Performance Coaching (psychological)
Andy McCann is a Professor of Psychology. He is also a Performance Coach who works with performers as well as professionals in sports, business and politics, using applied performance psychology and evidence based resilience focused strategies. He is a Professor of Psychology within the Faculty of Health, Psychology & Social Care at Manchester Metropolitan University and has expertise in helping performance professionals manage conditions including performance-related anxiety, perfectionism, stress, sleep disturbance and bruxism. He advises clients about media and social media, resilience, leadership and working with others, managing change and new challenges, roles and environments, work-life balance and clarifying personal values.
Psychotherapist, performance coaching and hypnotherapist.
As well as being a fully trained CBT therapist I am also a professional musician and I understand many of the pressures facing musicians and performers. Having originally trained as a musician I studied a Masters Degree in psychology for musicians and I decided to become a therapist myself. I became a performance coach at Trinity College of Music and regularly treat musicians, singers and actors from many areas of the industry including London Orchestras and West end Musicals.
Helen Brice is an experienced psychotherapist, counsellor and skills coach who worked for 17 years in the commercial music industry as a performer, music producer & manager before going on to set up a psychotherapeutic service for performers, Stimmung Therapy. Where appropriate, clients can access the Stimmung Therapy Programme, delivered together with Miranda Jackson, who is also a BAPAM Registered therapist. Initial assessment is followed by a combination of trauma/existential/autogenic work, and skills coaching and behaviour therapy for breaking old habits and creating new ones.
Andy Evans is a specialist in performance psychology, coaching and careers work, with over thirty years experience working with performers, particularly musicians. He was a Performance Psychologist at BIMM International Popular Music Academy, and Career Coach to Dancers Career Development for 15 years. Andy has published extensively on performance psychology, his latest book being ‘Secrets of Performing Confidence’ (2013, Bloomsbury). All the typical issues of performers are covered in sessions – creativity, career enhancement, managing performance anxiety, peak performance, auditioning, practice and rehearsal strategies, motivation, stress, burnout, confidence, perfectionism.
Sport & Performance Psychologist and coach with extensive experience helping creative practitioners with problems including depression, anxiety, performance trauma, addiction, eating disorders, burnout, injury, self-harm, bullying, PTSD, relationship breakdown. Practises in Bristol and also provides online sessions.
