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Overthinking beforehand
Anticipating things going wrong long before the event, replaying scenarios and rehearsing worst cases until the moment itself feels heavier than it is.
Performance Anxiety & Public Speaking
When Pressure Changes How You Feel
Performance anxiety can affect you in ways that people around you may never fully realise.
Book a free consultationThe Experience
Composed on the outside. Under real pressure within.
You may appear capable, confident and experienced externally — while internally feeling intense pressure, self-doubt or anxiety whenever attention is placed on you.
For some, this shows up in presentations, meetings or public speaking. For others it arrives more quietly — through driving anxiety, a fear of being judged, social pressure, or situations where you feel expected to perform, speak or stay in control.
Even when you logically know you are capable, your mind and body can still react as though something unsafe is happening. It is frustrating, and it is emotionally exhausting.
How It Shows Up
Three ways performance anxiety takes hold
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Heightened self-awareness
Becoming intensely aware of yourself the moment attention shifts onto you — noticing your voice, your body, and how you might be perceived.
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The mind–body reaction
Knowing you are capable while your body reacts as though something is unsafe — the racing, the tension, the response you can't simply think your way out of.
Feeling consumed by pressure
Over time, performance anxiety can begin affecting much more than the situation itself — many people start carrying anxiety long before events, until the weight is present far more than the moment ever warrants.
A Result-Based Approach
Settling the response, not just talking around it.
The focus is on how your mind and body respond under pressure — settling the automatic anxiety response so that attention, presentations, speaking and being watched stop feeling unsafe.
Work is targeted directly at this issue rather than general talk, so that change happens where it matters. The aim is simple and specific: to help you feel as composed internally as you already appear externally.
Book a free consultationCredentials
Qualified, registered and specialist care
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National Council for Hypnotherapy
Professional body membership
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MNCH (Registered Member)
Registered member in good standing
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HPD — Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma
Accredited practitioner qualification
Sessions available in London and online worldwide.
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Let's talk about how the pressure feels for you
Focused, results-based support for performance anxiety and public speaking — in London and worldwide online.
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