Integrative wellbeing and performance coaching for leaders, athletes, and ambitious professionals ready to elevate their performance, sustainably.
Integrative Coaching
You've proven you can perform under pressure. You've climbed your share of mountains — literal and metaphorical, no doubt — and reached heights many only dream about.
But sustainable performance asks more than capacity alone. It asks for more of who you are, not just of what you do.
Finding your next edge isn't just about pushing harder; it's about going deeper. Reconnecting with what fuels you, restoring what the climb has cost, and building the kind of foundation where excellence and wellbeing are in unison rather than tension.
We work with leaders, athletes, and ambitious individuals who are ready to expand their self-awareness, build mental and emotional fitness, develop resilience, and lead with greater ease, meaning and impact.
Our methodology integrates the physiological and psychological dimensions of wellbeing to support the human behind that performance role. We combine evidence-based insights from physiology, neuroscience and psychology with over a decade of experience working with Olympic athletes and elite performers.
Integrative Coaching is about cultivating wholeness — bringing your full capability and your full humanity to everything you do, and who you're becoming along the way.
Our Approach
We integrate physiological and psychological dimensions to enhance wellbeing and build performance, through bespoke methodologies that empower you to realise what is uniquely possible for you.
Our methodology combines evidence-based insights from cognitive behavioural science, neuroscience, and exercise physiology with over a decade of experience working with elite performers, Olympic athletes and professional leaders. We integrate body-based strategies with mindset techniques to create sustainable transformation.
We don't guess. We assess. Every engagement begins with a comprehensive evaluation of where you are across three domains: physical and mental wellbeing, psychological frameworks, and performance metrics. This reveals the specific integration gaps and edges that will unlock your next level.
[Learn more about our Performance Assessment here]
About us
Marissa Downes | Principal Coach
“As complex and nuanced humans, I believe performance, too, is multifaceted. My work draws on a holistic understanding of the whole person — recognising the connections between physical, mental, emotional, social and environmental wellbeing as the foundation for sustainable, lasting excellence.”
Marissa is passionate about helping people truly understand and get the best from themselves.
The Melbourne-born wellbeing and performance advocate has worked with New Zealand and Australian Olympic teams across both Summer and Winter Olympic campaigns. She holds a postgraduate academic qualification in sport science, including a Master’s Degree in Sport & Exercise, certificates in trauma-informed coaching, mental health first aid, mindfulness and breathwork practices, and is currently completing her Post Graduate Diploma in Psychological Sciences at Deakin University.
For the last decade, Marissa has been leveraging her unique skill set to help improve her clients’ wellbeing, quality of life and performance through her integrative coaching business. Her clients benefit from gains in clarity, confidence, decision making, problem solving and self-esteem.
“I incorporate a ‘human-centred’ approach to coaching, which is centred around reconnecting to, understanding, and integrating all parts of the self, challenging old thinking patterns and beliefs, and creating harmony between habits, identity and life pursuits. All of this is driven by the individual’s strengths and values to enhance their wellbeing and improve their performance. ”