Practice & Performance Coaching for Athletes & Musicians
ACT-informed coaching for athletes, musicians, coaches, and music teachers
People often come to sport and music because these activities bring energy, expression, discipline, connection, joy, and meaning. Over time, however, they can also become tangled with pressure, comparison, self-criticism, fear of mistakes, injury, burnout, or the feeling that every practice, rehearsal, lesson, match, or performance is another test.
ACT-informed coaching connects naturally with both sport and music, not because they are the same, but because both involve people who care deeply, practice repeatedly, meet mistakes in real time, and need to keep acting while difficult thoughts, emotions, memories, or body sensations are present.
My familiarity with sport and music is not identical. In sport, my background as a former competitive athlete, long-standing engagement with many sports, and academic research on women’s basketball often helps me follow the language, context, and pressures that athletes and coaches bring into the conversation. In music, my familiarity is more grounded in adult learning, long-term practice, confidence, frustration, and personal musical development than in formal music theory or instrument-specific expertise. In both areas, the coaching space does not replace technical instruction, sport coaching, music teaching, therapy, medical care, or other specialist support.
Across both areas, coaching focuses on the human and psychological side of practice, pressure, mistakes, recovery, motivation, communication, and meaningful growth — helping people build a more flexible, sustainable, and values-based relationship with what they do.
Book an Appointment
To begin, you can book a free introductory conversation. In that first meeting, we can understand what brings you here, whether this kind of coaching fits your situation, and which starting point may be most useful.
If you are contacting us as a coach, music teacher, school, club, team, ensemble, or organization, you are also welcome to write first so we can discuss the context and format before scheduling.
For Athletes & Coaches
Support for athletes, coaches, and teams working with pressure, mistakes, confidence, injury or transition, communication, motivation, and values-based growth in sport.
For Musicians & Music Teachers
Support for musicians and music teachers working with practice, confidence, self-criticism, performance pressure, recovery, creativity, and the joy and meaning of music.