Angst Coaching: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Angst Coaching, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Practices that may help
- Apply EFT to specific performance anxiety triggers
EFT has the strongest self-guided evidence for test anxiety, public speaking, and sports performance stress.
EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows - Write about your worries before a high-stakes performance
Offload performance anxiety by writing it out in full immediately before the event.
Choking Under Pressure, Made Practical - Switch to process-only focus when competition pressure peaks
When the outcome feels most at stake, deliberately redirect attention to the one next process action.
Process Goals, Made Practical - The Anxiety Toolkit, Made Practical
A practical anxiety toolkit pulls together a handful of evidence-informed skills — grounding, breathing, interoceptive awareness, behavioral experiments, and balanced self-talk — so you have the right tool for the moment instead of one move for every situation. Several of these rest on solid clinical and experimental support. They are self-help skills for everyday stress and anxiety; for severe or persistent anxiety, use them alongside professional care. - Identify whether defensive pessimism or optimism fits your anxiety profile
Defensive pessimism works best for high-anxiety people — applying it to low-anxiety people, or optimism to high-anxiety people, tends to backfire.
Defensive Pessimism, Made Practical - Become aware of your own emotional reactions first
A parent who is flooded by their child’s distress cannot coach it — self-awareness is the prerequisite.
Emotion Coaching (John Gottman) - Obstacle anticipation before close
Before ending, ask "what could get in the way?" and pre-plan the response.
The GROW Coaching Model, Made Practical - Graduated anger inoculation (stress inoculation exposure)
Practice coping with anger in imagination — from mild triggers to intense ones — before you face them live.
Novaco Anger Management, Made Practical - Use grounding before anxiety peaks, not after
Start the technique at the first sign of anxiety — not once the wave is overwhelming.
The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique - Practice emotion coaching during low-stakes moments
Build the skill in small moments so it’s available in the big ones.
Emotion Coaching (John Gottman)
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- There’s a big thing coming up
- Right before the test or the big moment, my head is so jammed with what-ifs and dread that there’s no room left to actually think
- It’s match point, the moment it matters most, and that’s exactly when my head floods with "don’t blow this"
- Every coach and self-help book tells me to picture it going great, and it just leaves me jittery and underprepared
- The second my kid starts melting down I feel my own chest tighten and my patience snap, and I react from that heat
Related concerns
- How To Deal With Anxiety During Exams
Offload performance anxiety by writing it out in full immediately before the event.
Write about your worries before a high-stakes performance
- How To Manage Anxiety Before A Test
Offload performance anxiety by writing it out in full immediately before the event.
- How To Manage Anxiety During Exam
Offload performance anxiety by writing it out in full immediately before the event.
- Anxiety Drivers Test
A practical anxiety toolkit pulls together a handful of evidence-informed skills — grounding, breathing, interoceptive awareness, behavioral experiments, and balanced self-talk — so you have the right tool for the moment instead of one move for every situation. Several of these rest on solid clinical and experimental support. They are self-help skills for everyday stress and anxiety; for severe or persistent anxiety, use them alongside professional care.
- Anxiety Road Test
Offload performance anxiety by writing it out in full immediately before the event.
- Anxiety Toolkit
A practical anxiety toolkit pulls together a handful of evidence-informed skills — grounding, breathing, interoceptive awareness, behavioral experiments, and balanced self-talk — so you have the right tool for the moment instead of one move for every situation. Several of these rest on solid clinical and experimental support. They are self-help skills for everyday stress and anxiety; for severe or persistent anxiety, use them alongside professional care.
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