Performance Psychologist and General Manager

David Barracosa is a fully registered psychologist with APHRA who completed his four-year undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Wollongong in 2011 with honours. He has always had a genuine passion and motivation for sport and, during his studies, identified a pathway that would allow him to apply this to his work in assisting athletes and coaches with the mental side of performance.

Immediately upon graduation, David secured a position at Condor Performance as a provisional psychologist and, since then, has grown into one of the most experienced Performance Psychologists within our organisation and is our current General Manager. Over the last decade, he has worked with hundreds of sporting and performance clients, allowing him to hone his skills and become one of Condor Performance’s most valued team members and most sought-after psychologists in the industry.

The breadth and depth of David’s sporting knowledge are exceptional. Quite simply, he’s an “outlier” who knows as much, if not more, about almost every major sport as those who play and coach it. He can communicate with his sporting clients on their terms and put rapport before psychobabble. This sporting knowledge, along with David’s preference to apply a solutions-focused approach to his work with clients, means that there is a consistent effort to create positive change by introducing and strengthening practical skills relevant to that particular client, their sport and their unique challenges.