Billy Bean, PhD
Billy is a co-founder of KBMP serving the Lehigh Valley in-person and all 50 states via telehealth. Billy prioritizes promoting athlete autonomy in his work, empowering individuals to play an active role in increasing understanding of themselves and their responses to stress and anxiety impacting performance and enjoyment of sport. He enjoys helping athletes understand that challenging thoughts and emotions are human, not a problem to be fixed, and that together they can create new, adaptable ways of interacting with stress, challenges, and fear.
Billy brings a breadth of experience to his work having provided sport psychology services to athletes competing in both individual and team sports in the NCAA including golf, tennis, T&F, cross country, basketball, and baseball.
Credentials
Billy earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Kinesiology at SUNY Brockport before going on to earn a master’s degree in Sport & Exercise Psychology at Georgia Southern University. During his two years there, he engaged in rigorous sport psychology training, providing individual and group services to numerous Division I teams as they navigated the stress and diverse challenges of the pandemic. He also conducted research examining the impact of visualization on reaction time among student-athletes.
Billy went on to complete a doctoral degree in Sport Psychology at Florida State University, during which he also completed a second master’s degree in Measurement & Statistics and a certificate in College Teaching. His interdisciplinary training informs an approach to sport psychology grounded in a deep understanding of learning and change.
While at Florida State University, Billy completed two large-scale research projects examining technology use (biofeedback, teleconsultation) in sport psychology and contributed to several book chapters and research articles in the field of sport psychology on biofeedback and expertise in sport. He also pursued additional applied sport psychology training for two years, working with Division I athletes from numerous sports.
Billy has significant teaching experience in sport psychology, serving as an instructor of sport psychology courses at Springfield College for two years and in his current role as a professor at DeSales University, where he also provides sport psychology services.
KB Mental Performance consultants are not only applied practitioners, they are researchers within the field.
Conducting research to inform our work and contribute to the development of the field of sport psychology is a key goal of KB Mental Performance. Billy currently conducts research on the use of biofeedback in applied sport psychology and the education and training needed to effectively provide mental performance services. Billy has presented his research at numerous local and national conferences.