Performance coaches for creatives
Compare 36 performance coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are musicians and performers, high performers, athletes and sports and performance anxiety. They most often work with creatives, founders and business owners and professionals. Most charge $90 to $210 per hour or session.
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Anna Hennings
Anna Hennings is a mental performance coach who works with athletes, performers, and executives. She holds a master's degree in sport psychology and is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant. She is based in Portland, Oregon, and coaches online across the country. Many of her clients are volleyball players. She teaches skills for handling nerves, staying focused, and building confidence, from the court to the boardroom.
Chelsea Tanner
Chelsea Tanner is a flutist and mindset coach who helps musicians build confidence and move past imposter syndrome. She is based in Los Angeles. She has spoken at over 30 conferences and universities on mindset tools, performance anxiety and practicing. She hosts a podcast with over 80 episodes on musician mindset. She also teaches flute, both online and in the Los Angeles and Long Beach area.
Jonté LeGras
Jonté LeGras is a Los Angeles-based acting coach who helps actors with auditions, self-tapes, scene preparation and on-camera work. He is a SAG-AFTRA actor with more than 20 years in television, film and theatre. Director Ava DuVernay picked him to be the on-set acting coach for the youngest lead actor during the five-month shoot of Disney's A Wrinkle in Time. He works with young performers, developing actors and experienced pros.
Laura Gibert
Laura Gibert is a confidence and creativity coach for artists, musicians and singers. She is also a professional opera singer, a lyric coloratura soprano who has performed across Europe. She holds a psychology degree from the University of Barcelona and a master's in voice performance from the Royal Academy of Music. She coaches online and works with professionals, students and amateurs on creative blocks and limiting thoughts.
Maria Bruce
Maria Bruce is a high-performance coach who works with athletes, artists, founders and professionals. She is a medical doctor and licensed psychotherapist. Her work looks at how pressure, decision-making and personal dynamics affect each other. She has coached Olympic athletes and award-nominated artists, plus people in entertainment, beauty and finance. She founded Optimalist Health and wrote the Mental Training series. Her coaching combines applied psychology with physiological regulation.
Melanie Golding
Melanie Golding is a coach and qualified counsellor who works with musicians and performing artists. She also coaches on anxiety and autism life coaching, and works with teens. She has spent more than 30 years in the music industry as a singer-songwriter and toured the United States and the UK with her albums. She wrote the book 'Facing My Own Music' about the effects of the music industry. She helps artists rebuild confidence and a sense of self.
Bree Sutton
Bree Sutton is an athletic performance mindset coach who helps athletes remove the barriers that hold back their best play. She uses a technique called brainspotting to work on brain patterns tied to past negative events, such as a hard fall or a concussion. She is a licensed mental health therapist and a certified mindset coach. Her coaching is not therapy. She also works with actors and performers.
Guy Camilleri
Guy Camilleri is an acting coach and the founder of RAW Acting Studio in Los Angeles. He coaches actors, writers, directors and other creatives, both in classes and one-on-one. He has worked with performers at every level, including Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe nominees. He trained for seven years at The Gene Frankel Theatre in New York City. He is also a working actor with film, TV, ad and stage credits.
Whitney Uland
Whitney Uland is a celebrity coach who helps actors, artists, creatives and influencers build fame. She is also an actor, writer and filmmaker with a BFA in musical theatre from a New York program. She signed with a top Hollywood agency after she learned to build what she calls Celebrity Energy. She now teaches that skill through courses, a 6-month mentorship and private coaching. She hosts the How to Be Famous podcast.
Sarah Arnold-Hall
Sarah Arnold-Hall is a high performance coach who helps entrepreneurs, creatives and athletes reach their goals. She holds a psychology and philosophy degree and became a Certified High Performance Coach in 2018. She has coached an Olympic athlete. She has run her own business full time since 2020 and built it past six figures a year. She is now working toward a seven figure business and shares her own goals in public.
Kika Cicmanec
Kika Cicmanec is a life and mental performance coach who works with athletes, actors, artists, directors and other entertainment professionals. Kika is a former high-level athlete and holds a PCC credential from the ICF. Kika also holds a certified tennis coach credential and master's degrees in performing arts and psychology. The focus is on building a stronger mindset that leads to lasting change in performance and daily life.
Amy Schloerb
Amy Schloerb is a life coach who helps actors with mindset, confidence and mindfulness. He has worked as a professional actress for 20 years in TV, film and commercials. He also produced his own award-winning web series. He coaches under the name The Aligned Actor and uses mindfulness and neuro-linguistic programming. His work centers on auditions, self-doubt and the ups and downs of an acting career.
Christian Hales
Christian Hales coaches musicians on music school prep, professional orchestra auditions, and career moves out of music. He is a double bassist who won the Principal Bassist job at the Charleston Symphony and later moved into tech. He took 20 professional orchestra auditions and was a finalist at the San Francisco, Seattle, North Carolina and Baltimore symphonies. He also taught bass as an adjunct professor at the College of Charleston.
