Coachings for Climbing Gyms & Staff

Climbing Psychology is globally recognised as a pioneer of psychology in all major disciplines of rock climbing. We believe that a climber’s mental strength is as important as their physical strength, and have spent years tailoring unique programs and training methods for climbers.

Our goal is to support climbing gyms – and their staff – in the best possible way: from dealing with difficult customers, developing a healthy work-life-balance and learning to set boundaries (particularly if both life and work is all about climbing), dealing with fear of failure, personality development, building self-esteem and developing confidence. Mentally stronger and more resilient staff will lead to better results in their work – and ultimately will impact your climbing gym and their members.

Climbing Psychology collaborates with climbing gyms, climbing trainers and climbing coaches to improve their mindset in climbing.

Do you find it hard to set boundaries between work and life because all evolves around climbing? Do feel like your limiting beliefs and lack of confidence sometimes hold you back – both in your climbing and professional life? Do you constantly compare yourself and find it hard to trust yourself – which impacts your decision making at work, but also in climbing? Do you struggle with fear of failing and overthinking? Do you give up quickly and want to improve your perseverance? Or do you have difficulties motivating yourself?

Work and climbing show many parallels. If we work on our mindset, it will ultimately impact both our satisfaction, joy, resilience in work and climbing.

We are often confronted with situations which we might not be able to solve on our own. In our individual coaching sessions, we elaborate strategies and solutions for existing problems together. The aim is to tap your staff’s full potential and help them perform at their best while fully enjoying it.

Just imagine how work, climbing (and life) would be like if you fully trusted and believed in yourself?

How would you feel if you were mentally strong and resilient and your fears weren’t holding you back?

How would you enjoy work if you were better able to set boundaries?

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What to expect when working on your mindset…

You will feel more confident in yourself and your abilities – which will not only have an effect on your work performance, climbing but also your life in general.
You develop strategies to better cope with your fears, failure, insecurities, doubts, and so on…
Your enjoyment for climbing and work, as well as your motivation will increase.
Dealing with difficult emotions such as fear, disappointment, anger, and so on will become easier and better manageable.
You will be more present and reach a flow state more easily.
The mental strategies and tools you will learn in our coachings will help you to better deal with mentally challenging situations.
You will learn to better listen to yourself, your needs and your “gut feeling”.
Climbing will become more playful again. And work, too.
You will have a clear goal in mind which will help you set your focus and prioritise what matters to you.
…and you will become more emotionally stable, confident and resilient.

If you are a climbing gym and want to provide psychological support for your staff, we offer special packages – these are fully tax deductible, and function as a work organisational prevention measure (in most European countries, this is mandatory for bigger organisations and businesses). Our team members are not only certified sport psychologists and climbers, but we are also certified work psychologists – we deeply understand climbing and the industry around it.

We cooperate with several organisations and climbing gyms who support individual coaching sessions for their staff.

If you are a staff member in a climbing gym, inform yourself whether you can get financial support by your gym. If you work in climbing, you can write individual mental coachings as an expense off tax.

Federations and teams we have worked with:

Get to know your psychologists

Climbing Psychology supports climbers to lift their mindset in climbing.

Madeleine is a passionate climber who has been climbing for more than 20 years herself, competing nationally and internationally for almost 15 years. She is a certified sport psychologist and systemic coach, lives in the West of Austria (close to the Swiss border) and is specialised on climbing. She has been working with climbers and climbing coaches from all around the globe, regardless of their age or professional level. Madeleine also has a cooperation with the local Olympic Center in Vorarlberg. When she is not working, you will very likely find her at one of the local crags, in the gym or at home, baking something.

is a mental coach and sports psychologist i.e. living in beautiful climbing mekka Innsbruck, Austria. Having grown up in a mountainous region nearby, she feels an intrinsic connection to this landscape – mountains feel like home to her. She is all about outdoor sports, especially climbing, which gives her that exhilarating feeling of freedom. Carina loves pushing her own limits and finding that mental edge.

is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist (M.A.) specialized in climbing. She is currently doing her PhD, with a research focus on the psychological characteristics involved in sport climbing and bouldering (indoor/outdoor; competitional/non-competitional). Maria is also a passionate rock-climber herself, having climbed French 8b (5.13d).

is a Sports and Exercise Psychologist based in Helsinki, Finland. She has worked with recreational and competitive climbers and specialised in dealing with perfectionism, a high drive for performance among recreational climbers, career transitioning, stress management and commitment via deepening self-knowledge. She found her passion for climbing in her forties and wants to continue climbing for decades ahead.