Our Team of Mental Training Experts
Mastering the Energy of Peak Performance 
We provide mental training and injury recovery for Olympic Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medalist, and other Olympic Athletes and Olympic hopefuls. We see athletes and coaches from the NFL including NFL All Pro’s in many different positions, NBA players, NBA All Stars, MLB and minor league players, MLB All Stars, Olympic Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medalist in men’s and women’s gymnastics, Olympic Gold and Silver Medalist in swimming. Olympic teams, World Champions, top sprinters and pole vault athletes from track & field. Our staff has worked with Heisman Trophy winners, Davey O’Brien Award winners and finalists, Ray Guy finalists, NCAA All Americans in football, baseball, basketball, track & field, fencing, golf, figure skating, tennis, and gymnastics. We have also work with Olympic hopefuls in gymnastics, trampoline, fencing, judo, swimming, wrestling, luge, and equestrian. We also see younger junior high, high school, and college athletes.
About Our Founder Robert Andrews
Robert Andrews, M.A., founder and director of The Institute of Sports Performance, has been in private practice as a sports performance consultant and licensed therapist for 22 years.
Robert has developed a performance model that focuses on mastering the mental and emotional energy for performance.
In the 2016 Rio Olympics he worked with numerous Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medalist in swimming and gymnastics. Robert attended the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympic games where he worked with U.S.A. and international athletes in gymnastics, trampoline, and track & field.
Locally he works with or has worked with with the Houston Texans, Houston Astros, Houston Rockets, Houston Dash and local universities like the University of Houston, Houston Baptist University and Rice University. His passion is working with athletes, teams, and sports cultures, as they strive to reach peak athletic potential, and create healthy and empowering sports cultures.
He is an expert at assisting injured athletes in overcoming the mental and emotional impact of their sports related injury. Having suffered many serious sports related injuries, Robert understands and empathizes with athletes finding their way back from serious sports related injuries.
He also works with coaches and teams.
Robert is married and has two kids. His wife Gisele was a standout volleyball player. His son Galen played college baseball, and his daughter Abby played high school and club volleyball. Robert maintains an active and balanced lifestyle that promotes all around mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health and well being.
Michael Heck
Michael was passionate about athletics from the moment he could walk! Playing multiple sports was normal until high school when football and cross country running were the sports or choice.
He’s completed five marathons in Los Angeles and San Diego. He coached marathon runners at Azusa Pacific University. He played football at Azusa Pacific University as well. He’s coached high school football at Saugus High (CA) and Billings West High (MT). He currently coaches football at Second Baptist school in Houston.
He’s completed an MA in Clinical Psychology, he’s in process of transitioning his clinical license from Montana to Texas. He’s been in mental health, counseling, teaching, and coaching for 18 years. He’s taught psychology at the college level and guest taught at the high school level.
In 2004, Michael sustained an ACL & meniscus tear while playing football. He has an understanding of what it means to recover physically, emotionally, and mentally. After his recovery, he continued to run several marathons in 2006 and 2007.
While in private practice in Montana, he worked as a performance coach and clinician with professional bull riders, u19 downhill skiers, baseball coaches, and collegiate football players.
He has a love for helping athletes reach their competitive goals while learning how to grow in understanding of their mind and body.
He attended Fuller Seminary, completing an MA in Theology while pursuing the Navy Chaplain Corps. However, the ACL and meniscus injury interrupted this pursuit. It was during this process that he increased his understanding of resilience, focus, and, reframing opportunity.
He’s traveled to Asia, Africa, Central America, and the Middle East as a student. During these trips, he witnessed how sports were a common language. Sports such as soccer and basketball were often how friendships were created. Attending a soccer match in Tel Aviv, Israel was an awesome highlight during these adventures!
Other Services We Provide
Leaving Home-Transitioning In Sports-Career Ending-Retiring
We offer guidance for athletes and their families as they work their way through the sometimes difficult transition from high school to college, and college to professional sports. Teaching valuable life skills that assist the student/athlete as they face the social, academic, athletic, financial, and geographic changes help with the transition of leaving home and heading off to college or entering the complex world of professional sports. Athletes learn to live authentically and show up empowered. We also help family members process the changes their family is going through as their athletes prepares to leave home or enter professional sports.
Getting Ready for the NFL, MLB or the NBA?
We help college football and basketball players prepare for the rigorous NFL and NBA Combines and draft by teaching them how to maximize their results across the board, interview with key NFL and NBA personnel, show up authentically and perform at their best. Once in the league, we help them manage the difficult transitional process of becoming a pro and everything they face in this process.
We also work with athletes new to minor league baseball as they leave home or college. For many the transitions that professional baseball players face are difficult. Learning how to balance time, the demands of the game, pressure to perform, learning how to live on their own, and manage new relationships are keys to performing at a high level.
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