Performance Neuro TrainingBy Dr. Paige Roberts

Optimize
your energy.
Reset the system.

Neuroscience-based sports psychology for athletes ready to clear the mental blocks, the yips, the panic, and the trauma responses holding their performance hostage. Reprogram your nervous system into Alpha flow state — and stay there.

Dr. Paige Roberts
Dr. Paige Roberts
Energy Optimization Expert
21+ yrs
in performance & wellness
10 wk
Energy Optimization Program
1,000s
global athletes served via telehealth
100%
of athletes enhanced performance
Female alpine ski racer carving down a slope
Did You Know

Performance lives in the nervous system.

The numbers tell you something most coaches don’t. The mental side isn’t a small piece. It is the piece.

01
90%
of sports performance potential is mental
02
85%
of sports injury recovery is mental
03
75%
of athletes with depression don’t seek help
04
60%
of pro athletes experience performance anxiety
Leagues & organizations served
NFLNBANHLMLBWNBANCAAMMAUSA Olympic TeamU.S. Ski & SnowboardUSA GymnasticsUSA ArcheryUSTAU.S. ArmyU.S. NavyU.S. Marine CorpsNational GuardBoeingMetaMicrosoftAmazonBlue OriginComcastSotheby’s International RealtySmartwoolSeattle UniversityNFLNBANHLMLBWNBANCAAMMAUSA Olympic TeamU.S. Ski & SnowboardUSA GymnasticsUSA ArcheryUSTAU.S. ArmyU.S. NavyU.S. Marine CorpsNational GuardBoeingMetaMicrosoftAmazonBlue OriginComcastSotheby’s International RealtySmartwoolSeattle University
The Problem

Your nervous system has four ways of saying no.

Past trauma — physical, emotional, environmental, even spiritual — locks your body into a survival state. Your electrical system dims. Brain regions stop talking to each other. Reaction time slows. Range of motion narrows. Alpha flow becomes impossible to reach.

You feel it as the yips, the balking, the panic, the slump. It isn’t willpower. It’s wiring.

Fight

01

Rage and irritation with teammates, coaches, opponents. Competing against your team instead of with them.

Flight

02

Panic before competition. Fear of failure or injury. Shaking, anxiety, thoughts of quitting the sport entirely.

Freeze

03

The yips and balking. Dissociation. Hesitation and delayed reaction time when it matters most.

Fawn

04

Performing for parents, coaches, fans — instead of from your own intuition. Losing yourself in the sport.

Injured football player holding his knee on the field
The Solution

Alpha
Imprinting.

A neuroscience-based protocol Dr. Paige developed to reset, reimprint, desensitize, and refine the past experiences quietly running your performance. We reprogram the nervous system like a computer — so your body can regain and maintain optimal energy expression of Alpha flow, and compete with speed and ease.

Step 01
Reset

Release the survival-state lock-in.

Step 02
Reimprint

Install the wiring you actually want.

Step 03
Desensitize

Take the charge out of past experiences.

Step 04
Refine

Dial in your return to Alpha flow under pressure.

What it looks like

Low energy symptoms.

These aren't within your conscious control — they're a subconscious program signaling the nervous system needs a tune-up so you can reprogram your peak performance abilities.

  • 01Performance anxiety
  • 02Depression
  • 03Up and down emotions
  • 04Anger
  • 05Loss of love for your sport
  • 06Feeling not good enough
  • 07Trouble focusing
  • 08Negative self-talk
  • 09Mind racing
  • 10Thinking you’re a loser
  • 11Replaying past events on a loop
  • 12Social withdrawal
  • 13Fighting within relationships
  • 14Drinking and drug use / abuse
  • 15Cheating or lying
  • 16Insomnia — can’t fall or stay asleep
  • 17Feeling out of breath
  • 18Balking, yips, blocks, plateaus
  • 19Shaking when the pressure is on
  • 20Increased reaction time
  • 21Slower running, biking, swimming speeds
  • 22Hesitation and delayed reaction with no conscious reason
Where it comes from

Low energy causes.

When any of these stack up, the nervous system goes into shock and resets to a trauma response — fight, flight, freeze, or fawn — slowing electrical output across mind, body, and spirit.

01

Physical traumas

Injuries · surgeries · concussions.

02

Mental traumas & high stress

Criticism from others and self · infidelities, break-ups, divorces · parental divorce · death of loved ones · loss of contracts, employment, or financial security.

03

Spiritual

Energy suckers · loss of connection to source.

04

Environmental traumas

Exposure to pathogens · chemicals and toxins · relocating or moving homes · large-scale disasters · seeing someone else get hurt, harmed, or die.

05

Habitual traumas

Not enough sleep · substance abuse · ultra-processed foods · frequent flying · large EMF exposure.

