Dr. Katy Tran Turner has provided individual and team mental performance coaching for executives and professional, collegiate, and tactical athletes in various settings. She has worked with first-responders and professionals in dynamic environments to leverage their personal strengths in order to thrive in challenging moments. Dr. Turner has been a part of integrated high performance teams for National Hockey League and National Football League franchises, as well as providing mental performance consulting for NASCAR pit crews. She also taught as a professor, while serving as a mentor for early professionals in the field of sport and performance psychology. Dr. Turner’s early career was influenced by her work as a civilian contractor with the United States Army, during which she received extensive training in developing resilience and mental performance strategies for Soldiers and their families.

Dr. Turner is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, and a member of the American Psychological Association Division 47 (Society for Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology). She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (specialization in Sport and Performance Psychology) from Florida State University, her master's degree in Exercise Physiology from Kent State University, and her undergraduate degrees in Biology and Exercise & Sport Science from UNC-Chapel Hill. She played in goal for the field hockey team at UNC-Chapel Hill and was the starting goalkeeper for three years, while earning All-America honors.