John McKay
John McKay is a confidence and creativity coach who helps artists, musicians, writers and filmmakers. He has coached since 2016. Before that, he was a lifelong musician who played in bands, toured across the USA, owned a mobile recording studio and promoted concerts. He helps clients trust their own wisdom so they can live and create with more joy, make strong work and build career success.
Kate Mansfield
Kate Mansfield is a dating and relationship coach in the UK. She helps high achievers, including leaders, artists, celebrities and athletes, with love, confidence and performance. She has coached for 15 years and advised corporations and high profile clients. Before coaching she worked in artist and celebrity management with A-list talent. She is also a couples and family therapist.
Kate Stirling
Kate Stirling is a life coach in Soho, London who helps people build confidence, mindset, wellbeing and energy. She has coached for 22 years and has worked with hundreds of people in high performance, health, fitness and the creative industries. She is also a professional actor and speaker. She runs corporate workshops and hosts the podcast Club Thrive. Her clients are mostly actors, creatives, entrepreneurs, mums and coaches.
Kevin Murphy
Kevin Murphy is a life, performance and relationship coach in Schenectady, New York. He helps driven professionals, partnerships and teams who feel stuck or are going through change. He has worked since 1996 as a counselor, therapist, supervisor, director, trainer, consultant and professor. He brings that background into coaching, and he states that his work is coaching and not therapy. He also teaches new clinicians.
Sam Pittman
Sam Pittman is a life coach and run coach who helps people build confidence, make career shifts and bring joy into training. Clients include college professors, single parents, shy adults and runners at every level, from first-timers to marathoners. Sam draws on a background as a writer and athlete. Sessions use visualization, storyboarding, self-talk revision and writing exercises. Sam also worked in higher education and once apprenticed as a baker.
Abbey Woodcock
Abbey Woodcock is a business coach and creativity coach who helps creative freelancers run their work like professional businesses. She is a direct response copywriter who has written sales pages and emails for some of the biggest names online. She founded The Freelance Co-op, a group that gives freelancers legal templates, scripts, and expert help. She teaches systems for growing a freelance business and building an in-house content team that matches your voice.
Emily Maguire
Emily Maguire is a career coach and business consultant for people in TV, film, media and the creative industries. She helps students, graduates and professionals find work, change careers and grow small businesses. She has over 20 years of mentoring experience and has delivered over 1,000 hours of coaching worldwide. Her past work spans retail, banking, healthcare and education. She also offers a mentoring program built for actors.
Laura Buckles
Laura Buckles is a life and business coach who helps creatives, entrepreneurs, small business owners and professionals handle pressure. She spent more than 25 years as a professional actor, producer and writer. She also ran digital media for the mobile app Twrrl. Her coaching uses neuroscience and nervous system regulation to build focus and steady decision making. She also offers on-camera coaching for interviews, speaking events and live performances.
Marc Stoecker
Marc Stoecker is a career, life and performance coach in Washington, DC. He works mostly with mid- to late-career professionals, leaders and creative changemakers who are going through a transition. He calls his method Embodied Mental Fitness coaching. It blends reflective dialogue, mental fitness practices and experiential learning. He is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and a Certified Positive Intelligence Coach. He also brings over 24 years of learning and leadership experience to his work.
Meg Kissack
She helps them get unstuck, find clarity and build momentum on their projects. Her coaching style centers on compassion, accountability and strategy. She hosts The Daily Pep! Podcast, a daily show for unconventional women. She also offers a 1:1 Brain Huddle session and a 100 day online group program called One Woman Band Club. She has coached for over a decade.
Nicole Miller McDaniel
Nicole Miller McDaniel is a career and performance coach in the Atlanta area. She helps high-achieving professionals, performing artists, athletes and founders who feel stuck, burned out or unfulfilled. Nicole is a licensed professional counselor and a Board Certified Coach. Her coaching is directive and solution-focused. She uses psychology-backed strategies to move clients from inaction to action. Sessions run 50 minutes and can be virtual or in person on request.
Paul Rivas
Paul Rivas is an independent educational consultant who teaches study skills and time management to students from middle school to grad school. He runs SMITH RIVAS in Saint Leonard, Maryland. He wrote the book This Book Will Not Be on the Test and built an online course called Better Grades in Less Time. He works with students with ADHD, learning differences, athletes, creatives and high achievers.
Stephanie Benfield
Stephanie Benfield is a performance and life coach for creative, introverted and neurodivergent people. She works with clients on autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalculia. She is a Professional Certified Coach with over 1000 coaching hours and a Certified Business Strategist. Her sessions help clients cut through the noise, find focus and motivation, and take clear next steps, with light accountability between them.
Cora Flora
Cora Flora is a transformational and creativity coach who works with healers, creatives and spiritual teachers. She is also a musician, and she brings sound, singing and card readings into her sessions. Clients can add ceremony facilitation to their coaching packages. Her sessions start with the client's intention and a prayer. Then they move into emotions, energy, body and life. She also gives graphic design support to some clients.
