ABOUT The Mental Coach

My experience in sports competition, the medical field and business world gave me a unique perspective on pressure and the mental game.

Studying and using hypnosis and other mental training tools for over 30 years gave me the resources to create my Kenward Mental Coaching Method. My method focuses on customized solutions, using powerful mental game systems and tools.

That's how I can offer fast results, guaranteed, with everyone I accept as a client.

Learning about the mental game

Serving as a U.S. Navy Medical Corpsman in a Naval Hospital Emergency Room made me a believer in the mind/body connection. Those powerful experiences helped me understand that there is more to coping, and thriving, under pressure than what a person thinks.

I learned that the power of expectation and imagination can bring a person soaring up to their potential or send them spiraling down to disaster. This started my learning about mind/body tools.

A motorcycle accident in my 20's left me with a damaged body and chronic pain, with a medical prognosis of just getting worse as I got older. I used my medical experiences as a reality check of human potential, which led me to learning that I could use hypnosis to turn down the pain.

That was such a powerful experience that I kept learning more and more mental training tools to see what else the power of the mind could do - they were my secret weapon in school and business and they can be your secret weapon in your sport, business and even with your health.

Problem-solving through education, training and experience

In college, I combined studying the external (physical sciences) with the internal (psychology, human communication) so I could have a more in-depth understanding of human potential.

In the business world, I learned, and used, many different analytical problem-solving systems in a variety of industries.

I've also had hundreds of hours of professional training in hypnosis, clinical hypnotherapy and other mental training tools.

This education, training and experience helped me understand the difference between thinking about problems and reacting to pressure. This led me to create my mental coaching method for succeeding under pressure (especially in competition), that results in fast results that last.

Family and fun

Everyone needs balance in their life. Family and fun helps with mine. I'm married to a geologist and we have two "canine children."

I love the mountains and am fortunate to live in Sacramento, California, where an hour of driving gets me (and my Doberman Pinscher, Orion) up to the Sierra Nevada mountains (lots of great hiking and camping). But the special travel spot in my heart is Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, where we got married (click here for a great picture) and go back every year to look at one of the most beautiful lakes in the world.

Companion animals are an important part of my life. When I speaks to groups about Managing Stress Under Pressure, I often illustrate key points by telling humorous stories about the adventures of their family dogs Apollo (Doberman Pinscher, he passed away in 2005 but always remembered), Allie (my wife's elderly Black Lab), Maggie (Allie's littermate we adopted at age 11 - she passed away a year later) and Orion (Doberman Pinscher ). You can see more photos of the "crazy dogs" on my personal Facebook page.