Kate F. Hays, Ph.D.,
C.Psych., has been practicing psychology since 1971, first in New Hampshire and
currently in Toronto. With a background in clinical psychology
(Ph.D. from Boston University), for the past 15 years she has developed
expertise in Sport Psychology, and more recently, the emerging field of
Performance Psychology.
Dr. Hays has lectured
widely throughout North America, England, and Australia. Her latest
book, with co-author Dr.
Charles Brown, is You're On! Consulting
for Peak Performance (APA 2004) will soon be supplemented with Performance
Psychology in Action (APA, 2009). Her combined interests in exercise and
psychotherapy have resulted in three books, Move
Your Body: Tone Your Mood (New
Harbinger Publications, 2002), Working
it Out: Using Exercise in Psychotherapy (APA, 1999) and edited Integrating Exercise, Sports,
Movement, and Mind: Therapeutic Unity (Haworth, 1998).
Dr. Hays is licensed as a psychologist in the state of New Hampshire and the
province of Ontario. She is a Fellow of the American
Psychological Association (Division
of Exercise & Sport Psychology, Division
of Psychotherapy, Division of
Independent Practice, and the
Society for the Psychology of Women), and a Fellow and Certified Consultant of the Association for the Advancement of
Applied Sport Psychology. She is listed in the U.S. Olympic Committee Sport
Psychology Registry.
Active in state, provincial, and national psychology and sport psychology
governance, Dr. Hays represents the province of Ontario on APA's Council of Representatives and is a member of APA's
Committee on Structure
and Function of Council. She chairs the international Sport Psychology Council and is Past-President of APA's Division of Exercise & Sport Psychology. In
2004, she received the Bruce Ogilvie Award for Professional Practice from APA's Division of Exercise & Sport
Psychology.
