Coach Laura Mitchell Wilde

Coach Laura M Wilde is a Sports MetaPhysician. Wilde offers mental performance, consistency training, and meditation training for pro athletes in the NFL, NBA, MLB and WNBA and for professional ballet dancers in Russia.

Coach Laura was the first mental performance coach for the NBA's LA Clippers. She is a former two-sport college scholarship athlete.

With two decades of experience coaching basketball, football players, track athletes, golfers, and volleyball players, Wilde is the ultimate expert to lead athletes to their next levels.

Wilde is a certified intuition and zone instructor. Called The Zone Architect by NBA greats, Laura has a passion for helping athletes master the zone. She created a step by step process that works for elite performers.

From Laura: "One day, I received a frantic text from an NBA athlete who had been an All-Star for six straight years.

He couldn’t get out of his own head. He was in a deep slump. It was bad. Social media was ruthless. He felt that every mistake was amplified and his confidence was gone.

What I saw immediately wasn’t a skill issue.

It was a nervous system issue plus an identity issue. He was disconnected from the state where performance flows naturally.

Using my Zone training, Holistic Mental Performance, and Sports Energy Medicine, we didn’t just talk about the zone or performance ... we went to the root. We stabilized his system, cleared the internal noise, and reconnected him to the part of himself that knows how to perform under pressure.

He broke the slump and has been thriving ever since.

That moment reaffirmed what I’ve seen for years: even the most accomplished, disciplined, high-achieving performers are vulnerable when life stops going their way. Talent isn’t enough. Intelligence isn’t enough. Experience isn’t enough.

What sustains greatness is nervous system regulation, presence, and leadership from the inside out.

My work is about developing that inner leadership—the ability to lead yourself first, especially when the lights are bright and the stakes are high. When athletes learn to operate from clarity instead of fear, coherence instead of chaos, they don’t just perform better. They become harder to shake and I mean on the court and in life."

Laura holds patents in Sports Energy Medicine™️ and Holistic Mental Performance™️. In other words, she will help you be your best on the court or in the ring or on the field - and stay healthy while you do it. Deep-seated issues that lead to poor performance and poor health might take a year to solve with typical methods can often be solved in hours or weeks. Her proprietary system, The Athlete's Journey™️ is trusted by the pros and some of the sports world's biggest superstars.

A former college NCAA Head Coach and D1 Grad assistant basketball coach, Mitchell also holds Bachelor's degrees in Literature and Holistic Healthcare and a Master's of Science in Sport Psychology. A lifelong learner and curious person, Laura is a licensed Consciousness-Based BodyMind Medicine Practitioner, and holds certificates in Sports Nutrition, Holistic Healthcare, Energy Medicine, Neuroscience, Meditation, Epigenetic Energy Medicine, Health Coaching, and is also certified in Sports Management from Columbia University's Ivy League certification program. She will complete her PhD in integrative medicine in 2026.