Sarah Cecil is a Chartered Sports Psychologist and has worked for the English Institute of Sport (EIS) since 2005. She has worked extensively across a wide range of sports across four Olympic cycles including athletics, canoeing, fencing, rugby and shooting. She has worked with Olympic, Paralympics, World and European medalists. Sarah spends part of her week at the Team GB Intensive Rehabilitation Unit at Bisham Abbey where she provides cutting edge psychological support for injured athletes. She has co-written and delivered on the UK Sport Elite Coach Apprentice Programme since 2012. She has mentored and technically developed 10 sport psychologists within the EIS and is currently supervising 5 trainee sport psychologists for their BPS Stage 2. Within her EIS role she provides both formal and informal mentorship to a range of multidisciplinary staff as well as running bespoke programmes on influencing, feedback and performance under pressure. Alongside this she has written an innovative transition program for Help for Heroes. Sarah is the EIS lead on Mental Health and has presented and written internationally on the EIS approach Sarah uses the expertise she has to enable athletes to deliver under pressure and to support coaches and performance staff to fulfil their potential.
