About
SPC LLC is a consulting business that helps individuals and teams mentally and emotionally thrive under pressure. SPC LLC provides virtual private sessions and group/team workshops to help athletes, coaches, and teams develop key psychological skills needed to perform when it matters most.
Dr. Savvy Ferstle, PsyD & CPC
Founder of SPC LLC, Mental Performance Consultant
Background
Dr. Savvy Ferstle, PsyD, CPC, is a mental performance consultant and founder of Savvy Performance Consulting (SPC) LLC, a private practice that delivers consulting services that prepare high-performing individuals and teams to excel on big stages while prioritizing emotional well-being. Savvy is a doctor in sport and performance psychology and utilizes evidence-based practices to deliver high-quality psychological skills training with athletes. During her doctoral program, she also completed extensive research in emotional intelligence and well-being in female sports. Her advanced degree in industrial-organizational psychology and experience working for corporate teams allow her to offer expertise in leadership, group dynamics, and team-building to teams and organizations.
Savvy has worked with many softball organizations over the past seven years, from high school teams, travel ball clubs, and D1 college teams. She served as the Director of Leadership and Wellness at Oakland University, helping the women’s softball team enhance their mental game throughout their 2024 season.
In addition to offering mental performance services, Savvy also gives softball lessons in the southeast region of Michigan. She is also a crisis counselor for the largest suicide prevention hotline for LGBTQ+ youth.
Softball Background
Savvy is a former NCAA Division 1 softball player and coach, allowing her to apply a holistic approach to mental performance. Her softball career began in Temecula, CA, playing for some of the greatest coaches in Southern California. She played for Dave Mercado at Great Oak High School, earning offensive MVP as a sophomore (2012) and junior (2013), and team MVP as a senior (2014). She was also a 2x 1st team all-conference player, 4x recipient of academic and involvement awards, and helped her team become league co-champions in 2013. She played for highly competitive travel ball teams such as Cal Lite (Pam Newton) and Firecrackers (Pasco/Blanco/Gallego), and helped her team earn a PGF national berth with the Firecrackers. Savvy played with teammates that committed to various college programs such a UCLA, UofA, Oregon, Arkansas, Maryland, Ole Miss, Nebraska, and Boston.
Savvy earned a full-ride scholarship to play at the University of Detroit Mercy. She was a 4 year starter and team captain her junior and senior year. A two-time All-Horizon League Second Team selection, Ferstle ended her career as the school record holder with 113 RBI, third in school history with 24 home runs, fourth with 170 hits and 11th with a .462 slugging percentage.
She was a career .296 hitter and also had 63 runs scored and 23 doubles. As a senior, she led the team in hitting (.348), slugging percentage (.589), home runs (7), and was second in RBI (24). Her seven homers that season tied her career-high with the seven she hit as a junior and that mark is tied for 10th in the school record book.
Off the field, she was a four-time member of the Detroit Mercy Athletic Director's Honor Roll, a three-time member of the Horizon League Fall and Spring Academic Honor Roll and a two-time selection to the Horizon League All-Academic Team.
Philosophy
“We spend so much time working on the physical part of sport and we are constantly looking for that competitive edge. What distinguishes a good player from a great player is how well they manage failure. The quicker a performer can recover emotionally from setbacks, the better position they will be in the next opportunity they get. I help athletes build the necessary tools to enhance their confidence, attention, motivation, resilience, productivity, and emotional well-being. Failure in sport and life is inevitable, which is why I focus on consistency, not perfection.”
“I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall”
— Serena Williams
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