About Amplify Wellness + Performance
Improving the lives of high-performance people
Most people who find me have already tried being tougher, working harder, and pushing through. They’re not here because they lack discipline. They’re here because something isn’t working — and they can’t quite name what it is.
That’s where I start.
I’m a clinical psychologist and executive coach. I work with high performers of every kind — founders, executives, athletes, and individuals navigating eating disorders — helping them understand not just how to perform, but what their performance is costing them, protecting them from, and trying to say.
Established in 2000
I founded Amplify Wellness + Performance in 2000 because the people I work with deserve a clinician who understands their world from the inside. Not someone who pathologizes ambition. Not someone who confuses high functioning with being fine. Someone who can sit with the complexity of a person who is succeeding publicly and struggling privately — and help them make sense of what’s underneath.
Sharon Chirban, PhD, CMPC
Clinical Sport Psychologist
Executive Coach
Founder, Amplify Wellness + Performance
Boston, MA — In-Person and Virtual
How I Work
The people I see are used to being the ones who hold it together. The CEO who can’t let her board see uncertainty. The athlete who performs beautifully and falls apart in the car afterward. The founder whose company is scaling and whose marriage is cracking under the weight of it. They don’t need a cheerleader. They need someone who can see the pattern they can’t.
My work lives at the intersection of clinical psychology and performance. I treat anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and relationship issues — but always in the context of a life where the stakes are high and the margin for vulnerability feels impossibly thin. I help people build the internal structures that let them perform sustainably, without sacrificing the relationships and the health that make performance worth anything.
My clinical background includes Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston Ballet, the NBA Players Association, and the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee. I’ve worked with athletes through concussions, ACL recoveries, career-ending injuries, and the identity crises that follow. I’ve coached founders through the transition from startup chaos to organizational scale. I’ve treated eating disorders in dancers, runners, and executives who nobody would ever suspect were struggling.
What connects all of this work is one belief: the thing that looks like the problem is almost never the real problem. The performance block, the burnout, the relationship that’s falling apart — those are signals. My job is to help you hear what they’re actually saying.
Areas of Focus
- Performance anxiety and mental blocks
- Eating disorders in athletes and high performers
- Executive coaching for founder-led companies
- Athlete transition and identity
- Injury rehabilitation psychology
- Depression, anxiety, and relationship issues
- Maternal mental health
- Leadership development and organizational dynamics
The Amplify Network
Not every person who reaches out is the right fit for my direct practice — and that matters to me. Over three decades, I’ve built relationships with a small number of exceptional clinicians who I trust completely. The Amplify Network makes those relationships available to you. Every member is someone I know, I’ve worked alongside, and I’d refer my own family to.