Allegra Maguire
Allegra is a psychologist, and PhD student in decision making, she has a Batchelor degree in psychology and a Master’s of Science.
About us
Climb in Flow is a collaboration of a doctor in psychology, a high end athlete and an instructor/author, all with an obsession in climbing and a passion for climbing psychology.
They have a combined experience of 56 years, in all aspects of climbing, whether it be bouldering, sport climbing, competing at a high level, big walling, alpine and winter climbing. Whichever discipline you favour, we have the experience to help.
It doesn’t matter whether you climb E10 or S, 8C or 4C, when you climb at your personal limit, we all experience the same feelings. We will help you on your way to climb free.
Our Vision
We believe in a simple approach to Climbing Psychology backed by science and experience. Many people focus on the physical side of training whilst neglecting the mind in climbing. The mind is one of the most important tools in climbing.
Here at Climb in Flow we aim to help educate people on the skill sets required to improve your mind game in a safe and welcoming environment. Whether you are a beginner climber, or an accomplished athlete, we will provide you with strategies to help you train your mind to accomplish and perform at your best.
Meet the team
Each person is unique and we will do our best to tailor to your individual needs. We hope to bring accessible information to climbers about how to best train their minds to optimise performance.
Kevin Roet
Kevin is a climbing instructor, obsessive climber and the author of the book Climbing Psychology. He has been climbing for 26 years.
Emma Twyford
Emma has been climbing for 31 of her 38 years. She started out trad climbing in the Lake District with her Dad and friends.
Allegra Maguire
Allegra is a psychologist, and PhD student in decision making, she has a Batchelor degree in psychology and a Master’s of Science in Applied Experimental Psychological Sciences. She is currently the sport psychologist for the Swedish National climbing team. She is Italian, living in Sweden.
Starting climbing in oinly 2020, Allegra quickly realised her calling. While doing her PhD, within her first year of climbing, she progressed from not being able to do a single pull up to climbing 7a on lead. After two years of climbing, she competed in the Swedish Lead Championships, finishing 7th overall. She is now head routesetter, and coaches at her local club. As a psychologist, she quickly realised the mental aspects of climbing were largely overlooked and started a YouTube channel on climbign psychology.
She is now a mental climbing coach, with an array of clients. She specialises in mental training for beginner and elite athletes.
Allegra’s coaching can be delivered in Italian or English.
Kevin Roet
It is a passion and way of life, which he loves to share with others. He loves every climbing discipline, for each has its own merits and challenges. He has a particular love for big walling and winter climbing, as it provides a platform to be challenged mentally as well as physically. He loves the pursuit of challenge.
After a few unfortunate incidents, Kevin developed a fear of falling. After a lot of reading, research, and work on his head game, his performance improved again. He realised that so many other climbers suffer from some form a psychological challenges in their climbing. He wanted to help others deal with this part of climbing. So, he established the Climbing Psychology workshop 9 years ago. This makes Kevin a good mental skills coach in climbing, as he can relate to most of the issues, we all come up against, from first-hand experience.
Kevin’s coaching can be delivered in Dutch or English.
Emma Twyford
From the age of 10 she enjoyed competing, became British Bouldering Champion and represented Team GB till the age of 24. At this point she decided to return to her love of outdoor climbing.
Emma was the first British woman to redpoint 9a with an ascent of the Big Bang, she has also on-sighted numerous 8a’s. She has head pointed E9 and flashed E8 on trad. In 2019 she turned to Alpine climbing making the first British ascent of Camilotto Pelissier(8a/+) in the Dolomites.
At a very young age in a national comp Emma was the last to climb on a route in the finals, she set off looking like she was about to throw up and didn’t perform her best. This encouraged her to focus in on the mental skills to help deal with the pressure she put upon herself. In doing Psychology as part of her degree, and also working with a PHD student on mental tactics for competing she developed an interest in how much of an important role mental tactics have within sport . It is a key element to trying hard and having fun but also a wonderful part of this is figuring out what works for each individual person. She loves passing on the knowledge she has developed over many years of trial and error to help others improve.
