Master Your Trading Mental Edge
1:1 Performance Analysis & Optimization For Professional Traders
When You Know What To Do—But Can't Execute It Consistently
If you’re a professional or high-performance discretionary trader struggling with inconsistency or emotion-based trading, you’ve likely felt the frustration of knowing exactly what to do…and still being unable to do it.
Surface-level mindset hacks and aimless journaling won’t cut it. Until you understand the specific psychological and behavioural patterns that are driving your performance challenges, every ‘fix’ will fall short.
As a High-Performance Psychologist (chartered in Ireland), who has supported high-stakes professionals since 2007, I help traders cut through the noise and identify the precise internal mechanisms disrupting their performance. From there, we develop a precision-focused mental-conditioning plan to resolve those limiting patterns and optimize your trading performance.
Does This Sound Familiar
You’re a skilled, experienced trader — but your execution isn’t matching your capability. You know your strategy works, yet something internal keeps disrupting consistency at critical moments.
Perhaps you’ve noticed patterns like:
- Deviating from your plan under pressure, even when you know the rules
- Hesitating on valid setups or exiting winners too early
- Increasing size impulsively after a loss or win
- Repeating behaviours you logically understand are destructive
- Watching your performance fluctuate in ways your system can’t explain
These aren’t mindset “issues”. They’re psychological and behavioural patterns influencing how you execute under pressure. Until you identify what they are and how they operate, performance inconsistencies will continue regardless of strategy, discipline, or effort.
Build the Internal Architecture for Consistent, High-Level Execution
When you gain command over your internal state under pressure, your trading becomes consistent, deliberate, and aligned with your edge.
You become composed under pressure and clinically effective in the execution of your trading plan. Your decisions become clearer, your responses more controlled, and your performance more consistent. Trading begins to feel like mastery rather than forced effort.
Uncover the psychological and behavioural mechanisms driving inconsistency so you can address the source—not just the symptoms.
Develop the psychological conditioning and behavioural precision needed to execute your trading plan reliably under pressure.
Accelerate your performance evolution with expert guidance that prevents months or years of trial-and-error.
The Performance Analysis & Optimization Process
Strategic Planning
(One session)
A focused intake and assessment session to map your trading context, execution challenges, behavioural patterns, and performance objectives. This session sets the foundation for Phase 2 and for your bespoke mental-conditioning plan.
Deep Dive Performance Analysis & Optimization
(4 x 1.5 hour sessions conducted over 2 days)
We deep-dive into decoding the root of your current trading challenges and design a personalized mental conditioning routine to overcome them. We create bespoke mental training tools, tailored exactly to your needs, for optimal results.
Implementation
(12 weeks)
During this phase, you’ll implement your mental-conditioning routine as part of your weekly trading process. You’ll receive structured accountability via your private Trello board, and we’ll hold two strategic check-in sessions scheduled at key milestones to ensure effective integration.
Elevation & Long-Term Integration
(One session)
In your final session we consolidate insights, evaluate progress, and outline a 6-month performance roadmap to solidify and extend gains independently. You leave with a clear, structured pathway for long-term mastery and professional-level execution.
What Créde’s Trader Clients are Saying
Testimonial Disclosure: These testimonials reflect client experiences from Créde’s broader trading psychology work and demonstrate her expertise in helping traders resolve the internal drivers of performance issues. Results reflect individual circumstances. Testimonials appearing on this website may not be representative of other clients or customers and is not a guarantee of future performance or success.
Créde’s Official Bio
Créde Sheehy-Kelly is a globally recognised High-Performance Psychologist & Consultant, trusted by independent traders, hedge funds, and proprietary trading firms to strengthen performance under pressure and drive bottom-line results.
Originally qualifying as a sport psychologist, Créde began her career in 2007 working with elite athletes and sports teams. This early experience honed her expertise in how individuals perform under intense pressure — insight she later applied to the worlds of business, trading and finance, where the psychological demands mirror those of professional sport.
Distilling her coaching process into a repeatable framework, she developed the Go Deep to Level Up™ mental conditioning system—a scalable approach to elevating individual execution and performance through deep psychological transformation.
Outside of trading, Créde has designed and led large-scale behaviour-change programs leveraging sport and performance psychology principles. Notably, she designed and secured multimillion euro funding for the Z Zurich Foundation’s flagship mental wellbeing program, which has since been adapted and implemented in more than 13 countries worldwide.
Today, Créde works with traders managing multimillion-dollar accounts, trading firms and business leaders, helping them sharpen decisions, maintain discipline and perform consistently at the highest level.
Her credentials include a first-class Masters Degree in Sport and Exercise Psychology, Chartered Psychologist status with the Psychological Society of Ireland, and Accredited Advanced Sport Scientist with the Irish Sport and Exercise Sciences Association.
Frequently Asked Questions
Enrollment is by application only. Because this is a high-intensity consulting engagement that requires significant focus and dedicated analysis, I only work with a very limited number of traders at any given time.
If capacity is available and your application is a strong fit, you will be invited to move forward.
You can submit your application at any time to be considered.
The program runs over approximately 14 weeks and is delivered in four structured phases:
• Phase 1 — Strategic Planning (1 session)
A focused intake and assessment session to map your trading context, execution challenges, behavioural patterns, and performance objectives.
