Mental coaching for athletes
Quiet the noise.Own the moment.
Practical mental-performance coaching for athletes who want to compete with more confidence, composure, and focus—especially when the pressure rises.
Talent gets you into the game.
Your mental skills help you stay present when the game gets loud.
What we coach
Mental skills you can use in the moment.
We turn sport psychology principles into clear, practical tools athletes can rehearse in training and call on during competition.
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Performance Under Pressure
Build repeatable routines for high-stakes moments, recover faster after mistakes, and stay connected to the next play.
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Confidence & Self-Talk
Replace unhelpful internal commentary with practical cues that strengthen trust, focus, and competitive presence.
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Visualization & Focus
Practice mental rehearsal, attention control, and pre-performance preparation that translates to competition.
04
Arousal Regulation
Recognize your performance zone and use breathing, grounding, and activation tools when intensity shifts.
Built around the athlete
Not a pep talk. A repeatable system.
Every athlete experiences pressure differently. Coaching begins with your real competition patterns, then builds a personal set of skills you can practice, measure, and refine.
- Identify what disrupts focus and confidence
- Build a pre-performance and reset routine
- Rehearse tools between sessions
- Track what works in practice and competition
The N.O.I.S.E. approach
Pause the automatic response. Choose what helps performance next.
Ways to work together
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Individual athletes
Personalized mental-performance coaching built around your sport, goals, and pressure points.
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Teams & coaches
Interactive sessions that create a shared language for confidence, communication, and bounce-back.
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Schools & programs
Clinics and multi-week programs designed for student-athletes, parents, and athletic staff.
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Experience that sees the whole athlete.
Our work respects both the demands of competition and the person carrying them. We help athletes build skills without reducing them to a score, stat, or outcome.
Founder & Sports Consultant
Lori Maestas, MA, NCC
Lori brings a counseling-informed understanding of confidence, nervous-system responses, identity, and performance under pressure to practical, non-therapy sports consulting.
lori@nttnsp.comSports Consultant
Erin Louis
With a background in Sports Medicine and Nutrition, Division I basketball experience, and coaching for the U.S. Air Force, Erin connects mental skills to the realities of training and competition.
erin.louis@nttnsp.comPerformance coaching, clearly defined.
This service is educational and performance-focused. It is not psychotherapy, mental-health treatment, diagnosis, or crisis care. If clinical support is needed, we will help clarify the appropriate next step.
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What could change if the noise stopped running the moment?
Tell us about the athlete, team, or program you have in mind. We'll talk through the current challenge and the best-fit next step.
Serving Tucson, Green Valley, Sahuarita & virtual clients