Laura Vidaurreta

Highly proactive and self-motivated Sport and Exercise psychologist, researcher and professor, with a strong focus on developing analytical methods to enhance mental agility and optimize tactical responses in sports. Seven years of experience in high performance sports practice and five years of experience in clinical counseling and consultations to a cross-section of the public sportive and no sportive population.

● Strong background and hands-on experience in Sport Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology.

● Extensive experience in counseling sport training at the Cuban High Performance level teams, assisting coaches and athletes, education process in team development and the participation of psychology in paralympic physical activity.

● Extensive experience in clinical counseling and research processes in early childhood development, early intervention, psychotherapeutic care, and early childhood interventional psychodiagnosis.

● Teaching experience in disciplines-areas of high performance sport psychology, in articulation with education, human development, health promotion, theories and psychological systems, scientific methodology.

● Teaching experience in disciplines-areas of health psychology, organizational psychology, cognitive development, high-Performance sport psychology, in articulation with education, human development, and health promotion.

● Good interpersonal and communication skills, developed by working in collaborative environments and presenting research projects and results.

● Able to design, plan and execute experiments, critically analyze data and solve problems.

Project research manager Boston Children’s Hospital & Instituto PENSI - São Paulo, Brazil. Aug. 2022 - current

Project research manager Foundation of Scientific and Technological Ventures, Brasília, Brazil. Dec. 2021 - Oct 2023

Educational project coordinator Institute for the development of children and adolescents through education, culture and sport, Brasília, Brasil. Jan. 2019 - Out. 2020.

Sport Psychologist Sport Medicine Institute, Havana, Cuba. Sept. 2011 - Mar. 2016

Researcher Psychologist Sport Medicine Institute, Havana, Cuba. Mar. 2012 – Dec. 2015

PhD in Education Mar. 2015 - Feb. 2019. University of Brasilia, Brasília DF, Brazil.

PhD in Clinical and Cultural Psychology Mar. 2021 - current. University of Brasilia, Brasília DF, Brazil.

Master – Specialist in Sport Psychology Sept. 2011 - Aug. 2014. University of Physical Culture Sciences and Sport Manuel Fajardo, Havana, Cuba.

B.S Psychology Sept. 2006 – Aug. 2011. University of Havana, Havana, Cuba.