Book Private Mental-performance Lessons with Coach Emma

I’m Emma, a former soccer player and classically trained and stage performing actress turned Mental Performance Coach and Clinical Hypnotherapist. I love helping athletes stop overthinking, trust themselves, and perform freely: both in and out of performance. I work with athletes from elite juniors to professionals across multiple sports, blending practical mental skills training with subconscious performance work. I’m passionate about sports, the arts, truly all things live performance! Along with personal development, nature, travel, and finding joy in the everyday. At the root of all of my work is helping you build such a solid sense of self that you know you can handle anything that comes your way in life.

I help you improve your game by addressing both the conscious and subconscious aspects of your performance. Your mindset is essential to your success: 80% of winning happens in your mind. I work beyond surface-level strategies, helping you uncover and shift deep beliefs and identity patterns that might be holding you back. Your subconscious mind drives 95% of how you show up, often creating invisible blocks. For example, always losing to the same opponent, or struggling to hit a certain shot. I help you clear those blocks out. Along with helping you stop overthinking, build unshakable confidence, manage your nerves and performance anxiety, and move through your specific blocks, both in our sessions and beyond with custom mindset recordings I make you, tailored to you specifically. My goal is to provide a safe, non-judgmental space where you can grow: in your sport, your mindset, and your identity as a competitor.

Most sessions are one hour, though sometimes we do two-hour sessions for deeper work. In a one-hour session, we focus on conscious mindset coaching: identifying your mental blocks and limiting beliefs, improving self-talk, learning techniques to reset and refocus, manage performance anxiety and nerves, regulate emotions, and practice mental and emotional rehearsal, relaxation techniques, and visualization.

Longer sessions allow us to go deeper, clearing and rewiring subconscious patterns that may be holding you back. Every session combines conscious and subconscious work, and I provide customized performance recordings for you to use between sessions: reinforcing growth, confidence, and consistency long after our time together.

I’ve been fortunate to learn from incredible mentors who shaped me in many stages of my life and career. My acting coach from Juilliard taught me discipline, presence, and how to trust myself: lessons that I bring with my for my own clients and their high-stakes performances. My business coach challenged me to go for my dreams on my own terms, helping me build the confidence, resilience, and clarity to create my own path. Both taught me the power of trust, focus, and believing in myself — lessons I now pass on to my own clients.

I care deeply about the human behind the athlete. I provide a safe, non-judgmental space where my clients can grow, make mistakes, and build confidence without pressure of needing to show up perfectly with me. I welcome the raw, messy side of being human and growing!

When I was a teenager playing soccer, I struggled with my own mental health challenges and worked my way through depression, so I understand what it’s like to struggle, and I know what it takes to come out the other side and build unshakable self-worth. My own experience as a performer allows me to relate to what my clients go through, and I combine that with my expertise as a mental performance coach to harness the power of the mind and imagination for peak performance, so my sessions, tools, and exercises are engaging and fun too! I give my clients practical skills while also creating enjoyable, meaningful experiences.

I’m approachable, honest, supportive, and collaborative. I meet my clients where they are, supporting where they're at, and lovingly challenging them to get to where they desire. I prioritize psychological safety, open communication, and long-term growth, so parents can feel confident that their children are learning skills that last.

I’m also passionate about sports, performance, and personal development, and I love helping athletes not only improve their game but build resilience, clarity, and belief in themselves that carries into all areas of life.