Sport Psychology: Prospective Students

All program costs/expenses are covered by the graduate assistantship through the McMillin Center.  An additional stipend of roughly $16,000 per year is paid to a GA.

• Development and delivery of outreach programming to JMU Student-athletes as well as local D-III and HS teams
  • Dukes Excel
  • McMillin Center
• Provision of mental performance consulting services to a JMU team
• Counseling student-athletes at JMU’s Counseling Center during the third year
• Content creation (e.g., social media, videos, infographics, flyers)
• Participation as a member of an interdisciplinary team of athletic-based staff which aims to address student-athlete mental health needs on campus – Care and Recovery Enhancement Team (CARE Team)

Robert Harmison – a licensed psychologist in VA, an AASP CMPC and certified supervisor, and AASP President-elect – serves as the primary supervisor for GA’s through the McMillin Center.

UC-Davis, Lehigh University, JMU, Appalachian State University

• Staff sport psychologist specialist at the University of Notre Dame
• Postdoctoral resident at Lehigh University --> staff clinician at Northwestern University
• Athletic psychologist at the University of Nebraska
• Resident in psychology at JMU --> clinical psychologist at Drexel

January 15th, 2023