Psychology and mental coaching for athletes, performance staff and organisations.

Perform at your best.
Stay at your best.

— Sustainable performance

Build the mental skills to deliver under pressure, and the wellbeing to keep doing it for years.

We create self-awareness, so you know what to work on and how. Mental skills and wellbeing aren’t a repair job for when things go wrong. They’re part of how you prepare and perform.

The work is practical and built around your sport or role, whether that’s a final, a season or a high-stakes project.

The sustainable performance essentials

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Essential

You

The Foundation

Who are you? What do you need? What are your strengths? Self-awareness is the starting point. Together, we’ll work on a personal blueprint that helps you understand how you respond under pressure, what drives you, and what you need to be at your best.

Strengths
Personality and values
Behaviour and communication
Self-care

Essential

Mental Health

The Accelerator

Performance and mental health go hand in hand. Mental health helps accelerate your growth and your performance under pressure. By understanding your needs and using proven strategies, you can stay focused and perform well even when pressure is on or life gets challenging. Feel good when you perform. Feel good when you don’t.

Thoughts and emotions
Relationships
Flow state
Your why
Control and goals

Essential

Growth

Better Every Day

Learn to reflect on yourself, the process, and your team. Set meaningful goals. Turn setbacks into fuel for improvement. Growth isn’t about perfection; it’s about intentional progress.

Reflect and learn
High performance mindset
Goal-setting
Handling adversity

Essential

Perform Under Pressure

When it matters most

Deliver when it matters most. Through practical mental skills such as self-talk, breathing, visualisation, and focus techniques, you’ll learn to stay in the zone, manage distractions, and make the right decisions under pressure.

Be present
Be in the zone
Breathing and routines
Be prepared

The athletes I work with compete e.g. in the leagues below. I’ve also trained young talents for the Dutch Ministry of Defence and worked in higher education.

I’m Thorben Meijer

I help athletes, performance staff and organisations perform at their best.

My approach combines research-informed psychology with practical strategies from elite sport.

Whether you're preparing for Olympic competition, leading a high-stakes team or navigating career pressure, together we’ll build the skills and the self-knowledge to perform, and to keep performing.

  • MSc Coaching and Positive Psychology

  • MSc Business Administration (Leadership & Motivation)

  • BSc Sports Science (Management)

  • EMCC Master Coach Level

  • Certified Coach NOBCO (Dutch Professional Coaching Body)

  • Wilderness Guide

What you’ll gain

From the essentialsYou · Mental Health
Perform better. Last longer.

Know yourself, and feel well while you perform.

You. Know what drives you and what you need to be at your best.
Mental health. It accelerates your growth and your performance under pressure.

Perform well. Live well. Both.

For athletes & teams
From the essentialsGrowth · Perform Under Pressure
Be ready when it counts.

Train your mind like you train your craft.

Growth. Reflect, set meaningful goals and turn setbacks into fuel.
Perform under pressure. Self-talk, breathing and focus skills to decide well when it matters.

So when it’s time to deliver, you’re ready.

For organisations & leaders

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Tell me what you’re working on, and we’ll see if we’re a good fit.