Performance Anxiety: Starting your Jounrey to Enchance Your Performance

At Harris Psychotherapy, we believe that understanding the connection between stress and performance is essential for mental wellness and professional growth. The Yerkes-Dodson Curve is a powerful psychological model that illustrates how optimal levels of arousal (or stress) can enhance performance — but too much or too little can lead to burnout or disengagement.

In this post, we explore how you can identify where you currently fall on the curve and what personalized strategies can help you move toward — and stay in — your peak performance zone. Whether you're a high-achieving professional, a student under pressure, or someone managing chronic stress, learning to calibrate your arousal levels can unlock better productivity, mental clarity, and emotional resilience.

Learn how evidence-based mental health strategies and reflective tools (like our custom worksheet) can help you better manage stress, reduce anxiety, and perform at your best — not just in work, but in life.

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