Sophie Adickes
Sophie Adickes
Sophie works with singers, professional performers, and high-achieving entrepreneurs, helping them conquer performance anxiety, manage industry stressors, and build unshakeable self-confidence.
Being a former performer herself, Sophie understands first-hand the difficulties of functioning within a high-stress/high-performance environment. Whether it’s the constant criticism and feedback, the audition grind, the rejection, or the pressure to people-please, being an artist is as challenging as it can be rewarding. In her coaching practice, she combines self-knowledge with tools training to help clients simultaneously manage stress and build self-confidence.
Sophie provides her clients with a holistic, solution-focused method backed by psychological research. Research demonstrates that confidence, resilience, and self-belief are skills that can be trained and learned, not just personality traits. Her goal as a coach is to equip her clients with the mindset and tools required to sustain a career in the arts, ensuring that no one gives up on their dreams due to a skill gap.
Managing performance anxiety goes beyond simply problem-solving or eliminating symptoms. Taking a strengths-based approach, Sophie uses each client's unique set of strengths and personal values as a strong foundation for growth and confidence. As most anxiety comes from a preoccupation with the past or future, Sophie helps clients redirect to the present moment and align their current actions with their future goals. Her coaching style draws from the evidence-based techniques of cognitive behavioral therapy, performance psychology, mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy, and positive psychology.
She is a certified (Institute of Coaching Studies) and International Coaching Federation-accredited coach with 300+ hours of coaching experience. She holds a Master's degree in Psychology from Pepperdine University, a Master's degree in Vocal Performance from New York University, and a Bachelor's degree in Vocal Performance from New England Conservatory.
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