Mental Performance Coaching
Confidence, focus, and composure are trainable skills.
AEH Performance Coaching helps athletes, students, and performers build the mental game that lets their physical and technical preparation actually show up when it counts, in competition, in exams, and under pressure.
The basics
What is mental performance coaching?
Think of it as strength and conditioning for the brain. We build a mental toolbox so an athlete can handle whatever adversity or pressure they're facing, the same way conditioning builds the physical capacity to handle a season.
Not just for when things go wrong
A common surprise: this work isn't only for athletes in a slump. Mental skills can always be trained. The best performers show up for this work even when they're already playing at their best.
A core mental skill
Control the controllables.
Things you can control
Yourself: your effort, your attitude, your mindset, and the perspective you choose to bring.
Things you can't control
Everything else: the refs, the outcome, what other people think, and what tomorrow brings.
How the work holds together
Stay true…
Trust the process
Trust
Trust yourself, the plan, and the work it takes to get there.
Rooted in your values
Rooted
Your values and beliefs are the foundation everything else stands on.
Understand yourself and others
Understand
Know your own patterns under pressure, and read the people around you.
Effort over excuses
Effort
Show up and do the work, especially on the days you don't feel like it.
About the coach
- MSc, Sport & Exercise Psychology — Loughborough University
- BSc, Sport & Exercise Science — York St John University
- Working toward CMPC certification through AASP
- Semi-professional soccer player, in the UK and now the US
- Based in Napa, CA
Who this is for
One approach, built for anyone whose performance depends on their head as much as their skill.
Youth & adolescent athletes
One-on-one coaching for competitive and travel-level athletes ages 14 and up, across any sport. Younger athletes build the same foundation through group workshops.
Find out moreOrganizations & facilities
Team-wide mental skills programming and staff workshops for youth sports organizations and training facilities.
Find out moreCollege students & professionals
Now working with college athletes and students in a performance-coaching capacity. Coming soon: professionals in law, medicine, sales, and business.
Find out moreCurrently accepting new individual and club clients.
Sessions are available in person in the Napa and North Bay area, with virtual options for the right fit.