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About — Iaia Colella

I work where neuroscience meets the start line.

Iaia Colella, Brain Performance Coach

I'm Iaia Colella, mental performance coach. My background is psychology and cognitive neuroscience, with specialisations in Agonistic Trance, Sport Coaching and NLP.

I work with national and international athletes across multiple sports. The 8-Dimension Method is the system I use with every one of them — neuroscience-grounded, performance-tested, and ruthlessly practical.

What I offer isn't theory. It's a practical system I've tested personally and proven with over 50 athletes across 10+ sports.

Based
United Kingdom · Remote globally
Languages
English · Italian
Sports worked with
Track & field · Padel · Tennis · Volleyball · Swimming · Cross country · Football
Levels
National & international · Pre-Olympic · Collegiate · Teams and Academies
Mission

To make brain training as important as physical training.

Every athlete trains the body. The mind decides whether that body shows up. My mission is to give athletes the tools to feel confident, ready and purposeful when it counts.

Background

Training, practiced.

2024 →
Active practice — Athletes and Teams
Working 1:1 with national-team and international athletes across 10+ disciplines, plus partnerships with squads and academies.
2023
Specialisation: Agonistic Trance, Sport Coaching & NLP
Advanced training applying neuro-linguistic programming and trance work to high-pressure athletic performance.
2022
MSc Cognitive & Clinical Neuroscience
Deepened the bridge between mechanism and method — what's actually happening in the brain during competition, and how to train it.
2020
BSc Psychology
Foundational training in psychology, the lens through which every protocol is built and tested.

Your body is already training.
Is your brain keeping up?

Start with the 8D Performance Assessment. It maps exactly where your mental game needs work — in under 10 minutes.

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