Carrie Jackson lives in Northern California and is a certified mental performance consultant and expert in strategies for optimal performance and resilience. Carrie is one of the foremost experts specializing in mental skills training for athletes and exercisers with diabetes. She is author of the book On Top of Your Game: Mental Skills to Maximize Your Athletic Performance and co-author of Rebound: Train Your Mind to Bounce Back Stronger from Sports Injuries, as well as the co-host of the podcast The Injured Athletes Club. Carrie has worked with athletes and performers of all ages and at every level, from recreational athletes to elite and professional athletes competing at national and international levels.
Carrie has been interviewed as an expert resource for articles that have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, HuffingtonPost, U.S. News & World Report, Outside Magazine, Shape Magazine, Men’s Fitness, Women’s Health, Runner’s World and Women’s Running Magazine. In addition to her consulting practice, she has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in sport psychology and is currently an affiliate faculty member at Holy Names University in Oakland, California.
Carrie is energetic, fun, has a great sense of humor and employs a real-life approach to working on the mental aspects of sport and performance with the people she works with. Carrie has her own personal commitment to life-long fitness and when she isn’t working, you might find her running a trail or hitting the slopes on her snowboard.
