Kevin Alschuler, PhD, combines his passion for competition with his expertise in sport and performance psychology to help athletes, coaches, teams, and businesses excel in their competitive environment. Based in the Seattle, WA, area, Dr. Alschuler works at the national level supporting athletes, teams, and businesses who are already at the top of their field, as well as those who are developing, growing, and emerging onto the scene.
For nearly 20 years, Dr. Alschuler has been an innovator in sport and performance psychology. His work spans the spectrum from what might be viewed as “traditional sport psychology” to new collaborations that have changed the way sport and performance psychology are utilized to improve performance. His traditional work has included consulting with athletes, coaches, teams, and legal and business leaders on common sport and performance psychology topics that range from managing challenges to learning to leverage the mental game to enhance performance. Beyond this work, Dr. Alschuler has partnered with coaches, strength and conditioning coaches, data analysts, and other performance scientists to make meaningful changes based on how play calling, game strategy, timeouts, lineup selections, and more intersect with the mental domain. As a believer that there is a psychological component in everything people do, Dr. Alschuler enjoys working alongside non-psychologists to weave best practices in sport and performance psychology into their work.
Dr. Alschuler has been honored to be called on by competitors at the top of their field - participants in the Olympics, World Championships, FIFA World Cup, and Rugby World Cup, as well as professionals across the major US sports leagues, professional golfers (PGA TOUR, LPGA Tour, Korn Ferry Tour, EPSON Tour, mini tour), ultramarathon runners and other endurance athletes, high performing collegiate teams and athletes, Fortune 500 companies, and more. Athletes and teams he has worked with have gone on to win elite, professional, NCAA, high school, and AJGA championships, and accomplish such feats as running across the US and rowing across the Atlantic. He also has extensive experience working with athletes who are on the cusp of major achievements (making the PGA Tour or LPGA Tour, qualifying for the Olympic team, signing major professional contracts, earning scholarship offers from major college programs) and are looking to get over the top. In addition, he has had the good fortune of partnering with highly accomplished coaches who have earned national and international coach of the year accolades. (Click here for more details on Performance Consulting)
In addition to sport and business consultation, Dr. Alschuler has been on faculty in the University of Washington School of Medicine since 2012. After spending over a decade supporting individuals living with injuries and illnesses, he moved into Intercollegiate Athletics, now serving as a Team Clinical and Sport Psychologist. In addition to his work as a clinician, Dr. Alschuler has had an extensive career in both rehabilitation and sport research at UW. In sport he has published extensively on the psychological factors that support high performance in extreme endurance events, resulting in multiple popular press articles in Outside and other publications. In total, he has published >85 peer-reviewed articles and appeared in news publications such as New York Times, Boston Globe, and US News & World Report. Along the way, he has earned a number of honors, including from the American Psychological Association.
Born and raised in Madison, WI, Dr. Alschuler enjoyed being a multi-sport athlete, eventually growing to become a high school all-American in swimming and a high level competitor in golf. He went on to compete in rowing for the University of Michigan (BA, ‘04), where his team finished in the top 12 in the country all four years; he then competed post-collegiately in competitions across North America. While in Clinical Psychology graduate school at Eastern Michigan University (MS ‘06, PhD ‘10), he was the head coach of Ann Arbor Rowing Club, an assistant rowing coach at the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University, and volunteered with Rowing Canada. He finished his training with an internship at the Boston Consortium of Clinical Psychology (VA Boston / Harvard Medical School / Boston University School of Medicine) and clinical and research fellowships at the University of Washington School of Medicine. His wife, Heather, competed for Canada in rowing in the 2006 and 2007 World Championships and the 2008 Olympics. They live with their children and dog in Edmonds, WA.
Dr. Alschuler can be reached at kevin@kevinalschuler.com or through this contact form.
For nearly 20 years, Dr. Alschuler has been an innovator in sport and performance psychology. His work spans the spectrum from what might be viewed as “traditional sport psychology” to new collaborations that have changed the way sport and performance psychology are utilized to improve performance. His traditional work has included consulting with athletes, coaches, teams, and legal and business leaders on common sport and performance psychology topics that range from managing challenges to learning to leverage the mental game to enhance performance. Beyond this work, Dr. Alschuler has partnered with coaches, strength and conditioning coaches, data analysts, and other performance scientists to make meaningful changes based on how play calling, game strategy, timeouts, lineup selections, and more intersect with the mental domain. As a believer that there is a psychological component in everything people do, Dr. Alschuler enjoys working alongside non-psychologists to weave best practices in sport and performance psychology into their work.
Dr. Alschuler has been honored to be called on by competitors at the top of their field - participants in the Olympics, World Championships, FIFA World Cup, and Rugby World Cup, as well as professionals across the major US sports leagues, professional golfers (PGA TOUR, LPGA Tour, Korn Ferry Tour, EPSON Tour, mini tour), ultramarathon runners and other endurance athletes, high performing collegiate teams and athletes, Fortune 500 companies, and more. Athletes and teams he has worked with have gone on to win elite, professional, NCAA, high school, and AJGA championships, and accomplish such feats as running across the US and rowing across the Atlantic. He also has extensive experience working with athletes who are on the cusp of major achievements (making the PGA Tour or LPGA Tour, qualifying for the Olympic team, signing major professional contracts, earning scholarship offers from major college programs) and are looking to get over the top. In addition, he has had the good fortune of partnering with highly accomplished coaches who have earned national and international coach of the year accolades. (Click here for more details on Performance Consulting)
In addition to sport and business consultation, Dr. Alschuler has been on faculty in the University of Washington School of Medicine since 2012. After spending over a decade supporting individuals living with injuries and illnesses, he moved into Intercollegiate Athletics, now serving as a Team Clinical and Sport Psychologist. In addition to his work as a clinician, Dr. Alschuler has had an extensive career in both rehabilitation and sport research at UW. In sport he has published extensively on the psychological factors that support high performance in extreme endurance events, resulting in multiple popular press articles in Outside and other publications. In total, he has published >85 peer-reviewed articles and appeared in news publications such as New York Times, Boston Globe, and US News & World Report. Along the way, he has earned a number of honors, including from the American Psychological Association.
Born and raised in Madison, WI, Dr. Alschuler enjoyed being a multi-sport athlete, eventually growing to become a high school all-American in swimming and a high level competitor in golf. He went on to compete in rowing for the University of Michigan (BA, ‘04), where his team finished in the top 12 in the country all four years; he then competed post-collegiately in competitions across North America. While in Clinical Psychology graduate school at Eastern Michigan University (MS ‘06, PhD ‘10), he was the head coach of Ann Arbor Rowing Club, an assistant rowing coach at the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University, and volunteered with Rowing Canada. He finished his training with an internship at the Boston Consortium of Clinical Psychology (VA Boston / Harvard Medical School / Boston University School of Medicine) and clinical and research fellowships at the University of Washington School of Medicine. His wife, Heather, competed for Canada in rowing in the 2006 and 2007 World Championships and the 2008 Olympics. They live with their children and dog in Edmonds, WA.
Dr. Alschuler can be reached at kevin@kevinalschuler.com or through this contact form.