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Principal Sport Psychologist
Dr. Gallenberg is a strong fit for:
His work is especially valuable where physical performance and psychological awareness intersect.
Dr. Gallenberg works with athletes in high-intensity environments where composure and execution are critical.
He helps athletes improve awareness, coordination, and control through performance psychology.
He works across disciplines including combat sports and performance arts.
His work integrates physical performance with psychological awareness.
CERTIFICATIONS Licensed Psychologist - Minnesota Board of Psychology
Certified Mental Performance Consultant
USA Boxing Coach Certification
Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT), PSYPACT Commission
EDUCATION Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology – The University of Iowa
M.Sc. in Counseling Psychology – The University of Kansas
B.S. in Psychology – Drake University
Doctoral Internship – Illinois State University Student Counseling Services
Acceptance-Commitment Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Confidence, Mental Resilience, Focus, Combat Sports Athletes, Collegiate and Professional Athletes, Musicians
Dr. Gallenberg uses an integrative approach combining psychology and movement.
His approach emphasizes:
Dr. Gallenberg has led leadership development workshops focused on motivation, mental skill development, and resilience training with organizations including the Minnesota Twins, Minnesota Timberwolves, University of Minnesota, Macalester College, and USA Olympic Curling. His work has also included mental performance draft profiling for NBA, MLB, and NFL organizations.
Dr. Gallenberg also specializes as a mental skills coach for professional boxers and MMA fighters across various organizations. He currently serves as a sport and performance psychologist for the Minnesota Timberwolves and the University of Minnesota Athletics Department.
Beyond traditional athletics, Dr. Gallenberg has brought his mental performance expertise into the performing arts. On the ensemble side, he works with high school and collegiate marching bands nationwide. For individuals, he offers mental skills coaching to orchestral musicians. He also supports ballroom dance competitors, helping them enhance both their partnership synergy and overall floor performance.
Adam Gallenberg, Ph.D., LP is a licensed psychologist and sport and performance consultant. Adam’s path into sport psychology was an innovative one. While completing his doctorate from the University of Iowa, Adam was offering counseling and career services to students, veterans, athletes, and the general adult population. Simultaneously, he was also coaching professional and amateur boxers while competing in the amateurs himself.
In addition to his boxing background, Adam also competed at the national level in ballroom and Latin dancing, identifying the mental components of team development and body awareness. He combined his passions for the sport of boxing and ballroom dancing with his knowledge of exercise science and psychology, noting the benefits of exercise to addressing mental wellness concerns. This insight inspired a shift from traditional counseling psychology into the psychology of performance, where his research focused on the relationship between high intensity exercise and help-seeking attitudes, and his early client work steered toward combat sport athletes.
Adam joined Premier Sport Psychology in 2019, where he continues to work with athletes across all ages and sports and continues to focus on addressing mental wellness as a spectrum of development. His approach to mental performance highlights the importance of resilience training, bringing a “fighter’s mindset” for managing adversity to performers of all disciplines. From the golf course to the swimming pool, the fighter’s mindset often becomes the game changer to unlock one’s peak performance when it is desired the most.
When not working at Premier, Adam continues to put the work elsewhere – balancing his time between the boxing gym, where he still coaches and trains regularly, and spending time with his family.
Dr. Gallenberg regularly presents on topics including:
For speaking inquiries, please contact Premier Sport Psychology.
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