Faculty & Staff

Dr. Julie L. Wiernik is a Licensed Clinical Sport and Performance Psychologist and owner of the Texas Center for Sport Psychology.  Her practice is centrally located in Castle Hills. She grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where she played multiple sports during her childhood.  During her high school years, she competed on two state championship teams in both volleyball and basketball during her junior year and played 4 years as a varsity softball starter.  Her softball talent earned her an athletic scholarship to play NCAA softball at the University of North Florida where she was a four-year starter primarily as a shortstop.  During her time at UNF, Dr. Wiernik obtained leadership awards, and scholarships, and was nominated for the prestigious Rhodes Scholar award based on excellence in academics and athletics.  Her love and passion of sports helped inspire her to eventually choose a career as a clinical sport, and performance psychologist.  In college, she went on to earn All-Conference and All-Region honors as a shortstop while becoming an Academic All-American and graduating with Magna Cum Laude honors with a major in physical/health education and psychology.  Additionally, Dr. Wiernik played competitive flag football competing as the quarterback at the University of North Florida.  In 1996, her team from UNF played in the Nike Flag Football Championships in New Orleans where she earned All-America honors as the best female quarterback in the country.  During the latter part of her undergraduate education and athletic career, Dr. Wiernik learned the importance of mental toughness as a softball player and how important the mental game is for truly being a top performer.  This epiphany led her to go into sports psychology and inspired her vision to help all athletes and performers reach their potential. She pursued a graduate degree and then achieved her doctorate degree in clinical psychology.  Dr. Wiernik trained in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area working with diverse populations in forensic, hospital, university, and outpatient mental health settings.  Her experience in the field of mental health is vast and contributes to her specialty which now consists of clinical sport, performance, and health psychology.  Dr. Wiernik works with adolescents, adults, and families.  As a sport and performance psychologist, she helps all types of youth and professional athletes and performers execute at their highest level through mental skills training.  There are very few sports performance consultants who have training both in clinical psychology and performance enhancement.  Dr. Wiernik is also a certified consultant with the Association of Applied Sport Psychology (AASP), the only credentialed worldwide certification program for sport psychology consultants.  Also, Dr. Wiernik is a member of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) Sport Psychology and Mental Training Registry.  This extensive training gives Dr. Wiernik a vast array of tools and expertise that can help athletes and performers with issues relating not to just performance, such as coping with injury, career transitions, family concerns/communication, and athlete/personal identity development.