Performance Anxiety Help

It can happen to any of us at any time. In fact it may be a long pattern that you have noticed going all the way back to childhood. Performance anxiety can bring heart palpitaions, nausea, trembling, sweating, shakey voice, loss of memory and a need to escape.

This is the fight or flight syndrome kicking in and it seems that no matter how hard you try to be calm, something else happens and you turn into this quivering wreck. Some people lose sleep over their worries about the task they have been asked to do.

History may play a major role in how you think and feel about giving some performance. You might recall getting a question wrong in class when you were a child and the whole class laughing at you. You might have been unfairly judged by a teacher who embarrassed you in front of your peers.

Maybe you just didn’t prepare well enough for a speech you knew you had to give and because of your lack of preparation your nerves got the better of you. Now you dread even being asked to perform in front of others.

Performance anxiety refers to talking to any size audience, teaching, training others, as well as the performances given by actors, muscians, singers and vocalists. Each and any one of us may have had some anxiety before taking the leading role in a workshop, play, musical, radio show, newspaper interview, wedding or funeral speech, to give a few examples.

In a way, whether your performance anxiety is classed as a fear or phobia is irrelevant to you. You know it is unpleasant and can ruin your world undermining your confidence and affecting your other tasks and even your relationships.

Hypnotherapy in Derbyshire runs a one-to-one programme to help you overcome any fears and anxieties and to feel calmer and in more control. You can begin to be excited again by your speaking engagements, announcing, voice overs, singing, acting or broadcasting rather than fearful of them. Your relaxed with self hypnsois demeanour can lead to improvements in your vocal technique and take your abilities to a different level.

Steven Harold, the Derbyshire hypnotherapist has helped many people just like you to release their anxieties and gain self-belief and healthy self confidence.

Now being based in Derbyshire he has helped many speakers, announcers, singers, trainers and broadcasters from the well-known UK based organisations, including television companies and radio stations. He also helps anyone who needs to attend and contribute to meetings at work or give presentations.

You can take advantage of a free initial consultation, without obligation, and find out more about how hypnotherapy helps any kind of performance anxiety.

Corey Newell

10:02 13 Mar 20

Steve Is a very friendly and professional Hypnotherapist and has helped to get my anxiety under control and given me the tools to deal with it in the future. I recommend his services to anyone struggling with anxiety.

Gillian Duncan

15:50 21 May 19

Steve has helped me to help myself, to manage both over thinking and stress. I recommend him to anyone and will not hesitate to see him again if needed. Thank you Steve.

George Lomas

09:28 25 Apr 19

Steve is a warm and caring individual and I would highly recommend him

Mike Photogmike

17:29 11 Sep 18

I met Steve Harold for help some years back after the most traumatic event of waking from a coma and finding my body had been crushed to some degree in a very near fatal head on road accident. To say I was a mess, is a massive understatement. Police were told that night to expect a maximum of 2 hours of life with how I was! Everything that mattered, from career, to relationship, to physical abilities were marred or gone. And I had to survive the onslaught of extensive post trauma and a 5 year legal battle over losses and blame. Steven was one crucial element in a very emotional rebuilding process that moved me to where I am today. His many professional skills and encouraged appointments built my mind and spirit to a place which kept me surviving, as the years to gain my innocence alone would leave many crumbling. To anyone who can relate to this, Steve's help was a key element in the early rebuilding stages that has made me smile at life again, had me keep going through something that seemed like an eternity to go through. Weirdly, I am doing things with my life again, I would never had thought possible, from the physical to work interests. I have beaten all medical prognosis expectations. One thing this has taught me is that the first step is always with the person it is about (you) and if you need to 'lean' on people such as Steve Harold, rest assured, more steps to where you need to be in your life will come with his standard and coached direction. I am a mark of his abilities to help an individual. And if ever I start smoking, I'll use him too to stop! Thank you as always Steven.

William M

13:32 22 Jun 18

I tried to give up smoking many times, doing the usual methods (read the book, abstained&failed) and never really gave up, after a beer I'd be smoking again. I then met Harold who tailored a session based on my needs and after one session I gave up, completely. Prior to my session I was a sceptic, however my success and the subsequent success of others that I know that went to Harold, proves that his method and process works. I would highly recommend seeing him.

Mary Yiannouzis

13:04 18 Sep 17

I had been smoking cigarettes for 25 years when I made the decision that, even though I liked smoking, I wanted to stop. And that was the problem - I liked it, I just didn't want to do it anymore, and therefore I didn't feel I had the willpower to stop. A friend recommended Steve to me, the timing was perfect, so I booked in one session. I smoked all the way there in the car, I left, I felt no different, I didn't even particularly feel like I had made a change, but I threw away the remainder of my packet of cigarettes and I have never smoked again - that was 18 months ago. It has been EASY. I haven't had one moment of wanting a cigarette. I don't know why anyone would put themselves through trying to do it on their own when one session with Steve makes it SO easy. Steve helped me change my life - I could not recommend him more.