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MORE THAN PERFORMANCE. COACHING FOR THE WHOLE ATHLETE.

Athletes are expected to be unbreakable...

...But behind the stats and seasons, many carry more than anyone sees with injury, identity loss, pressure, or experiences that training alone can’t fix.


OKTO was built by athletes to bring support to the mental side of sport. We offer coaching that focuses on mindset, identity, and recovery through tools grounded in psychology, recovery science, and lived experience.


Support that understands the stakes and the athlete behind them.

our approach

High-Performance Coaching for the Whole Athlete

OKTO Athletics delivers structured, performance-focused coaching that integrates sport psychology, recovery science, and lived athletic experience. Our work is designed to support the full scope of the athlete experience: as a competitor, a leader, and a human being.


Elite athletes are often treated as assets. But the pressures they face extend far beyond competition. Identity loss, injury, disordered eating, trauma, and transition are not outliers. They are part of the lived reality for many high-level performers. OKTO was created to address that reality while staying within the boundaries of coaching.


We focus on three primary domains:

  • Mindset: the cognitive and emotional skills required to maintain clarity, composure, and focus under the demands of life and sport
  • Identity: structured development of self-awareness, values, and long-term direction beyond sport
  • Recovery: systems that support psychological sustainability and long-range performance


Our coaching is trauma-aware, ethically grounded, and built for the demands of high-performance environments. We recognize that elite sport does not exist in a vacuum. Many of the athletes we work with carry more than pressure, including injury recovery, identity loss, disordered eating, or trauma.


Our work remains within the scope of coaching, not clinical treatment or therapy. When additional support is needed, we coordinate with licensed providers to ensure continuity and care.


We support performance. Never at the expense of the person behind it.

OKTO Founder

Amelia “Millie” Tanner

Co-founder & Lead Mental Performance Coach
B.S. in Coaching and Performance Psychology
M.A. in Sport and Performance Psychology


A former professional cyclist and NCAA Division I rower, Tanner has worked across Division I coaching and recruitment, the front office of professional sports, and higher education.

Her structured, athlete-centered approach supports elite performers navigating mindset, leadership, transition, and recovery. She regularly works non-clinically with athletes facing identity loss, injury, disordered eating, PTSD, and psychological strain.


In addition to coaching, Tanner speaks and facilitates on athlete identity, performance pressure, and education around eating disorders and PTSD in sport.


Her work is grounded in the belief that competitive success and long-term well-being should not be in conflict.

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OKTO provides non-clinical mental performance coaching and is not therapy or medical treatment.

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