Laure Warner-Munroe
Mental Performance Coaching for Competitive Athletes
Mental Performance Coaching for Competitive Figure Skaters and Golfers
For competitive figure skaters and golfers who have developed the technical skills, but find that pressure, overthinking, mistakes, or loss of confidence can make it harder to access those skills when it matters most.
Competitive Golf | Figure Skating
The Gap
The skill is there. The competition performance doesn’t always reflect it.
You know how to do it. You’ve done it hundreds of times in practice. Then the pressure rises and something changes. You hesitate, overthink what normally feels automatic, tighten up, or carry one mistake into what happens next.
More repetitions aren’t always the answer. Sometimes the work is learning how to stay connected to what you already know how to do when the outcome matters.
You’ve trained what to do. Now train your ability to access it under pressure.
Train What Changes Under Pressure
Competition can change how you think, react, and perform, even when the skill is already there. The work is learning what helps you stay connected to your training when it matters.
We focus on the parts of competition that tend to change when the pressure rises:
Competition Preparation
Build a routine that helps you arrive ready to compete instead of trying to find your footing once the pressure is already on.
Focus & Attention
Learn where to put your attention when your mind starts jumping ahead, second-guessing, or getting pulled toward the outcome.
Execution Under Pressure
Stay connected to trained skills when overthinking, hesitation, or the urge to control what normally happens automatically gets in the way.
Mistake Recovery
Reset after an error so one mistake doesn’t become the next one.
Persistent Performance Blocks
Work with the patterns that keep showing up even when you understand the problem and know what you are supposed to do.
Competition Consistency
Build a performance process you can return to, especially when confidence, momentum, or circumstances change.
Who I Work With in Mental Performance Coaching
Elite Figure Skaters
You can land it in warm-up and still find yourself hesitating, overthinking, or skating cautiously once competition begins. We work on what changes under pressure so you can stay connected to your training, recover when something goes wrong, and skate the program instead of chasing the score.
Competitive Amateur Golfers
You have the game, but tournament pressure can make it harder to trust it. You start managing a swing that normally feels automatic, decisions get cautious, or one bad hole follows you to the next tee. We work on staying committed to the shot in front of you, resetting when things go sideways, and trusting the game you’ve already built.
My primary areas of focus are figure skating and golf, but I also work with athletes and performers in other disciplines when what they’re experiencing is a good fit for my approach.
YOU MAY BE A GOOD FIT IF:
You’ve put in the practice. The issue isn’t whether you know what to do. It’s being able to do it when competition changes the way you think, feel, or respond.
What feels automatic in practice becomes harder to access in competition.
Your attention gets pulled toward scores, results, or what could go wrong instead of what is happening right now.
Under pressure, you start overthinking, controlling, or hesitating over things you normally just do.
One mistake follows you into the next moment instead of staying where it happened.
The same performance problem keeps showing up even though you understand it and have tried to fix it.
You want to trust your training and enjoy competing again, instead of spending the whole time managing yourself.
Access your training when it counts the most.
The Strategy
Build What You Can Rely on Under Pressure
Mental performance coaching isn’t about getting rid of nerves or manufacturing confidence. We figure out what changes for you in competition, then build practical ways to respond that you can actually use when you’re in it.
PLAN
Know what you want to do before pressure starts making decisions for you. Identify what you can control, prepare for what tends to throw you off, and go into competition with a clear plan.
CENTER
Notice when your attention gets pulled toward things you can’t control, then bring it back to what you can do right now.
AIM
Get clear about what matters in this moment. Make a decision, commit to it, and put your attention on the part of the performance you can control.
FLOW
Reconnect with the athlete you know yourself to be. Trust what you’ve trained, stay with the performance in front of you, and let yourself compete instead of trying to force confidence.
RESET
Let the mistake be information, not the rest of your performance. Deal with what happened, take what you need from it, and bring your attention back to what comes next.
The Coach
Laure Warner-Munroe, LMFT
I work with serious competitors who know their sport and want the mental side of their performance to become as reliable as the skills they’ve spent years developing.
I come from a performance background myself, so I know the difference between being prepared and having to actually show up when it counts. Knowing what you can do and being able to access it under pressure are not always the same thing. That perspective shapes how I work with athletes.
My work focuses on the mental side of performance: where your attention goes, what happens when doubt shows up, how you make decisions under pressure, and how you recover when something doesn’t go according to plan. We work on helping you access and trust the skills you’ve already developed when the pressure is on.
My style is direct, practical, and individualized. We focus on understanding what gets in your way and building an approach you can actually use when nerves, pressure, or doubt show up in competition.
For persistent performance blocks that don’t shift through conscious strategies alone, I may also use Brainspotting as a coaching tool.
WHEN THE SAME BLOCK KEEPS SHOWING UP
Sometimes knowing what to do isn't enough.
You may understand the strategy. You may have practiced it. Your technical coach may know the skill is there. And yet the same response keeps appearing.
Sometimes it is one element, one shot, a particular competitive situation, or a past performance that keeps showing up long after you thought you had moved past it.
When a performance block keeps showing up even though you understand it and have worked on it consciously, I may use Brainspotting as a coaching tool. It gives us another way to work with something that isn’t shifting through strategy alone. Brainspotting is one tool within the larger coaching process, not the program itself.
The goal isn't to keep adding strategies. It's to find what helps the block finally move.
