John Bowman, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and sport psychology consultant who has served on the Graduate Faculty at Stony Brook University since 1980, teaching Psychology of Sport and Performance. He is board certified in clinical hypnotherapy and currently serves as the Sports Psychology Consultant to Stony Brook University's Department of Athletics, providing performance enhancement services to athletes, coaches, and teams.
In 1981, Dr. Bowman founded the Mind Plus Muscle Institute for Applied Sport Psychology, where he develops mindfulness-based mental training and sport hypnosis programs for athletes from youth leagues to Olympic level. He is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant-Emeritus with the Association of Applied Sport Psychology and an active member of the United States Olympic Committee Sport Psychology Registry, working with Olympic development programs in the northeastern United States.