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Performance Anxiety Therapy
Help with sports performance anxiety and the pressure to perform, whether it shows up on the field, in the studio, in the exam room, or in the boardroom.
When practice goes fine and the moment does not
You know how to do this. You have done it a hundred times. Then the whistle blows, or the lights come up, or the meeting starts, and your body decides otherwise.
Performance anxiety is not a sign that you are not good enough, or that you do not want it enough. It is what happens when the stakes get attached to your sense of self and your nervous system responds accordingly. The physiology is doing exactly what it evolved to do; it is simply reading the situation wrong.
Who this is for
Performance is bigger than sport
Athletes
Competing below your training level, tightening up in finals, or dreading the event you spent months preparing for.
Musicians and performers
Stage fright, audition nerves, and the particular cruelty of an art form where the hands have to cooperate.
Students
Exams, vivas, and auditions, where months of preparation get judged in a single sitting.
Professionals
Presentations, pitches, interviews, and the meetings that seem to decide how competent everyone thinks you are.
The work
Less white-knuckling, more capacity
We are not trying to make you stop caring, and we are not trying to eliminate nerves. Nerves are information, and usually they are a sign that something matters to you. An athlete with no adrenaline is not calm, they are disengaged.
The practical layer
Breathing and arousal regulation you can actually use under pressure, attention control so the mind stops auditing itself mid-performance, pre-performance routines that are reliable rather than superstitious, and imagery that rehearses recovery from mistakes instead of only rehearsing perfection.
The layer underneath
Where the pressure came from. What failure has come to mean about you as a person. Whose voice the inner critic is actually using, because it is rarely your own.
This is the part that separates lasting change from a coping technique that works until the stakes get high enough. Both layers matter, and we work them together.
Under pressure
Practice is not the problem
If you are excellent in training and lost at the meet, the skill is already there. What changes between the two is what we work on.
What progress looks like
It is rarely a straight line
The nerves get named
You stop fighting the feeling and start recognizing what it is and what it is asking for. That alone lowers the volume.
The tools get reliable
Skills practised in low stakes settings start holding up in higher ones. This is the part that requires repetition rather than insight.
The meaning shifts
Performance stops being a referendum on your worth. You still care, and the caring stops costing as much.
and back around, as often as it takes
Performance anxiety
Common questions
Nerves before something that matters are normal and often useful. It becomes worth treating when it reliably costs you performance, when you dread the event for days, or when you start avoiding opportunities to protect yourself from the feeling.
You can perform like you practice
Let us talk about what happens for you in the moment, and what to do about it.
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