Test Anxiety Stress Reduction Program

Stress management coaching for test anxiety and school success helps you identify your stressors, assess how stress affects you, and plan and execute a comprehensive stress management program. The William B. Cole Consultants stress management coach is a trusted, confidential advisor who teaches, guides and mentors clients to reach more of their personal potential. Do you freeze up or go blank on tests? Are exam pressures getting to you? Do you under-perform on tests? Does the stress of studying and test-taking create anxiety? Do you have symptoms of academic burnout? If you answered yes to even one of these questions you should know there is help. You do not need to suffer. There is a proven program that can help you reduce school stress, enhance learning, improve test scores and give you balance in their life. It's called The Test Anxiety Stress Reduction Program. Quick Links for the Test Anxiety Stress Reduction Program: Score yourself on our free on-line test anxiety assessment     Learn about our new Test Stress Success Manual   Check out our new client discount coaching offer, and save $75   Additional Services

All test anxiety coaching clients receive this manual, a $19.95 value, at no charge.

How Stress and Anxiety Ruin Studying And Test Performance

A certain amount of stress about tests helps a student get motivated and study hard, but when the stress goes past the ideal levels, problems begin.

Test anxiety prior to an exam can ruin study habits. The stress can make it difficult to concentrate, read, understand and retain material, think analytically, plan and execute study strategies, be creative and stay focused on the work.

Exam anxiety can directly cause mental stress symptoms such as racing thoughts, confusion, fears, the mind going blank, negative thinking, rushing, self-sabotage, memory loss, fear of failure, irritability, worry and a self-critical attitude.

Exam anxiety can also cause physical stress symptoms such as muscle tension, gastric issues, emotional issues, energy loss and racing heartbeat, among others.

Finally, in extreme forms, exam anxiety can cause nightmares, panic attacks, avoidance behavior, flashbacks, generalized anxiety, moodiness, eating disorders, sleep disorders, obsessive thinking, perfectionism, and self-defeating behaviors.

Test Takers Need Mental Toughness

Some people love to take tests. They see them as a challenge and a puzzle to be solved. Other people see test taking as a threat and something to be avoided at all costs. Whichever camp you are in, test-taking does carry some stress. To minimize this stress, the smart test taker considers as many of the stressors that surround tests, both before and during, and devises ways to surmount them. Some of these can be avoided. Some can be changed. But many stressors simply have to be endured. That's where excellent preparation and mental toughness come in. Mental toughness is the ability to maintain focus, discipline and confidence in the face of stress. To perform to your potential in any test, you have to have this toughness.

Without the proper levels of mental toughness, focus and self-awareness, self-discipline and stress control skills, you cannot reach your full potential.

The School Test Anxiety Stress Reduction Program

This is a series of three hours of one-on-one private classes that focuses on removing the mental blocks and stress and anxiety problems holding you back from reaching your full potential. You will learn how to mentally prepare for classes, studies, and test-taking by knowing how to relax, focus your mind and visualize success. Just as top athletes learn how to get into "the zone" to help them play their best, you will learn how to get in "the academic zone" so your full mental abilities are enhanced.

The Test Stress Success Manual EBook

The Test Stress Success Manual, a 142-page expert guide of over 655 techniques, methods, checklists, and strategies for turning test stress into success, is provided in PDF form at no extra cost to all participants in the Test Anxiety Stress Reduction Program. This manual contains hundreds of test strategies for studying, taking practice tests, handling stress, mental readiness, in-the-test techniques for handling concentration, and post-test mental review suggestions so you leave nothing to chance in the test-taking process. It would take you hundreds of hours of research to find all the educational psychology strategies, techniques and methods for turning test stress into success. Bill has done all the legwork for you, and he's complied this voluminous research into this single, manageable, easy to use resource.