• Phase 2 — Deep Performance Analysis & Optimization (4 × 90-minute sessions over 2 days)
An intensive deep-dive process where we decode the psychological and behavioural mechanisms driving your execution issues and design your bespoke mental-conditioning plan.
• Phase 3 — Implementation (12 weeks)
You’ll integrate your mental-conditioning plan into your weekly trading routine. During this phase, you’ll have structured accountability via your private Trello board and two strategic check-ins at key milestones to assess progress and refine implementation.
• Phase 4 — Elevation & Long-Term Integration (1 session)
A final review to consolidate insights, evaluate performance shifts, and outline your tailored six-month performance roadmap.
This is a structured, high-level program—not ongoing coaching—designed to give you clarity, precision, and a repeatable performance framework you can rely on long after the program ends.
Session timing is coordinated during the planning phase to ensure it aligns with your trading schedule and allows for focused, uninterrupted work.
For Phase 2, we set aside four 90-minute sessions delivered over two consecutive days to allow for deep analysis, integration, and appropriate breaks between sessions.
I work with traders across multiple time zones—including Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America—so we can typically accommodate a schedule that works effectively for both of us.
This is an intensive 14-week program. The primary time commitments include:
• Approximately 10 hours of 1:1 sessions across the Strategic Planning phase, the two-day deep analysis intensive, the two further check-in sessions, and the final Integration session.
• Completion of targeted action steps following Phase 2, which form the foundation of your personalised mental-conditioning plan.
• Ongoing weekly implementation, where you integrate your mental-conditioning routine into your trading process.
Most of the deep work happens during the first two weeks, when we examine the psychological and behavioural patterns influencing your execution under pressure and build your bespoke tools and routines. Once the plan is established, implementation typically requires modest, consistent time each week, integrated directly into your existing trading workflow.
This structure ensures that the program is intensive where it needs to be, while remaining realistic and sustainable for full-time professional traders.
No. Your trading performance is influenced by market conditions, risk management, strategy quality, and your own work-ethic and execution. For these reasons, no ethical professional can guarantee financial outcomes.
What the program does provide is a rigorous process to help you:
identify the psychological and behavioural patterns influencing your execution,
develop a bespoke mental-conditioning plan, and
integrate that plan into your trading routine with structured accountability and milestone reviews.
While specific financial results cannot be guaranteed, you will be able to measure your progress by the end of the program, as performance evaluation and tracking are built directly into the process.
Although psychology can feel abstract, performance psychology is highly measurable when applied correctly. The program is designed to create objective, trackable changes in how you execute under pressure.
We begin by establishing a set of clear, performance-relevant behavioural goals—specific shifts in execution behaviours that we want to see by the end of the program. These goals are then linked directly to quantitative performance metrics from your trading, such as consistency, rule adherence, decision quality, and other execution indicators.
Throughout the program, you’ll track these metrics weekly. This allows us to see:
where improvements are occurring,
what patterns are still present, and
whether adjustments to your mental-conditioning plan are required.
By the end of the program, you’ll have objective evidence of your progress, both in how you operate internally and in the measurable aspects of your trading performance.
You only need a simple, reliable setup:
A strong broadband connection
A computer or laptop (a smartphone is fine for viewing materials, but a computer is recommended for sessions)
Access to Microsoft Word or Google Docs, and Excel or Google Sheets
Access to Zoom (free) for the 1:1 consulting sessions
Access to Trello (free), which we use for planning, notes, and ongoing implementation support
That’s it — no special software or complex tools required.
None. This program is designed to meet you exactly where you are. You don’t need any prior mindset or psychology experience — I guide you step-by-step in understanding your execution challenges and building a personalised mental-conditioning routine that supports consistent, high-level performance.
If you do already work on your mindset, this program will refine and strengthen your approach. Many clients come in using tools like journaling, visualization, affirmations or meditation, and find that the structure, clarity and precision of this process elevates their results dramatically.
By the end, you’ll not only have resolved your current performance challenges — you’ll also know how to maintain and advance your mental edge independently.
Yes — the program is highly practical. You’ll leave with a personalised Mental Edge Toolkit: a set of tailored exercises, techniques and routines designed specifically around the execution problems or behavioural patterns we identify together. These become part of your ongoing mental-conditioning routine.
You’ll also receive structured exercises, guided practices and supportive audio/PDF resources to help you integrate the work into your trading week.
The real value of the program comes from two components working together:
(1) the deep psychological clarity you gain through the sessions, and
(2) the consistent application of your personalised tools.
This combination gives traders the best chance of making meaningful improvements in their execution — but as always, your outcomes depend on your effort and follow-through.
Achieve Mastery-Level Execution
Créde’s 1:1 Performance Analysis & Optimization program is not a typical coaching container.
It’s a high-level consulting process designed for professional traders who require deep clarity, precise behavioural refinement, and a bespoke mental-conditioning plan that supports elite execution.
Through a strategically structured intensive, you’ll cut through noise, identify the internal mechanisms driving your execution issues, and implement a tailored plan to accelerate your performance in a measurable, sustainable way.
Only a limited number of traders are accepted into this program due to the depth and intensity of the work.
