Meet nomy: the essential performance psychology toolkit designed to help you thrive in high-pressure environments — from audition rooms to the main stage.
The reality of performing
Auditions, recitals, and major performances come with immense pressure. Whether you’re stepping into a sterile audition environment or navigating the daily demands of a conservatoire, performance anxiety and mental burnout are real barriers to showing your true potential.
You don’t have to navigate that pressure alone.
How it works
Developed through the principles of Sound Performance Psychology, nomy provides artists with immediate, actionable mental tools to build resilience, enhance focus, and protect their wellbeing.
After a short quiz, nomy builds you a personalised 6–10 minute pre-performance routine to weave into your warm-up.
Grounded in expertise
nomy isn’t just a wellness app; it’s built specifically for the performing arts. Grounded in professional performance psychology and real-world stage experience, every tool is designed to address the unique challenges of a life in the arts.
Rooted in evidence-based performance psychology, not generic wellness trends.
Designed around the realities of conservatoires, auditions, and stage life.
Created with practitioners who have lived the pressure of performance themselves.
Hannah Sandison
Lyric Mezzo-Soprano · MSc Performance Psychology · Founder
nomy is the tool I wished I had standing in the wings. Not a meditation app — a structured, clinically-grounded routine, in your pocket, when it matters most.
— Hannah Sandison, Founder
The person behind nomy
Hannah Sandison is a lyric mezzo-soprano and performance psychology consultant — and she built nomy because she lived the challenges of consistent pressure in training and a performance career.
Trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Royal College of Music, Hannah has performed at Glyndebourne, the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, and on stages across Europe. She knows from the inside what it feels like to stand in the wings before a high-stakes performance — and what happens when the mind works against you.
To close that gap, she completed an MSc in Performance Psychology at Bangor University, conducting original research on resilience in opera singers with the Institute for Psychology of Elite Performance. She went on to found Sound Performance Psychology, combining counselling skills with an evidence-based approach rooted in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Today Hannah works one-to-one with performers, speaks at industry events, appears as a media commentator, and delivers workshops and seminars at conservatoires and opera companies across Europe.
nomy is the distillation of that work — the tool Hannah wished she had on every first night. Built for performers, by a performer.
10+
years on professional stages
MSc
Performance Psychology
Trusted by leading arts institutions and teachers
