Sports performance anxiety
In training it's automatic. In competition something intervenes — a hesitation that wasn't there, a movement you've done ten thousand times that suddenly requires thinking about. Athletes often describe it as their body being taken over.
Blocks, yips, and the thing you can't un-think
Sometimes it attaches to one specific movement — the serve, the throw, the dismount. That kind of block rarely responds to more repetition, because repetition isn't what installed it. Usually there's a moment underneath: an injury, a failure with an audience, a coach.
How we work
EMDR and Flash process the originating moment so it stops firing in competition. Brainspotting works with where the activation lives in the body — it came out of work with athletes and performers and it suits this well.
EFT gives you something to use in the warm-up.
Realistic
I'm not a sports psychologist and I don't do performance coaching. What I do is the trauma and anxiety layer underneath a block. If what you need is technique or mental-skills training, a coach is the right call — sometimes both together is.
Athletes come in for
- A block on one specific movement
- Training form that vanishes in competition
- Return-to-play anxiety after an injury
- A public failure that still replays
- Pressure from selection, scholarships, or a coach
More reps haven't fixed it because reps aren't the issue.
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