As a performance psychologist, I work with athletes, performers, and driven individuals to understand how attention, emotion, and physiology interact. This understanding supports you to work with anxiety, self-criticism, and the patterns that shape how you perform and function, strengthening your capacity to engage in what matters most to you.
More Than Skills and Preparation
Performing well isn’t just about technical skill or preparation. It’s about how you respond when demands increase: where attention goes, how the body responds, and what guides your effort.
How Performance Psychology Helps
Performance psychology isn’t about pushing harder or thinking more positively. It’s about understanding the mental, emotional, and physiological processes that shape how you perform and function, and building genuine capacity to work with them.
For people who take their work or performance seriously, this often means:
- Understanding how anxiety affects attention, decision‑making, and effort, and learning to respond rather than react
- Understanding and working with the inner critic and thoughts that can undermine confidence
- Identifying and working through long‑standing patterns such as perfectionism, fear of failure, or people‑pleasing that shape your relationship with performance
- Processing past experiences that may still be influencing how you show up in your work or performance
- Reconnecting with what matters most in your work or performance beyond outcomes and external validation
- Developing a more sustainable relationship with performance, guided by values rather than fear
This work often sits at the intersection of performance psychology and clinical psychology, where patterns shaped by anxiety, identity, and past experience can influence how people perform and engage with what matters to them.
My Approach
I work at the intersection of performance psychology and clinical psychology, which means I bring both to every session.
Before becoming a psychologist, I competed in cycling at club, state, national, and World Masters level. I understand what it takes to train and compete seriously, and I also understand from the inside how anxiety, self‑doubt, and pressure can narrow attention and quietly work against performance.
Working with a psychologist changed how I related to those experiences. That shift now shapes how I work with clients.
My focus isn’t on removing anxiety or manufacturing confidence. It’s on helping you build genuine psychological capacity: to stay engaged when it’s difficult, to relate differently to self‑critical thoughts, and to perform in ways that reflect who you are and what matters to you, not just what you’re afraid of losing.
I draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Schema Therapy, and EMDR — evidence‑based approaches well suited to the complexity of performance, anxiety, and identity‑related challenges.
Who I Work With
I work with athletes, performers, adolescents, and adults who take their work or performance seriously and want to understand and work with the psychological factors that shape how they function and perform.
- Athletes from community to elite levels
- Performing artists including musicians, dancers, actors, and creative professionals
- Adolescents navigating performance, identity, and the pressures of school, sport, or creative pursuits
- Professionals and leaders managing demanding roles and workplace expectations
- Students navigating academic pressure and examination stress
- Adults working through trauma, anxiety, or patterns that are affecting how they function and engage with life
Each client’s goals are unique, and therapy is tailored to support performance and wellbeing in a way that aligns with what matters most to you.
If performance matters to you and so does your psychological wellbeing, this work may be a good fit.
Getting Started
Sessions are available in person in Albert Park, Melbourne, and online across Australia.
If you are considering this work, you are welcome to get in touch to discuss whether it may be a useful fit for your current needs.
