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), WorkiKate 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.