Sharon A. Chirban PhD, Founder
Sharon created Amplify Wellness + Performance in 2000 to bring together her clinical psychology specialties of working with high performance athletes and executives, eating disorders and general mental health. Amplify Wellness + Performance applies a holistic and team approach to client relationships. Sharon has assembled a talented group of clinical and sport psychologists, nutrition experts and wellness coaches to ensure clients the best results.
Sharon has 25 years of clinical psychology expertise, including work at Harvard Medical School, Boston Ballet, NBA Players Association, Harvard Track and Field, Boston Children’s Hospital and private practice. In her work as a trained sport psychologist at Boston Children’s Hospital Division of Sport Medicine, Sharon has treated many athletes with post-concussion syndrome, ACL injuries, post-surgical rehabilitation cases and athletic career transitions. She addresses the psychological needs of the whole athlete, including recruiting issues, concerns around red-shirting, self-management within team, coaching relationships, injury recovery, as well as the inevitable transition away from competitive sports or performance.
Sharon also specializes in treating clinical eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia and binge eating) and in partnership with treatment facilities, builds recovery programs to confront self-sabotaging behaviors that impede healthy relationships and a happy, wholesome life. Many of her patients are elite and high-level athletes and dancers, who also seek her out for her eating disorder expertise.
Sharon enjoys working as an external coach with c-level executives on work/life balance, confidence, setback/failure recovery, risk-taking, and relationship management in and out of the office. She is motivated by her successes in helping people really change and helps her clients and patients realize that what seemed impossible, is absolutely possible.