Swimming at Your Best – Winning Mindset Coaching for Competitive Swimmers
Swimming at Your Best – Winning Mindset Coaching for Competitive Swimmers
You’ve trained hard and spent money on coaching & nutrition. You’ve spent hundreds of hours in the water and gym, swum countless kilometres. You’ve perfected your strokes in practice. Yet on competition day, doubts creep in:
“Will I be fast enough today?”
“What if I lose?”
“I’m so nervous”
“What if others are stronger than me?’
The result? Tension, nerves, and times that don’t reflect the effort and investment you’ve put in. These are the demons inside your head — and they’re stopping you from swimming at your best.
Why Mindset Matters in Competition
Physical training takes you only so far. Mental toughness and Emotional management — two of the key domains of resilience — are the disciplines that keep your mind calm, clear, and focused under pressure.
By training your brain as much as your body, you can:
- Neutralise the mind chatter that disrupts your focus
- Stay calm at the start and control pre-race nerves
- Keep breathing steady under pressure
- Let go of mistakes quickly and refocus in the moment
- Recover mentally from challenges mid-competition
- Build confidence and habits that set you up for winning success
When two competitors have put in the time, effort and trained well, the only difference between a Gold medallist and Silver medallist is Mindset!
How This Programme Works
This coaching is done out of the water — either in person or online — so you can focus purely on mindset and mental resilience.
Using my unique blended toolkit of:
- Master NLP techniques – to reframe negative self-talk, give yourself more neurological choices
- Havening Techniques® – to reduce anxiety and clear old patterns
- Oxygen Advantage® and HeartMath® Breathwork techniques – to calm nerves and sharpen focus
…I’ll help you train your mind to match the discipline of your body.
Together, we’ll build the mental resilience that allows you to perform with calm focus, swim at your best under pressure, and translate your training into results on race day.
Who It’s For
This programme is for competitive swimmers who:
Perform well in training but struggle on race day
Battle nerves, tension, or anxiety before and during events
Want to let go of mistakes quickly and stay in the moment
Are ready to focus on mindset as much as technique
The Results You Can Expect
Confidence
Trust yourself and your training
Calm
Start races with control, not panic
Resilience
Recover quickly from mistakes
Focus
Swim the race in front of you, moment by moment
Performance
Unlock your best times when it matters most
You’ve done the physical training. Now it’s time to master the mental and emotional game.
Swimming at Your Best – Coaching Packages
Single Breakthrough Session
- 1-to-1 session using the neuroscience technique of ‘Havening Techniques®’ (in person or online)
- Break negative emotional reaction, free yourself from anxiety, nerves and old patterns of behaviour
The Havening Techniques® aims to delink a thought from its negative emotional charge by altering the brains chemistry. By creating new pathways and associating negative experience, trauma with a sense of safety and calm, the technique helps reduce anxiety, stress and other negative emotional reactions. Every client leaves this session with the ability to use ‘Self Havening’ for themselves following the session which means you will be able to feel calmer and less stressed, whilst also being able to build your own resilience and wellbeing. The method is backed by academic research, and my clients tell me they see a shift in just one session.
Ideal for swimmers who want to reduce stress and anxiety by using a simple sensory touch technique which is backed by neuroscience
Investment: £89 (60-90mins)
Half Day Breakthrough Session
Calm your nerves. Sharpen your focus.
- 1-to-1 performance mindset coaching (in person or online)
- Introduction of how our minds work
- Pre-race nerves management toolkit
- Breathing techniques to steady anxiety
- Quick reframe strategies for negative self-talk
Perfect if you want immediate tools to perform better at your next race.
Investment: £397 (1/2 day)
3-Session Performance Prep
Turn training into results on race day
Across 3 sessions, we’ll build mental resilience and prepare you to swim at your best under pressure:
- Neutralise the Demons – Stop negative self-talk before it derails you.
- Pre-Race Calm – Manage nerves at the start and focus on the process.
- Resilience in the Moment – Refocus after mistakes and keep racing strong.
Ideal for swimmers preparing for a competition or season who want practical, lasting mindset tools.
Investment: £810 (3 ×2 to 3hr sessions)
6-Session Competition Mindset Mastery (can also be done as a 2-day intensive plus pre work)
Train your mind like you train your body.
This programme builds long-term mental and emotional resilience, giving you the same discipline in mindset that you already have in technique. Over 6 sessions we’ll:
- Uncover the REAL unconscious problem driving your self-sabotage and negative self-talk (and fix it!)
- Get out of your own way and remove limiting Beliefs and Decisions i.e. I can’t do…; I fear failure; I’m not good enough.
- Get clarity so that you have more energy and motivated towards your goal
- Take back control – identify and interrupt unhelpful patterns that keep repeating themselves
- Release yourself from negative emotions from the past that are holding you back such as Anger, Sadness, Fear, Hurt and Guilt
- Give yourself the best chance of getting what you want by knowing your VALUES in the context of your goal i.e. Competitive Career
- Clarity on the direction that you are going without doubt! Feel empowered with newfound confidence
- Discover what’s really driving you and replacing conflicted thinking with clarity
- Rewire negative patterns with NLP & Havening Techniques®
- Build calm, powerful breathing habits using Oxygen Advantage® and HeartMath® techniques
- Create a personalised pre-competition routine
- Train recovery strategies for setbacks during races
- Learn how to reflect positively and carry growth into future events
For swimmers who want to consistently perform at their best and compete with confidence. This ‘Breakthrough’ training focuses on your mindset – freeing you from the past and setting you up for winning in the future.
Investment: £2997 (6 × ½ day sessions plus some pre work) or (2 day intensive with some pre work)
Why Choose Swimming at Your Best?
In person or online flexibility to suit your training schedule (can be hybrid)
Supportive, structured, and competition-focused approach
Proven techniques to calm nerves, silence mind chatter, and sharpen focus
Practical strategies you can apply immediately on race day
Imagine in just a few sessions, you’ll shed the limitations that have been holding you back and excited about your next race….AND ready to take action
The benefits? Clarity, confidence and a renewed sense of control. You’ll emerge with newfound drive to conquer not just your next race, competition goals, but life too!
Don’t let the negative mindset and self-talk continue to dictate your results.
You’ve done the physical training.
Now it’s time to master the mind game. You CAN take action, and I’d be delighted to help you break free and embrace your full potential.