Set up by former Arsenal and England football captain Tony Adams, Sporting Chance provides support to current and former professional athletes for a wide variety of mental and emotional health problems.
Formed in September 2000, the charity provides current and retired athletes with education and training tools as well as one to one counselling (for any emotional or mental health issue) in the residential clinic set up specifically to treat addictive disorders.
[1][2][3] Sporting Chance offers access to a national network of therapists and counsellors, all are vetted as to their qualification, specialism, place of practice, that they are suitably insured, that they maintain personal supervision and of course, their geography.
Sporting Chance’s diligence process mirrors that of the BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists) and the UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy).
These include general mental wellbeing in sports, strategies for transition periods in an athlete's career, building emotional resilience, understanding the effects The patrons include ex-Sports Minister Kate Hoey, former professional footballer Lee Dixon, Tony Smith, Irish Jockey Sir A.P McCoy, athlete Dame Kelly Holmes and musician Sir Elton John.