanced coaching and care that sport psychology has to offe
Ranya Gruber was born in Houston, TX and has been an athlete since age 4 – where she began her soccer career. At the age of 14, she had a career-ending injury followed by years of navigating her own battle with an eating disorder, depression, anxiety. She learned the dangers of wrapping her entire identity in a sport that could be taken away. She learned how childhood trauma left unattended could follow her through every step of her life until it was faced. Raised by two psychiatrists – mental health was never wforeign to her. She hadn’t yet found her “place” to make an impact until she dove both feet in into bodybuilding.
Kate is passionate about family, mental health, and fitness. Family, to her, is the cornerstone of happiness, as nothing brings her more joy than seeing the world through the eyes of her children and experiencing life with them. Kate takes the role of motherhood so seriously that she stepped away from her professional career to be a stay-at-home mom to her three young children.
Kate has had a long career working in the mental health field, starting as a Psychiatric Nurse in 2009 and becoming a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) in 2014. Kate has worked in a variety of mental health settings throughout her career including inpatient, outpatient, hospital consult liaison, partial hospitalization programs, and teaching. In 2023, Kate earned her doctorate in Nursing Practice.
Another important aspect of Kate’s life is fitness. Growing up, Kate was always active in team sports and competed in long-distance track. Through school sports, Kate was introduced to the importance of weightlifting for strength and conditioning, which she stayed consistent with. 2014 Kate discovered competitive powerlifting and was involved in the sport until 2017. It was at the gym in 2017 when Kate saw a woman training for a physique competition that she knew she had found her next passion, bodybuilding. Kate competed in the bikini division of the NPC in 2018 and both bikini and wellness divisions in 2020. Kate fell in love with bodybuilding and the process of working hard and having the discipline to carry out a long-term goal related to your physique. As a mental health professional, Kate is fully aware of the psychological effects extreme dieting, training, competing, and reverse-dieting can have on a person, as she experienced it firsthand.
Kate believes that Bulletproof Minds is exactly what the bodybuilding industry is missing. Bodybuilders train their bodies daily, but is anyone training their minds to become more resilient? Kate knew Bulletproof Minds was somewhere she belonged. Kate believes the balance between family, mental health, and fitness is the key to a fulfilling life and longevity in bodybuilding. Her mission is to help others with their mental well-being while supporting the bodybuilding lifestyle. Kate is looking forward to getting to know you and hearing your story.
