For Parents
What your athlete is doing with HeadCoach.
Your athlete's club or school has added structured mental skills training alongside their physical training. Here is what that means in practice.
What your athlete does
60 seconds a day.
Structured mental skills training.
Each day, your athlete opens the app for about a minute. They check in on how training is going, log their energy level, and capture a short reflection. They then train one specific mental skill — confidence, focus, resilience, self-control, and so on.
That is the whole daily interaction. It fits around homework and training. Nothing is open-ended. Nothing feels like another homework assignment.
The eight skills
Develops the whole athlete,
not just the outcome.
HeadCoach trains eight mental skills across the season. These are life skills that transfer beyond sport — the same skills your athlete will use in school, in interviews, and in adult life.
Who built HeadCoach
Built by elite coaches and a chartered sport psychologist.
HeadCoach was built by elite-level coaches and a chartered sport and performance psychologist. The training is grounded in neuroscience and delivered through evidence-based performance strategies.
Jonathon designed the HeadCoach Performance System. A UEFA A-licensed coach with over a decade of work across competitive programmes in Northern Ireland, England, China, Canada, and the United States, he spent years coaching youth and academy athletes before building the methodology that became HeadCoach. He identified what no published framework addressed: physical development in competitive sport was structured, progressive, and daily — mental development was not. He built a system to close that gap, tested and refined it through direct coaching practice, and HeadCoach is its digitisation. He is accredited in emotional intelligence for athletes by RocheMartin and has delivered the system directly to thousands of young athletes across competitive programmes.
Joe is a chartered sport and performance psychologist and certified emotional intelligence master practitioner accredited by RocheMartin. He has applied performance psychology in elite sport and high-performance business environments throughout his career. At HeadCoach, Joe leads the scientific framework — validating Jonathon's methodology against the research evidence in sport psychology and neuroscience, and ensuring every element of the training system is structured for performance outcomes rather than therapeutic intervention.
Time commitment
Short, daily, and built to fit.
The daily check-in takes under 60 seconds. Skill training is a short audio lesson and a simple strategy the athlete tries that day — in training, at school, or before a game.
It compounds across the season. Small daily reps, tracked patterns, and a weekly summary of what is working.
What it is. What it is not.
Mental skills training.
Not therapy or counselling.
HeadCoach is training, not treatment. It sits in the same category as physical conditioning and tactical work — applied to the mental side of competition. It builds skills like focus and resilience the way strength coaching builds speed and power.
It is not a substitute for counselling, therapy, or clinical care. If your athlete is experiencing something that calls for professional support, that belongs with a qualified practitioner. HeadCoach does not assess, diagnose, or treat.
Who sees your athlete's data
Your athlete's responses are private to them.
Mood entries, reflections, and individual skill scores are visible only to your athlete. Coaches do not see them. The club or school does not see them. No one at HeadCoach reviews individual responses as part of the training.
Coaches see team-level engagement points — how consistently athletes are logging in across the squad. That is it. They cannot see who felt what, who reflected on what, or how any individual athlete scored on any skill.
Your athlete can choose to add a nominated contact — a parent or family member — to receive the weekly summary. That choice sits with your athlete, and it can be changed at any time inside the app.
For parents
Add your email. See the same weekly summary your athlete gets.
Your athlete can add your email inside the app. When they do, you receive the same weekly wrap report they receive — a summary of the week's skill progress, habits, and patterns.
It is a weekly summary, not live tracking. One report a week. If your athlete does not add your email, you will not receive anything from HeadCoach. The choice sits with the athlete by design.
Install HeadCoach
Your athlete installs HeadCoach on their own device.
Available on iPhone and Android. Installation is athlete-owned. Parents do not need to install anything.
