Dr. Darby Bonomi brings psychological guidance, strategies, and perspective for top performance and full enjoyment of your competitive experience.
For over 30 years, Dr. Bonomi has facilitated positive transformations in individuals of all ages. A practicing psychologist and consultant, Darby has worked with clients around the globe to achieve higher performance, greater well being and sustained happiness in their lives and work.
A firm believer that mental health is the foundation of overall wellness and the basis for high performance, her first priority is to ensure her clients have effective mental/emotional practices that are aligned with their vision. Darby is an expert at untangling the complicated situations that often arise when the demands of high performance interfere with optimal functioning.
Dr. Bonomi has written for Practical Horseman, USHJA InStride, Riding Magazine, Eventing and Jumper Nation, Flying Changes and Street to Stable, and has given sport psychology clinics all over the country. Currently she coaches clients of all ages, consults with entrepreneurs and mentors young professionals. She has been a California Licensed Psychologist (PSY 12925) since 1991.
Formerly on faculty at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and supervising faculty at UCSF, St. Mary’s and California Pacific Medical Center, Dr. Bonomi has extensive clinical and teaching experience. Having conducted her doctoral research on creativity and the adult life cycle, Dr. Bonomi also brings a developmental perspective to her current work.
Personally, Dr. Bonomi is an avid hiker, skier and an actively competing equestrian. She rides in the Amateur Owner Hunters and Equitation with her 3 horses. She has two adult daughters who came up the ranks of the equitation and jumpers and an adult son who played high school football. Married for 33 years, she and her husband live in Marin County with their two ragdoll cats and a corgi named Beezie.
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