Mental techniques & professional reflection
Mental Training
What is Mental Training?
- What is Mental Training for?
- Training mental skills for healthy people
- Is Mental Training legally regulated?
- The term is not protected; often practised via Lebens- und Sozialberatung or as a free offer.
- Does Mental Training treat illnesses?
- No, training for healthy people, not treatment
Mental training is training, not a counselling or treatment offer. Just as physical training shapes the body, mental training deliberately practises specific mental skills.
What is trained
- concentration and focus
- inner images and visualisation
- dealing with tension and nervousness
- goal work and building routines
The work uses exercises, repetition and concrete techniques, mostly around performance in sport, work, exams or on stage.
The difference to counselling
It is explicitly not about working through problems, resolving conflicts or talking about burdensome topics and your life story. That is exactly the difference to counselling (LSB) and to therapy.
The term is not protected and the range is wide. Some methods are well researched, for example from sports psychology; other offers drift towards esoterics. Mental training replaces no therapy and is not meant for mental illness.
What is allowed
- Train concentration, goal work and handling pressure
- Accompany sport, work and exams
- Build routines and mental strategies
Where are the limits?
- No treatment of mental illness
- No diagnosis, no therapy
- Refers to therapy or medicine when clinical relevance appears
How to recognise quality
- A credible, serious training background
- Methods connected to sports or psychology research
- A clear line against healing promises and esoterics
- Refers to therapy or medicine in case of illness
How it works
- First sessionclarify goal and starting point
- Trainingbuild exercises and strategies
- Applicationuse them in everyday life or competition
- Endingsecure the progress