Tara Costello-Ledwell has devoted her life and career to the development knowledge and application of mindfulness, mental skills and behavioral habits for peak performance and meaningful living. Drawing on a breadth of personal and work experiences as well as a variety of psychological frameworks. Foundationally, Tara’s consulting stems largely from fields of positive psychology, performance psychology, modern neuro-science of mindfulness, equine facilitated learning, and experiential/ adventure based personal growth approaches.
Meet Tara Costello-Ledwell, MA, CSPA, Mental Performance Consultant
Tara lives with her comedic husband Patrick Ledwell and son Nathaniel in Rural PEI. She works with clients from across the country using distance-based communication and in-person services locally and through travel.
She's been an athlete herself, playing varsity and Canada Games Field Hockey, a marathon and long-distance runner, as well as competes in western-equestrian pursuits. She is a business owner, a teacher, a wife, a mother, and has a big love of animals. She supports professionals from variety of careers and athletes at many different levels. Clientele includes professionals in highly demanding careers; surgeons, veterinarians, lawyers as well as professional and amateur athletes and teams. These have included NHL/ AHL players, nationally ranked junior tennis athletes, Canadian Youth Olympic team members, Canadian and World Junior curling champions, various university teams and athletes, Special Olympics Canada National team program, plus other regionally and nationally successful athletes.
- Team member of Canadian Center for Mental Health and Sport
- Certified Mindfulness Teacher
- Accomplished facilitator in equine-therapy and equine assisted learning
Tara was the lead practitioner in a research project exploring the human-animal connections with veterans diagnosed with PTSD. Results are very promising in the proven psychological and physiological benefits of working with horses for mental health and well-being.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
• Registered member of the Canadian Sport Psychology Association
• BA (Psychology) University of Prince Edward Island
• MA (Human Kinetics – Mental Skills for Sport) University of Ottawa
. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Certification (Center for Mindfulness Studies)
• Specialized professional development in EAGALA Equine Therapy
• HeartMath Training (Cutting edge Heart-Brain based science)
• The Attentional & Interpersonal Style (TAIS) Inventory Advanced Certification (Measurement of the Building Blocks of Performance)
• Fundamentals of Natural Lifemanship (Equine assisted services based on the science of relationships)
• Level 1 T.R.E. (Tension /Trauma Releasing Exercises)
• Transformative Leadership/CAAWS Leadership Workshops
• Level 3 NCCP Coach
• P.N.L.P. (Certification in Neuro Linguistic Programming for Personal and Professional Excellence
SOME OF TARA'S CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
Canadian Center for Mental Health in Sport, Serene View Ranch Multidisciplinary Mental Health Clinic, PEI, Ontario and Quebec Golf Athletes, Tennis Canada (National Bank Open), World and National Junior Curling Champions, Strong Minds Clinical Director Special Olympics, National Tennis Champions, Canada Games Medalists, Athletes Reaching NCCA, Professional and Amateur Hockey Players, Equine Athletes, Top Archery Athletes & Medalists, Basketball Canada, AUS & University Teams and Athletes, Top Volleyball Athletes, Adventure Group Personal Growth and Leadership Facilitator, Canadian Soccer League, Lawyers, Veterinarians, Pharmacy Students preparing for Certification Exams, Special Olympics PEI, Special Olympics National Team, Junior Olympics Medalist, Maritime Junior Hockey, Quebec Major Junior Hockey, Gymnasts, Figure Skaters, CISSA Ontario and more!
“… sometimes making a small shift in perspective can make a huge difference in performance. I am so inspired to help athletes and professionals find these meaningful shifts.” Tara Costello