Joan Steidinger, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC)@Emeritus administered by the Association of Applied Sports Psychology ,(AASP) previously listed on the United States Olympic Committee’s Registry of Sport Psychology, and  a Fellow for AASP.  She has written columns online for PsychologyToday.com and SFGate.com about sports. She has worked as a clinical & sports psychologist for close to 30 years with offices in Mill Valley and San Francisco.  Two of her particular interests are focused on women’s issues and sports psychology. Her primary areas of expertise include performance and sport psychology, life transitions, depression, anxiety, dual diagnosis, PTSD, addiction, public safety personnel (police & fire personnel), and women’s issues.  She has numerous speaking credits to her name in the public and private sector, including a couple of years speaking at the Western States 100 mile Endurance Race training camp, and at the San Francisco Commonwealth Club. In May 2018, she spoke at the International Working Group on Women and Sport’s Conference in Botswana on “Sisterhood in Sports.” Teaching for many years, she taught Exercise and Sport psychology at San Jose State University, SFSU and UC Berkeley Extension.  In the 1990s, she was an elite and pioneering ultra runner.  Participating on the Tamalpa Women’s First Ultra Racing Team, she placed 1st in the Pacific Region and 3rd in the Open Division in the first Pacific region Ultra Grand Prix Series. In 2014, she published her first book, “Sisterhood in Sports:  How female athletes collaborate and compete.”  This book won five literary awards, including Foreword Reviews IndieFab contest.  In the Women’s Studies category, the book received an Honorable Mention. The other awards consisted of a first place winner in the sport category of the Beverly Hills International Book Awards, International Book Awards, and National Indie Excellence Awards.  She also won a gold medal in the women’s category of Reader’s Favorite Awards. She published her second book about the inequality of female athletes in sports, titled “Stand Up and Shout Out:  Women’s fight for equal pay, equal rights, and equal opportunities in sports.” in the Sports and Rec category in March 2020.You will see her running and hiking the trails of Mt. Tam in Mill Valley, California where she lives with her husband, JP, and two Goldie dogs, Jesse and Dakota