Performance under pressure
Work with the anxiety, overthinking, and self-criticism that can surface in competition — so your training is available to you when it counts.
Sport psychology · Virtual throughout California
Sport psychology & therapy for athletes.
Vinga Concierge Therapy Group provides private, trauma-informed sport psychology and psychotherapy for competitive and professional athletes — in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and throughout California via secure telehealth. The mental side of performance deserves the same standard of care as the physical.
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When the body knows what to do but something interferes, body-aware and trauma-informed work can reach what insight and repetition alone have not.
Identity beyond the sport
Injury, retirement, and transition ask who you are when the scoreboard is gone. Therapy makes room for that question without rushing it.
The person behind the competitor
Relationships, family history, and old patterns travel with you into the arena. Here, all of it is welcome — not just the performance.
Discretion for public athletes
For athletes whose names and results are public, privacy is built into the work: a discreet practice, secure telehealth, and no waiting rooms.
Equestrian sport expertise
Through The REAL Equestrian, founder Åsa Woodman-Hoffmann has spent years consulting with riders and competitors — she knows equestrian sport from the inside.
The mind is part of the equipment.
Elite athletes train their bodies with extraordinary discipline — yet the mental and emotional side of performance is often left to chance. Confidence that evaporates under pressure, a mistake that replays for weeks, the fear that arrives uninvited at the worst moment: these are not character flaws. They are patterns, and patterns can change.
Our approach is integrative and body-aware. Alongside conversation, we work with the nervous system directly — because performance lives in the body, and so do the blocks that interrupt it.
Therapy that respects the athlete.
You will not be told to want it less, care less, or lower your standards. The drive that made you competitive is treated as a strength here — the work is about giving you more access to it, with less cost to everything else in your life.
Many athletes also carry experiences that predate their sport: pressure, loss, or environments where worth was tied to results. Trauma-informed therapy can address those roots without taking you away from your training or your season.
Private virtual sessions, statewide.
Sessions are held by secure telehealth, so the work fits around training, travel, and competition schedules — from Los Angeles to San Francisco and anywhere in California. No commute, no clinic, no one seeing you walk in.
Reach out directly for a confidential conversation about what you are working with and whether we are the right fit.
Founder & Clinical Director
Åsa Woodman-Hoffmann, MA, LMFT
California LMFT #MFC46670 · Clinical supervisor · Trauma-informed psychotherapist
More than 20 years of clinical experience across private practice, inpatient and residential treatment, aftercare, and clinician training — including primary therapist roles at Promises Malibu and Echo Malibu. Åsa has also founded and run companies of her own.
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