Dr. Brandonn Harris

Biography

Dr. Brandonn Harris is in his 13th year at Georgia Southern University where he currently serves as a Professor of Sport and Exercise Psychology and the Graduate Program Director in the Department of Health Sciences and Kinesiology. He is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC), a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), a National Certified Counselor (NCC), is listed on the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s (USOPC) Sport Psychology Registry and Mental Health Registry, and was named a Fellow for the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) in 2022. Brandonn is a founding member of the Georgia Southern Athletics Mental Performance Team, which is comprised of practitioners and administrators in sports medicine, counseling services, and sport psychology with the goal of providing comprehensive, holistic, and collaborative mental health and optimal mental training services to student-athletes and athletic department stakeholders. At Georgia Southern, he also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of ethical issues in sport psychology, psychological aspects of peak performance, sport and exercise psychology interventions, team dynamics in sport, and supervised graduate students’ practica and internships in sport and exercise psychology. Brandonn enjoys maintaining a very active involvement in various sport psychology professional communities. Most recently, he was appointed to a 4-year term as the mental health and sport psychology exp