Find your Edge. Ascend to your Next Level.
Integrative coaching for leaders, athletes, and ambitious professionals ready to unlock their next level of performance, with purpose.
Integrative Coaching
You've already proven you can perform under pressure. You've climbed your share of mountains - literal or metaphorical - and reached heights most people only dream about.
But you're sensing there's another level waiting. Another edge to challenge. Another summit calling. A deeper meaning to be forged.
Finding that edge and ascending to your next level requires something different from what got you here. It requires reconnecting with your authentic self and building the foundation for sustainable, meaningful excellence.
We work with leaders, athletes, and ambitious individuals who are ready to expand their self-awareness, build mental and emotional fitness, develop resilience, and align their actions with their deepest values.
Our methodology integrates the physiological and psychological dimensions of performance, combining evidence-based insights from neuroscience and psychology with over a decade of experience working with Olympic athletes and elite performers.
Integrative Coaching isn't just about capability - it's about wholeness and meaning. Bringing together the performer, the human, and the person you're becoming, with the legacy you're drawn to create.
Our Approach
We integrate physiological and psychological dimensions through a person-centred approach that empowers you to realise your unique potential.
Our methodology combines evidence-based insights from cognitive behavioural science, neuroscience, and physiology with over a decade of experience working with elite performers, Olympic athletes and professional leaders. We integrate bottom-up strategies (body, brain, nervous system) with top-down techniques (cognition, coaching, behavioural change) to create sustainable transformation.
We don't guess. We assess. Every engagement begins with a comprehensive evaluation of where you are across three domains: personal capacity, psychological patterns, 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
“A significant part of my work teaches people how to understand themselves better and train their mindset towards fulfilment and having agency in life. These are fundamental pillars to wellbeing and performance.”
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. ”