I'm Ciaran, the founder of Peakin High Performance. I'm a mental performance coach specialising in flow, passionate about helping athletes develop their mental game, experience flow and reach their potential.
Ciaran King
Mental Performance Coach | Accredited Flow Coach
My Story
As a former elite downhill mountain bike racer, I understand first-hand the mental challenges of competitive sport, from managing pressure and overcoming fear to building confidence and trusting your abilities. I know just how much my mental game affected my performance and enjoyment. For far too long, I didn't do anything about it, and guess what? I kept experiencing the same frustrating outcomes.
A major turning point in my racing career came when I decided to work with a mental performance coach. Working with a coach opened my eyes to how much influence I could have over my mental game. I began to understand myself better, develop my mindset and approach both sport and life differently. My performance and enjoyment improved, but perhaps more importantly, I developed the awareness, tools and resilience to navigate challenges and setbacks more effectively. From that moment, I was hooked. My passion for understanding the mind, personal development and helping others eventually led me to become a mental performance coach.
My Coaching Journey
Over the past four years as a coach, I've worked with athletes across different sports and levels, including professional World Cup racers, helping them overcome challenges, develop their mindset and find flow in their sport and life. It's been incredibly rewarding to see athletes grow in confidence, overcome challenges, achieve personal milestones and get more from their experiences.
My coaching combines performance coaching, flow psychology and personal development to support your performance, wellbeing and growth. Drawing on performance psychology, positive psychology and neuroscience, my approach helps you better understand yourself, develop your mental skills and create the conditions for flow.
Whether you're struggling with confidence, feeling overwhelmed by pressure or looking to take your performance to the next level, coaching provides personalised support and practical strategies to help you move forward.
Together, we'll explore what's helping you perform at your best, what's holding you back and how to develop the mindset and psychological skills to perform with greater confidence, consistency and enjoyment.
My Qualifications & Development
I'm an Accredited Flow Coach, having completed 143 hours of coach training through the Flow Coaching Federation, an organisation specialising in flow coaching and human performance.
My coaching draws on performance psychology, positive psychology and neuroscience, combining evidence-informed approaches with my personal experience in competitive sport.
I'm committed to continually developing my knowledge, skills and understanding, both as a coach and as a person, so I can provide the best possible support to those I work with. I do this through my own riding, surfing, rock climbing, mountaineering and day-to-day life.