An athlete’s perspective and a professional background
Braden is a licensed marriage and family therapist who works with athletes on mental health and mental performance. He earned a bachelor’s degree at BYU, a master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy at Utah State University, and a PhD in Medical Family Therapy at East Carolina University in 2019. Before returning to BYU, he directed mental performance and counseling services for IUPUI Athletics.
He also knows sport from inside a team and from the sidelines as a parent. Braden is the parent of a volleyball player and a golfer. He played football at BYU and later signed with the St. Louis Rams. That family and athletic perspective sits alongside his professional work with athletes, coaches and staff. His BYU biography provides more detail about his education and career.
A human first approach to performance
Across the training materials Braden supplied for Reset, one idea keeps returning: an athlete is a person before they are a result. A difficult thought, a nervous moment or a mistake does not make someone a failed athlete.
His Triple A Mindset introduces awareness, acceptance and action. In everyday language, that means noticing what is happening, making room for a feeling without treating it as an order, and choosing what to do next. Reset’s examples bring those concepts into familiar practice and competition situations.
The focus is practical. An athlete should leave a lesson understanding what they can try, rather than carrying another instruction to feel perfect.
How his materials appear in this library
Selected pages draw on Braden’s original curriculum map, youth mental-game reminders, sport presentations and visualization materials. Those articles name the source training and identify the Reset editorial adaptation. The sport examples and short teaching explanations are written to make one concept accessible.
The library gives a glimpse of a skill. It does not reproduce the full training scripts or replace guided practice. Articles about choosing an app, evaluating features or supporting an athlete may use other sources and carry the Reset editorial team byline.
Bring the idea into your own sport
A swimmer waiting for a race, a defender responding after a mistake and a young athlete entering their first tournament face different tasks. Their next useful action should reflect that difference. Reset is being built to connect mental skills with the moments athletes actually encounter.
Explore an idea in the library, then join first access to practice through Reset’s short, personalized app sessions. Athletes under 18 need permission from a parent or guardian. Reset offers mental performance practice, not clinical care.