Performance Coaching for Actors, Musicians and Sportspeople: Achieve Your Full Potential
Dr Tracy King
Chartered Clinical Psychologist
Are you an actor, athlete, or creative professional looking to elevate your performance?
Whether you're preparing for a major role, competition, or dealing with the pressure of constant performance, performance coaching can help you tap into your strengths, manage anxiety, and unlock your full potential.
I’ve worked with footballers, dancers, actors, golfers, gymnasts, synchronised swimmers, singers, photographers, and film production professionals to help them overcome mental blocks, manage performance anxiety, and achieve excellence in their craft.
What is Performance Coaching?
Performance coaching is a specialiased form of coaching designed to help individuals in high-performance fields, such as sports , creative careers and the performing arts, enhance their mental and emotional resilience. It provides tools for optimising focus, managing stress, and maintaining peak performance under pressure.
Performance isn’t just about physical or technical skills—it’s also about mental strength, self-belief, and emotional balance.
Performance coaching helps you:
- Overcome performance anxiety.
- Build mental resilience and confidence.
- Strengthen focus, motivation, and discipline.
- Break through psychological barriers and self-doubt.
- Develop pre-performance routines and mental strategies for success.
Why a Jungian Approach May Be Helpful
A Jungian approach to performance coaching goes beyond surface-level techniques, diving deep into the unconscious mind to explore the archetypes and inner narratives that drive your behaviour, fears, and motivations. By understanding and working with these deeper layers, you can achieve more sustainable and transformative results.
Understanding internal archetypes like the Hero, Warrior, or Trickster may shape how you approach challenges, victories, or setbacks. By identifying and working with these inner forces, you can channel their energy more effectively in your performance.
The Shadow represents suppressed fears, doubts, or desires that may hold you back. Integrating your Shadow allows you to move past self-sabotage and access greater confidence and creativity.
We move towards individuation which is a process helps you become more aligned with your true self, allowing you to perform with authenticity, emotional depth, and power.
By addressing both the conscious and unconscious aspects of your personality, Jungian coaching offers a holistic, deeply personal approach to mastering your craft.
Managing Performance Anxiety with Psychological Techniques
Many performers and athletes experience performance anxiety, which can prevent them from delivering their best work. This anxiety might manifest as stage fright, fear of failure, or perfectionism. In addition to Jungian approaches, I integrate evidence-based psychological techniques to help manage and reduce anxiety, including:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Helps to reframe negative thinking patterns that fuel performance anxiety, replacing them with positive, empowering beliefs.
Mindfulness and Relaxation Techniques: These strategies calm the nervous system, allowing you to stay grounded and focused in high-pressure situations.
Hypnotherapy, Visualization and Imagery: By mentally rehearsing success and positive outcomes, you can reduce fear and improve confidence.
Breathwork, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing and Somatic Techniques. These body-based techniques help you regulate physical symptoms of anxiety, such as rapid heartbeat, shallow breathing, and muscle tension, allowing you to stay relaxed and focused.
Why Choose Performance Coaching?
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the demands of your profession or are struggling to meet your full potential, performance coaching offers a structured, supportive approach to:
Overcome mental barriers and release the fear of failure.
Cultivate self-confidence and step into your role with clarity and purpose.
Master the art of peak performance in any situation, from auditions to competitions.
By combining Jungian depth work with psychological techniques for anxiety management, performance coaching provides the tools you need to thrive under pressure, helping you achieve the success and fulfillment you deserve.
"Performance coaching is about more than just honing your physical skills; it's about nurturing your mind, understanding your fears, and building resilience so you can step into every
challenge with clarity and confidence."
Dr Tracy
Ready to Elevate your Performance?
.Contact us today to book a free introductory to see if a Performance Coaching may be helpful for you.
"As a psychologist, I believe that true peak performance comes from integrating the mind and body. Through compassionate coaching, we work to transform anxiety and self-doubt into strength,
helping you unlock your full potential."
Dr Tracy
Dr Tracy King
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