Therapy for Performance Anxiety in Culver City, California
When the pressure effects your performance.
Therapy for performancy anxiety for high achievers and driven professionals, athletes, creatives and people in high pressure careers in Culver City and throughout California online.
This therapy is for people who…
• Athletes managing competition anxiety, performance blocks, fear of injury, or the identity crisis of an off-season
• Professionals paralyzed by high-visibility projects, presentations, or the fear of being found out
• Creatives who freeze, procrastinate, or self-sabotage right before the thing that matters most
• Anyone in a pressure profession whose anxiety shows up as perfectionism, overpreparation, or an inability to ever feel ready enough
You don’t struggle with motivation. You struggle with what happens when the stakes feel too high, the margin for error too small, and your own mind becomes the thing working against you.
For high intensity adults and teens experiencing performance anxiety in Culver City and across California online.
You’re highly capable but your nerves don’t match your skill level
• You overthink in the moments that require you to just go
• You replay mistakes longer than you celebrate wins
• You’ve developed rituals, avoidances, or superstitions to manage the pressure
• Pressure used to fuel you — now it shuts you down
• You’re performing fine on the outside, but it costs you everything
Is this you?
How Performance Anxiety Therapy in Culver City, CA works
We work at the intersection of your mind, your patterns, and the specific demands of your field.
That means:
• Identifying the thought patterns and compulsive behaviors keeping you stuck in the loop
• Building tolerance for uncertainty — the thing all high performance actually requires
• Developing a relationship with pressure that fuels rather than freezes
• Addressing the identity and self-worth pieces that live underneath the anxiety
This is not cheerleading. It’s not visualization scripts. It’s real clinical work grounded in OCD-informed therapy and relational psychology.
Sessions are online and in person in Culver City & California, flexible, and completely confidential.
What’s Possible with Therapy for Performance Anxiety in Culver City, CA
You don’t have to white-knuckle your way through every high-stakes moment. It’s possible to feel the pressure and move anyway — not because you’ve eliminated the anxiety, but because you’ve changed your relationship to it.
Clients come out of this work:
• Performing closer to their actual ability level
• Recovering faster from mistakes and setbacks
• Making decisions from clarity instead of fear
• Feeling like themselves again — not just their output
Meet your Culver City Performance Anxiety Therapist
I’m Amelia DiDomenico, MA, LMFT, a licensed therapist in Los Angeles with 15 years as a personal trainer, coach, and studio owner. My undergraduate background in industrial and organizational psychology gave me an early framework for understanding people inside systems, what drives performance, what disrupts it, and what the pressure of high-exposure careers actually costs.
I know firsthand the vulnerability built into high-expectation, high-performance work, the way visibility raises the stakes, and how that pressure can quietly disrupt the very process of performing at your best.
My clinical approach is OCD-informed and relational. I understand driven people, how they think, what they avoid, and what it actually takes to shift. I’m not here to slow you down. I’m here to help you stop getting in your own way.
Based in Los Angeles. Licensed throughout California.
Ready to begin Performance Anxiety Therapy in Culver City, CA?
You’ve been holding this together alone for a long time.
You don’t have to keep doing that.
Start with a free 15-minute consultation — online, confidential, no pressure. Just a real conversation with someone who already speaks your language.