Mental Performance Coaching
Your fitness is there.
Let's train what's between your ears.
Mental performance coaching for athletes who want to compete at their edge — with clarity, composure, and the psychological tools to stay there.
You're fit enough.
So why does your mind bail first?
You've done the training. You know what your body is capable of. But something happens between the start line and the moment it gets hard — the mental game breaks down. The doubt moves in. The panic at mile 70. The spiral when the plan falls apart. The inability to find flow when it matters most.
Fitness gets you to the wall. Mental performance is what gets you through it.
You perform better in training than in races — and you don't know why
High-stakes moments bring anxiety, not focus
When things go wrong mid-race, you spiral instead of adapt
You can't find flow — you're grinding where you want to be gliding
Confidence feels fragile, one bad workout away from collapse
You've hit your physical ceiling — the next gains are mental
The pain cave has a mental lock. Mental performance training is the key."
Mental performance isn't positive thinking. It's psychological training — specific, practiced, and built for the moments that count.
DEVELOP COMPOSURE UNDER PRESSURE
We'll train the ability to stay grounded when the race is blowing up — using ACT-based defusion, mindfulness, and attention-control skills that work in the real conditions of competition.
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BUILD GENUINE DURABLE CONFIDENCE
Not the kind that depends on perfect conditions or recent results. We'll build confidence from values and commitment — the kind that shows up even on the days when your legs don't.
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APPROACH THE PAIN CAVE DIFFERENTLY
ACT teaches you to approach discomfort with curiosity instead of resistance. Suffering in an ultra or at altitude is inevitable — your relationship with it doesn't have to be a fight.
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CREATE YOUR PRE-COMPETITION MENTAL PROCESS
We'll build a personalized mental performance routine — race-day prep, focus cues, mid-race reset strategies — so you arrive at the start line ready, not hoping.
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ABOUT THE APPROACH
🧭 Unlike traditional sport psychology that focuses on eliminating doubt or anxiety, ACT teaches you to compete with them — moving toward your goals even when the mental weather is bad. This is psychological flexibility in action, and it's what separates athletes who perform in the hard moments from those who don't.
Most therapists who work with athletes come from clinical practice and add sport on the side. This practice was built the other way around.
DUAL DEGREES
Social Work & Applied Sport Psychology
Two disciplines that most practitioners choose between. The clinical depth of social work combined with the performance science of applied sport psychology — both fully trained, both fully present in this work.
CERTIFIED
Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC)
The CMPC is the field's gold standard certification — earned through advanced coursework, mentored hours, and rigorous examination. It means this isn't supplemental. Mental performance is the specialization.
THE DIFFERENCE
A specialist, not a generalist who dabbles
Anyone can say they work with athletes. Very few have the training to hold both the clinical and the performance sides at once — and to know which one is needed in the room.
Available to athletes throughout the US.
Mental performance coaching is available online to athletes 17+ across the US. Free 15-minute consultation to see if we're a good fit and talk through what you're working toward.
