About Us
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The Confidence Effect is a London based and worldwide operating consultancy run by Chantal Duarte. Chantal is an experienced sport and performance psychology specialist who has worked with a wide range of professional athletes, individuals, and organisations in a variety of elite sport and high-performance settings across the globe.
Chantal is registered with The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) and is fully accredited to work in the domain of psychology support. Throughout her career, she has worked as a practitioner for the Women’s Tennis Association, which involved providing psychological performance and wellbeing support to the professional female tennis players on the international tour. Chantal has also worked for Leicester City Women's Football Club which included providing their first team support in leadership, communication, confidence, concentration, and resilience to enhance player performance. Within her role as Performance Psychology Lead on the Professional Footballers’ Association Injury Rehabilitation Programme, she also provided psychological support to male and female professional players returning to play from injury, and she has delivered consultancy services for British Athletics, British Weightlifting, England Hockey and England Netball on their talent development programmes.
She is a professional ambassador and confidence specialist for worldwide Mental Health App Informed Minds, and has provided psychology support to charitable organisations such as international tennis charity Serving Up Hope and Track Academy. In addition, she has delivered performance psychology support in the business sector including working within the healthcare, education, IT, food, and charity industries, and has a passion for enhancing people’s confidence and performance in their working environments and personal lives.
Chantal has experience in many differing facets of the high-performance world including providing sport and performance psychology services to international athletes, organisations and businesses, athlete mentoring development, international event delivery at Wimbledon and The China Open, coaching, and as a former national tennis player herself. This experience has enabled her to gain an in-depth understanding and appreciation of the demands of high-performance environments which allows her work to be authentic and highly effective.