Therapy for Public Speakers

Become a Great Public Speaker

Gain the skills to be a great public speaker with Soulful Psychology®’s Performance Therapy services. Our specialized strategies help public speakers develop the mental strength to excel at speaking events. We help public speakers unlock their mental blocks and thrive. Find more fulfillment in your career with our innovative approach to performance therapy. You have the skills for overcoming mental setbacks, we have the psychological tools to help you access them and succeed.

Speak Publicly with Confidence

Our clients consist of executives who lead multimillion and multibillion dollar companies, entrepreneurs who successfully exited their businesses, platinum-selling musicians, and college athletes. Yet, as successful as our clients are, we find that many of them struggle with the same issue … the fear of public speaking.

We realize their public speaking struggles are psychological. Fear compromises the ability to be fully present in the speech. We help our clients relieve psychological discomfort and develop profound public speaking skills to become the leaders they were meant to be.

A History of Empowering Public Speakers

For over 20 years we have specialized in helping people develop public speaking skills. One of the most paralyzing feelings for some people is speaking in front of a crowd. In fact 75% of people list public speaking as their number one fear, even above death. We have worked with thousands of people to overcome their fears and become amazing public speakers. We have an extremely effective method that enables people to reach their full potential as a public speaker. Our public speaking tools provide clients with the ability to sharpen their speech writing skills and also develop their speech delivery performance utilizing verbal and nonverbal techniques that will captivate audiences.

We help business executives and entrepreneurs in public speaking so they can provide meaningful speeches to boost employee motivation, provide market updates to stakeholders, interviews with the media, and strategic direction to board members. We also help entertainers, athletes, politicians, and lawyers on speaking to the media for press conferences, award show acceptance speeches, and speaking engagements.

You might be nervous of public speaking or want to take your public speaking skills to the next level; either way, we can help you feel the ease, proficiency and fun that can come from giving a speech or presentation. If you experience anxiety from speaking in public, don’t worry as you are in good company: Actress Carol Burnett was known to be so nervous before her performances that she threw up each time. Even business mogul Warren Buffet dropped out of his college speech class to avoid having to speak in front of his peers. Public speaking anxiety can spill over into social anxiety in which people avoid attending events they anticipate having to speak at. It can take a toll on your self-esteem and reduce confidence.

The need to use oratory skills like public speaking is crucial for leading teams and communicating the vision and direction of your business. Advancing your career could also be contingent on your ability to speak publicly. We can help you tackle your fear of public speaking and actually become a confident speaker who feels comfortable speaking to a crowd. Speaking freely and powerfully in public can build your confidence and create opportunities for successful influence in your company.

We will also help to improve your overall communication skills so that you can effectively champion the upward trajectory of your team’s morale and performance. Because we specialize in integrating psychological insight and communication skills you will notice the reduction of anxiety and stress from speeches and public addresses. We can help you actually enjoy public speaking and marvel at the growth you can achieve in being the influential leader you are meant to be. This investment in yourself can result in significant earnings in personal and professional advancement.

We are grateful to have the unique skillset of using psychological expertise to identify and heal the underlying root causes of your public speaking fear. You may suffer from painful experiences in your past, such as being made fun of, embarrassed, or having your voice suppressed, which could have manifested into a fear of public speaking. We have the expertise at helping you unpack these unconscious fears, liberate you from the pain, and empower you to flourish. The harsh inner-critic can be silenced paving the way for more valuable and productive internal-dialogue that promotes your wellbeing. How freeing it can be to walk into any room, in front of any size audience, and have the conviction to speak with confidence and fluidity to move the crowd.

We can help you become a masterful public speaker by providing you with our invaluable resources that include some of the following:

Mindfulness techniques that can calm the mind and help you feel present while speaking in public.
Flow-state methods that enable you to be in the zone, immersed, energized and focused in the experience.
Visualization strategies to increase your mind’s ability to foresee the successful results of your speech, envisioning your speech moving people in a positive direction.
Breath-work to calm your central nervous system, which includes techniques such as the 4-7-8 breathing cycle and physiological sigh.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation that includes intentionally tensing up each of your muscle groups and then releasing after five seconds.
Quick bursts of physical activity that include running and stretching techniques.

You can feel at ease and enjoy the extemporaneous nature of engaging your audience. We have worked with all kinds of people from those who are shy and terrified of speaking in public to those who are already good public speakers but are looking to advance their skills.

Our experience has shown us that all people have the potential to become profound public speakers; all people have an important point of view that others can benefit from. Our role is to help you find your voice so that you can bring forward your invaluable gifts to share with the world. We look forward to working with you to do so.

Gain Psychological Expertise

Our team consists of psychologists, therapists, and public speaking experts. We are specialists at helping clients identify the roots of their public speaking concerns, which often stem from psychological underpinnings that need to be processed and healed in order to speak publicly at the highest level. In many cases public speaking struggles can be related to unrecognized and therefore unresolved emotional wounds that get triggered from speaking in public. We can help you gain the psychological strength to flourish as a public speaker … and even help you enjoy public speaking.

We can prepare you for speaking at the following events:

Interviews on podcasts, network media, streaming platforms, or online platforms.
Press conferences or media junkets.
Pre/Post game or event interviews.
Keynote addresses.
Board meetings.
Employee conventions or staff meetings.
Conferences, lectures, or workshops.
Product announcements.
Stakeholder meetings.

Access a Wealth of Public Speaking Tools

We can work with you on:

Developing mindfulness practices to integrate the mind-body connection, which is extremely necessary for high-performance. Our mindfulness techniques help to calm the mind by mastering complete attention to the present moment, which can quiet the mental chatter or crowd distractions.
Utilizing visualization skills that involve identifying in your mind the best-case scenario of achieving your desired public speaking outcome, picturing overcoming anxiety, and picturing the entire speech delivery in your mind, which prepares you for success. We can help you mentally rehearse a desired outcome, which helps condition yourself to manifest that outcome.
Increase your positive internal self-talk, which includes helping support yourself before and during a speech. We help you replace negative chatter in your mind with calm, peaceful, positive perspectives that eventually become the normal and consistent thought pattern. This can enable you to move on from a mistake quicker and reinforce confidence with the use of positive appraisal after a successful speech. We help you develop mental resilience to present at your best.

On-Site Public Speaker Services

We provide on-site performance therapy services for our clients so that we can support you in the preparation, presentation, and processing of your public speaking events. We can join you at your speaking engagements to help ease your nerves in real-time and motivate you to speak with the confidence and conviction that you are capable of. Therefore, we tailored provide performance therapy services that include the following on-site resources: