You give everything to your craft. Your mental health deserves the same.
Specialist psychology for actors, musicians, dancers, and the people who make performance possible.
Founder
Dr Julia Grieshofer
Modalities
CBT · IPT · MBT · Psychoanalytic
In-person
London, SW18
Online
Worldwide, all timezones
Performing is unlike any other profession. So is the therapy for it.
Performing is unlike any other profession. The audition room, the rejection, the intensity of a long run, the silence between contracts — the psychological demands are real, and they are specific. The Performer Clinic was founded by Julia Grieshofer, a psychologist and researcher who has spent years studying what resilience actually looks like for actors and performers. This is not generic therapy adapted for the arts. It is therapy designed from the ground up for the realities of a performance career.
Someone who understands your world
You should not have to explain what an audition feels like. Julia works exclusively with performers — your experience is her starting point.
Evidence-based approaches that work
Julia uses MBT, CBT, and IPT, adapting the approach to what suits you. Her research shows that emotion regulation is at the heart of performer wellbeing.
Flexible, confidential, professional
Sessions online via Microsoft Teams and in person in London, at times that work around rehearsals and touring schedules.
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— West End actor · long-run musical, 2025
Four ways we can work together.
Individual therapy
One-to-one psychotherapy tailored to you and your performance career. Drawing on MBT, CBT, and IPT — adapted to what suits you best. Online and in-person.
Workshops & training
Evidence-based resilience workshops for drama schools, conservatoires, theatre companies, and arts organisations. Psychoeducational — not therapy.
Online courses
Structured psychoeducational programmes — including The Resilient Performer, a 12-week programme built on original doctoral research into actor resilience.
Institutional consultancy
Consultation for producers, directors, and welfare leads seeking to improve performer wellbeing, develop policy, or support specific productions.
Hello, I’m Dr Julia Grieshofer.
Founder · Clinical Psychologist · Trained Performer
Julia Grieshofer is a Chartered Psychologist and researcher specialising in the psychology of performance. With a PhD from University College London and clinical training in MBT, CBT, and IPT, Julia brings together original research and clinical expertise to support performers at every stage of their career.
Her doctoral research identified emotion regulation as the central variable in performer psychological wellbeing — and forms the foundation of everything offered at the Clinic.
Experience
9 years in clinic
Performers seen
400+
Institutions
24 advised
Languages
English · German
What people say about working with us.
Published with consent. Names anonymised at the request of the contributor.
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Notes from the clinic.
What does resilience actually mean for actors?
On the silence between contracts — and what to do with it.
Emotion regulation on stage: a conversation with a choreographer.
Letters from the clinic, monthly.
A short note each month — one idea, one exercise, one thing worth reading. No spam.
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