Jeremy Harper
Jeremy Harper is a technology and music production coach. He helps solopreneurs, professionals and creatives feel confident with the tools they use. He has over 10 years in IT and nearly two decades in audio, video and creative technology. He holds a music degree and certifications from Apple, Microsoft and Cisco. He has worked in both the UK and Australia. His goal in technology coaching is to make himself unnecessary, so clients solve their own problems.
Jennifer Ziegler
Jennifer Ziegler is a burnout and creativity coach in Illinois. She helps therapists, entrepreneurs and artists of all kinds clear creative blocks. Her main tool is Brainspotting, which she combines with narrative theory, systemic thinking, polyvagal training and hypnotherapeutic methods. She holds credentials as a Brainspotting practitioner, a hypnotherapy practitioner and a HeartMath provider. Her goal for clients is to restore flow and joy in their work.
Chen Zhang
Chen Zhang is a life, performance and leadership coach in Jersey City, New Jersey. Chen works with thoughtful, high-achieving people who look successful on paper but feel something is missing. Sessions focus on clearing inner blocks, building self-trust and choosing aligned action. Chen combines mindset tools based on neuroscience with a spiritually grounded view of purpose. Chen trained through iPEC and holds a BA, MA and PhD.
Mark Wilkes
Mark Wilkes is an anxiety coach and life coach in Utah. He works with athletes, musicians and students. His focus areas are anxiety management, performance psychology and existential crisis. He is a practicing psychotherapist in his state and holds an MA in marriage and family therapy. He is also certified in Advanced Ericksonian Clinical Hypnosis. He helps people who feel held back, who underperform, or who want more meaning in life.
Sanam Pasha
Sanam Pasha is a life, career and performance coach who works with Iranian creatives. Her clients are musicians, writers, filmmakers, performers and artists who are adjusting to life after immigration. She founded Artology Coaching and holds ICF PCC certification with 400+ coaching hours. She is also a professional singer, composer and songwriter, so she knows the creative side of this move firsthand. She works from Laguna Woods, California.
Tracie Stanfield
Tracie Stanfield is a creative mentor and accountability coach for artists, dancers and other creatives. She is also an award-winning choreographer and producer in New York City. She founded SynthesisDANCE and co-directs Pipeline Dance Training. Her work has been commissioned in the US, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Russia and Latin America. She coaches early and mid-career artists on goals, routines and career plans through virtual sessions.
ArtsBridge
ArtsBridge is a college consulting firm for students in the visual and performing arts. It helps students in theater, music, dance and visual arts apply to college. The firm is based in Natick, Massachusetts. It offers artistic assessments, an application and essay bootcamp, audition workshops with college faculty, and summer programs in acting, voice, dance and musical theater. It also offers consulting for institutions.
Bay LeBlanc Quiney
Bay LeBlanc Quiney is a business and executive coach for driven entrepreneurs, leaders and professionals. She holds an MBA and the ICF PCC credential. Her focus is perfectionism, the habit of trying harder to be perfect until it stops working. Her clients include Olympic-level athletes, artists, designers, lawyers, doctors and executives from media companies such as NBCUniversal, Inc. She is based in Victoria, B.C. and travels to work with clients around the world.
Sarah Overman
Sarah Overman is an accountability and innovation coach for actors, performers and other creatives. She used to be a casting director, and she also worked as an actor. She created the One-On-Ones, sessions that show actors how casting works from the inside. Today she pairs coaching with Brainspotting to help clients clear blocks, deal with procrastination and self-sabotage, and build a stronger creative practice.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Anna Hennings | Athletes and sports and Mental toughness | $125 to $250 an hour |
| Chelsea Tanner | Musicians and performers and Performance anxiety | $100 to $150 an hour |
| Jonté LeGras | Musicians and performers | $110 to $200 an hour |
| Laura Gibert | Musicians and performers and Mental toughness | $105 to $190 an hour |
| Maria Bruce | Athletes and sports and High performers | $80 to $155 an hour |
| Melanie Golding | Musicians and performers and Performance anxiety | $120 to $225 an hour |
| Bree Sutton | Athletes and sports and Mental toughness | $80 to $155 an hour |
| Guy Camilleri | Musicians and performers | $110 to $200 an hour |
| Whitney Uland | Musicians and performers and High performers | $80 to $155 an hour |
| Sarah Arnold-Hall | Athletes and sports and High performers | $80 to $155 an hour |
| Kika Cicmanec | Athletes and sports and Musicians and performers | $200 to $300 an hour |
| Amy Schloerb | Musicians and performers and Performance anxiety | $80 to $150 an hour |
| Christian Hales | Musicians and performers | $90 to $175 an hour |
| John McKay | Musicians and performers | $80 to $150 an hour |
| Kate Mansfield | High performers and Athletes and sports | $80 to $250 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a performance coach cost?
Most performance coaches charge $90 to $210 per hour or session.
What else do these performance coaches help with?
Common focus areas include musicians and performers, high performers, athletes and sports and performance anxiety.
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Last updated September 2026.