Welcome!
The stage demands excellence, but the mind can be the toughest critic. When performance anxiety whispers, creativity hides, or the weight of perfectionism dims your spark, you need more than standard advice. You need an ally who speaks the language of both psychology and performance. I’d love to be that ally for you!
I am here for you to help you:
🔥Turn nervous energy into powerful presence - so you can step on stage excited, not terrified.
🔥Rewrite self-sabotaging thoughts and replace them with unbreakable positive self-belief.
🔥Bounce back faster from setbacks - because rejection doesn’t have to crush your confidence.
🔥Perform at your peak, consistently - without burning out or losing yourself.
I offer Masterclasses and Programmes for stage performers: musicians, singers, actors, and other high-achieving creatives.
Imagine if you could:
✔ Perform with effortless confidence - no more paralysing fear or anxiety.
✔ Silence your inner critic and break free from problematic perfectionism.
✔ Stop freezing, blanking, or forgetting - stay present and in control.
✔ Build unshakable resilience and mental stamina in an unpredictable industry.
✔ Rediscover the joy of performing and maintain passion for your craft- so you can thrive on and off stage.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin
Welcome!
I'm Dr Maja Jankowska
I'm a Clinical and Counselling Psychologist whose goal is to help you - stage performing artists & high-achieving creatives implement psychology-backed mental skills, so you can perform with consistency, command attention, and thrive under pressure - without burnout or self-sabotage.
I help you safeguard your mental well-being and passion for your craft so that you can maintain longevity and resilience in one of the toughest industries.
Read more about my passion for your world and my expertise in the About section.
If you're looking for:
- Free helpful resources and online masterclasses
- Want to understand why you're experiencing performance anxiety, self-doubt, imposter syndrome and loud inner critic & why they are not going away, and
- Want to conquer stage anxiety, silence self-doubt, and unlock peak performance, while staying mentally strong, resilient and fulfilled on and off stage or
- You'd like to join one of my online courses
then I've got something that was created just for you,
Dr Maja
Ways We Can
Work Together
The Stage Fright Shift
In this Foundational Course you will discover how your performance anxiety started, what keeps it going & why it's not resolving with time or audition and stage practice.
You will be guided to understand the origins and maintenance of your fear by a Clinical Psychologist specialising in Stage Performers’ mental health.
You will learn how to build your own unique roadmap as you hear the exact process & system a Clinical Psychologist uses to understand the origins and maintenance of stage fear.
By the end of this course you will:
- Understand how your anxiety began and why it isn't going away with time alone
- Learn proven psychology-based tools to start re-wiring your nervous system
- Decrease your brain’s reactivity
- Learn the foundational somatic & cognitive techniques to help you ground yourself when anxiety begins to spike
- Build your resilience and unshakeable stage confidence
You have access to online videos (small & bitesize) & a detailed guidebook which supports you every step of the way as you discover what's keeping you stuck.
🟠The password protected secure platform provides 24/7 access, so you can access your course at a time to suit you.
🟠Doors Open 4 times per year
🟠Join my private email list to be the first to know when this course next opens.
The Spotlight Switch
A transformative psychology-based programme for performers who want to conquer stage anxiety, silence self-doubt, and unlock peak performance, while staying mentally strong, resilient and fulfilled on and off stage.
As a member of the Spotlight Switch Programme you are guided through Dr Maja Jankowska's step-by-step Stage Performer Framework (SPF) and in the process you will learn:
- How to re-claim your confidence and ability to command attention on stage
- How to re-claim your excitement and joy in auditions, rehearsals and performances
- How to deal with self-critical voice and relentless (problematic) perfectionism
- How to deal with freezing/ blanking/ forgetting your words/ lines, notes or cords
- How to build resilience and mental stamina in the industry that can feel brutally unstable
- How to process trauma from past failures, humiliation, rejection or criticism
… and more!
🟢With 24/7 access to the course materials and video guides you can watch at time to suit your lifestyle
🟢Q&A support with Dr Jankowska herself
✅Join my private email list to be the first to know when this course next opens
Other Ways to Work With Me
One to One Support
I draw from a diverse toolkit of evidence-based therapies - including EMDR, CBT, and trauma-informed approaches - to create a personalised treatment plan just for you. We will collaborate on a path that harnesses your strengths and empowers you towards positive change, always guided by your needs and goals. You can read more about therapy I offer here https://expansionpsychology.com
Script Consultations
I offer psychological consultancy for scripts and productions, applying clinical expertise to ensure authentic mental health portrayal, nuanced characterisation, and emotional depth. I work directly with creators to elevate narrative and/ or support stage performer wellbeing, bringing a vital layer of psychological authenticity to their creative work.
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