Mental Performance Training for
Gymnasts & Dancers
Mental performance coaching for gymnasts & dancers looking to perform freely, trust their preparation, and compete with confidence.
Your technical skills may not be the problem…
& the solution may not be continuing to fine tune your physical skills. What if the solution is fine tuning your mental skills?
Gymnastics and dance give you something many sports don't: moments before you perform where your mind can either help or hurt you.
It's easy to replay a mistake from your last routine, dwell on a fall or missed skill, or worry about what's coming next. One mistake can quickly impact the rest of your performance if your mindset doesn't recover.
While developing your physical abilities is essential, your ability to manage your thoughts, emotions, and focus often determines how consistently you perform. Learning to stay present, trust your training, and respond well to adversity is the difference that turns good gymnasts and dancers into great ones.
You may struggle with…
✓ Overthinking before your routine or performance
✓ Struggling to let go of a mistake, fall, or missed skill
✓ Performing great in practice but not in competition
✓ Losing confidence when a mistake occurs
✓ Obsessing over your scores or placements
✓ Feeling pressure before you perform
✓ Fear of not performing to your potential
✓ Comparing yourself to teammates, competitors, or scores
✓ Uncertainty with how to train your mental game
These are incredibly common challenges. AND, they’re trainable.
Mental performance is a skill that can be built,
not just a mindset.
How mental performance training helps
Through mental performance training, we’ll learn how to:
✓ Reset after bad routines
✓ Stay focused one performance at a time
✓ Build lasting confidence
✓ Perform confidently instead of conservatively
✓ Separate your identity from your scores
✓ Trust your preparation
✓ Create a consistent pre-performance routine
✓ Handle pressure of big meets and big moments
✓ Push through the physical pain
Skills we build
We help athletes develop:
✓ Confidence
✓ Reset routines
✓ Self-talk
✓ Focus cues
✓ Mindfulness
✓ Breathing techniques
✓ Imagery
✓ Process-focused thinking
✓ Pre-performance routines
✓ Emotional regulation
FAQs
What do sessions look like?
Every athlete is different, so sessions are tailored to your goals and challenges. Together, we’ll come up with a game plan for our work together and individualize practical mental skills you can use during practices and competitions.
Logistically, our initial intake session is 50-minutes and follow-ups are 40-minutes. You can schedule session by session, or we do monthly options with 4, 2, or 1 session per month.
Why do individual sport athletes benefit from mental performance training?
Individual sports place a unique mental load on athletes.
There are no teammates to hide behind, every performance feels personal, mistakes can feel like they define you, and success or failure often feels entirely on your shoulders.
Mental performance training helps athletes learn how to compete with confidence, resilience, and trust in themselves, regardless of the outcome.
How do I get started?
Contact us or schedule a call to get connected with Kiley to hop on a phone to start discussing your game plan!
Where do I need to be located to work with you?
All sessions take place via Zoom. If you are in the Fort Collins or Denver areas, contact us to talk about in person options.
Meet Kiley, CMPC
Kiley Smith is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) with a Master's degree in Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology who specializes in helping individual sport athletes perform with greater confidence, consistency, and enjoyment. As a lifelong athlete herself with experience in tennis, running, golf, and other individual sports, she understands the unique mental demands that come with competing when all eyes are on you. Kiley works with individual sport athletes to develop practical mental skills that help them manage pressure, overcome setbacks, trust their preparation, and compete with confidence so they can perform at their best. She has worked with athletes across a variety of individual sports, including golf, tennis, swimming, gymnastics, dance, running, archery and more.