Discover effective psychological treatment for performance anxiety at Own Your ADHD.

 

No two people have the same performance anxiety. There is no one technique, no one-size-fits-all 'answer'. Much of the advice given to performers by other performers and directors about performance anxiety is NOT FOR performance anxiety. It's for healthy nervousness. So it doesn't work. Additionally, if you have neurodiverse characteristics like ADHD or autism, you may need a very different set of strategies altogether.

 

Performance anxiety is different to healthy nerves. It's more pervasive, more persistent and it doesn't contribute to a great performance the way healthy nerves do. Often it requires a lot more than breathing, good eating and positive thinking to deal with it.

 

As  a clinical psychologist Rob offers personalized approaches including CBT, DBT, RO-DBT, and clinical hypnosis. He has twenty years of experience in clinical psychology and currently works treating anxiety disorders, OCD and managing ADHD. He has treated and coached many performers over the years including professional musicians,  music producers, gymnasts, ballet dancers, actors and CEOs of multi-billion dollar companies. 

Rob has been in a number of performance acts, vocal groups and choirs over the years, supported undergraduate students in BA Drama, provided backing vocals for workshop recording under West End directors, provided welfare input to young actors on stage, and has written scripts and music for amateur/community performance. Rob has also completed training in Estill level 1 'figures for voice control', level 2 'figure combinations for six voice qualities' and is completing his voice figure proficiency certificate.

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Rob has a background himself with anxiety disorder, OCD, BDD and ADHD. He has had to overcome in adulthood the obstacles to performance that prevented exploration of these arts in his youth. He is an inclusive ally of trans and NB people, the founder of the Psychological Society for Inclusive Intersectional and Queer Communities, and a former chair of section of the British Psychological Society.

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