06

Socially

Maintaining relationships with negative or hurtful people · allowing people in your sphere who project jealousy, fears, inadequacies, and unhappiness onto you.

Trauma responses slow your electrical system, inhibit brain region communication, decrease auditory-visual-physical reaction, and prevent your ability to stay in Alpha flow state.

Why Optimize
Male sprinter exploding out of the starting blocks
The numbers

We are losing them silently.

Teens, young adults, and athletes are in a mental-health crisis — and most of them never get the help they need before it's too late. These are the statistics behind why this work exists.

The concussion–suicide link
#2

leading cause of death for ages 10–34 in the U.S. — suicide.

CDC, 2023
14

average age of onset for mental illness. 50% of lifetime cases begin by 14, 75% by 24.

NAMI
30%

of athletes struggling with mental health actually seek help. In some studies, as few as 10%.

Athletes for Hope · UMich
~50%

of people who die by suicide were never diagnosed with a known mental health condition.

CDC NVDRS
1.5–2×

higher rate of mental health concerns among NCAA student-athletes since the pandemic.

NCAA Well-Being Study

as likely — female student-athletes report feeling overwhelmed at twice the rate of male peers.

NCAA, 2023

This is what we're up against. Subconscious trauma responses, untreated concussions, and a culture that tells athletes to push through silently — stack into a quiet emergency. We have to stop waiting for the onset of mental illness and start building mental fitness before it breaks. Resetting the subconscious back to Alpha flow state — paired with required performance neuro training — is how we change the outcome.

The answer

Prevention is the performance standard.

We cannot keep waiting for the onset of mental illness to do something about it. The fix is upstream: integrate required performance neuro training to instill mental fitness — so true resilience is built from within before the breakdown ever starts.

01

Stop waiting for the breakdown.

The current model treats mental illness after it surfaces — usually years after the subconscious already shifted out of flow. By then we are chasing damage instead of preventing it.

02

Require performance neuro training.

Strength, conditioning, and skill work are non-negotiable in athletics. Neuro training has to be held to the same standard — built into programs, seasons, and youth development as a requirement, not an optional add-on.

03

Instill mental fitness, not crisis response.

Mental fitness is trained, repeatable, and measurable. It is the subconscious operating from flow on demand — not a coping skill pulled out after symptoms arrive.

04

Build true resilience from within.

Real resilience is not gritting through. It is a subconscious that no longer fires fight, flight, freeze, or fawn under pressure — so the athlete, student, or human stays clear, calm, and online in the moment that matters.

Dr. Paige Roberts in her practice — light therapy and brain training tools
Los Angeles · California
Practicing globally
Dr. Paige Roberts

A practitioner who actually practices what she preaches.

Colorado native, Los Angeles based. Extreme sport athlete before becoming a collegiate runner. Concussion survivor. Dr. Paige came to Performance Neuro Training the long way — losing a fellow athlete to suicide, navigating her own stress fractures and head injuries, and refusing to accept that the inner game had to stay broken.

She holds a Doctor of Health Studies, a Master of Social Work, and a B.A. in Human Performance & Wellness with an Emphasis in Exercise Science. Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Colorado and Washington.

Certified Light Therapist through The Board of Advanced Natural Health Sciences — her case studies were featured in the book Healing with Red Light Therapy. Certified Brain Health Coach through Dr. Daniel Amen MD’s program. NASM-certified Personal Trainer, Sports Performance Expansion Specialist, and Corrective Exercise Specialist. Trained in Hypnotherapy, NLP, EFT, and Matrix Reimprinting.

She works with athletes worldwide via telehealth — across the NFL, NHL, MLB, NCAA, USA Teams, and high school. Member of the American Academy of Neurology and ambassador for the Concussion Legacy Foundation.

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Performance neuro training brands
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Results

Athletes who reset — and then went and won.

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Working with Paige was the last chance I gave myself to change my mentality towards snowboarding, and it paid off dividends. The highlight of my career — an Olympic Bronze medal.
Arielle Gold
Olympic Bronze Medalist · U.S. Snowboard Halfpipe
I went on to win the North American Grand Prix that next season and grab my best World Ranking to date. Paige has given me the tools to become better than I thought possible.
Ryan Dyer
US Ski Team · NorAm Grand Prix Champion
After two months of laser-therapy sessions I had no symptoms of pain or stiffness in my wrist — after almost two years of nonstop pain. I’m very grateful for her insight.
Jeremy MacGray
Downhill Mountain Biker
Let’s Get Your Energy Optimized

Reset the system.
Compete in flow.

Telehealth sessions available globally. Start with a discovery call to see whether Performance Neuro Training is right for you, your athlete, or your team.

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