I work one-on-one with student-athletes and performing artists to clear the mental and neurological blocks that hold back physical performance. Grounded in behavioral science. Completely private.
Request a Consultation →Elite academic and athletic environments ask an enormous amount of people. When students don't have the inner tools to handle that pressure, the effects show up in ways that are very hard to coach around.
Overwhelming pressure leads to disengagement, mid-season slumps, and players choosing to leave — disrupting roster continuity and the investment your program has made in them.
High-stakes games, showcases, and juries can cause even the most talented performers to seize up — forcing their mechanics, over-thinking, and failing to access what they've spent years building.
A body can be medically cleared and still not feel safe to perform. The nervous system holds onto the memory of injury long after the tissue has healed — creating hesitation, compensation, and the risk of re-injury.
My work is built on four interlocking approaches, each targeting a specific layer of how the mind and body conspire to limit performance. They are designed to sit alongside — not replace — your existing athletic training and wellness support.
I guide athletes and performers into a state of absorbed, receptive focus — and use it to update the automatic habits that take over under pressure. The goal is simple: make sure that everything they've trained for shows up exactly when the stakes are highest.
I build personalised mental triggers — physical and cognitive — that let someone flush a mistake immediately and return to their best state within seconds. A bad play, a missed cue, a cracked note: none of them has to derail the rest of the performance.
Using targeted language and somatic techniques, I help the body release the fear response that locks in after injury or high-pressure failure. Working alongside physical trainers, I dissolve the unconscious bracing that keeps people from trusting themselves again.
Through careful, reflective conversation, I help each person identify precisely what their best state feels like from the inside — and build a personal, repeatable map for getting back there. It's as individual as the person themselves.
My practice is non-clinical. I don't practice medicine, psychotherapy, or counseling, and I don't diagnose or treat any condition. What I do is educational and generative — helping people access resources they already have but can't always reach.
That makes me a natural complement to your athletic trainers, sports medicine staff, and wellness counselors. No overlap, no liability concern, no institutional friction.
I spent three decades as a university professor and theatre director — working inside the very environments I now help people thrive in. I understand the culture, the hierarchy, the specific kind of pressure that builds in rehearsal rooms and locker rooms, and what it costs when people can't find their way through it.
That background led me to advanced training in the psychological and linguistic tools that create rapid, lasting change. I work at the level of the nervous system — with language, with the body, and with each person's own inner map of what it means to perform well.
My approach is personal, precise, and always one-on-one. I work on a referral-only basis to protect the privacy of everyone I work with. I was recently a featured guest on the Client Shifts podcast with James Tripp, discussing how these methods translate into real performance change.