What You Will Learn In This Test Stress Success Manual

• 50 Factors That Can Cause Test Stress.
• The 15 Factors Of Peak Performance In Test-Taking.
• The Seven Confidence Factors In Test-Taking.
• The Five Benefits Of Centering.
• The 27 Ways You Scare Yourself With Test-Taking.
• Six Realities About Exam Anxiety.
• Eight Factors That Cause Exam Anxiety.
• Ten Ways To Psych Up To Test Better.
• The Top Ten Stress-Causing Test-Taking Traps.
• The Top Ten Ways To Reduce Test Stress.
• Eight Things That Happen When You Choke On A Test.
• 12 Ways Mental Toughness Lets You Perform Better Under Pressure.
• Three Special Mental Toughness Strategies To Prevent Choking.
• Ten Myths About Test Anxiety.
• The Nine Elements Of The Zone.
• How To Identify The 56 Symptoms Of Test Stress.
• 15 Mind-Body Tools And Approaches To Handling Test Stress.
• 26 Test Preparation Mental Strategies.
• 23 Test Execution Mental Strategies.
• Ten Post-Test Mental Review Strategies.
• 50-Item Post-Test Mental Assessment Review.
• Nine Ways To Tell If You Are Visualizing Properly.
• Nine Ways To Use Visualization In Testing.
• 14 Stress Control Tips And Tricks For Test-Taking.
• 18 Mental Training Strategies For Test-Taking.
• 11 Cognitive Strategies For Test-Taking.
• How To Manage And Reduce Pressure In Test Taking.
• 70 Ways To Keep A Mental Training Journal.
• Eight Common Mistakes In Journaling.
• 97-Item List Of Stress Control And Peak Performance Interventions.

This test stress success manual gives you a step-by-step approach to mastering the testing process. Everything you need to do, from the moment you begin studying to when you take the test and beyond, is covered. Bill has thought of everything you could possibly need to know to conduct a comprehensive, smart test success campaign. This manual is available for purchase as an e-book for immediate downloading. When you begin the Test Anxiety Stress Reduction program, you will receive this success manual at no additional charge.

Learn more or purchase The Test Stress Success Manual EBook.

This special ebook is available for immediate downloading in PDF format. (Note that this is an electronic product, and it will not be mailed to you on CD, hardcopy or in any other form. If you would like this product in other formats, in quantities, please contact us.)

How You Will Benefit From This Test-Taking Stress Reduction Program

You will learn at least twenty or more specific stress-control techniques for handling school stress and test-taking stress. You will walk out of each session understanding each skill, knowing how to practice each one and when and how to apply each one in school. You will quickly learn how to deeply relax your body, remove stress symptoms, clear away any mental distractions, channel your energy, calm your emotions, and enhance your recall and mental alertness.

20 Specific Stress Skills You Will Learn

Here are some of the 20-plus stress-stopping skills you will learn:

1. Autogenics
2. Centering
3. Body Scan
4. Thought Stopping
5. Meditation
6. Mental Training
7. Mindfulness
8. Self-Coaching
9. Muscle, Emotional And Mental Awareness
10. The One Thing At A Time Performance Mindset
11. Psyching Up And Psyching Down Techniques
12. Breath Control Training
13. Attention Control Training
14. Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)
15. Progressive Relaxation
16. Mental Readiness Strategies
17. Cognitive Restructuring And Reframing
18. Performance Enhancement Psychology
19. Visualization
20. Post Test Review Strategies

In addition, you will receive these 10 benefits:

1. Assessment of your current stress management skills.
2. A deep and extensive level of analysis and feedback about your stress profile and learning style.
3. Proprietary, detailed checklists that help you become aware of how stress hits you.
4. Worksheets and exercises that bring the concepts Bill teaches to life.
5. Help you overcome specific issues such as fears and low confidence.
6. Advice on how to achieve school-life balance.
7. Actual in the moment learning of each stress control technique.
8. Answer all questions you have about stress management.
9. Assistance in creating custom stress control routines.
10. Help creating a daily and weekly plan for stress control.
    

How This Stress Program Is Applied To Schoolwork

This program can be used in any area of school-studying, test-taking, learning in class, schoolwork at home, etc, and can be laid over any subject matter area.

What This Program Does Not Cover

This program is not about using flashcards, practice tests, or basic test taking strategies. This is not a subject-matter content mastery program, similar to what you see typical school tutors offering. This program however does enhance the learning, mastery and test-taking of these areas, such as math, science, music, computers, etc. You see many tutors describing their content expertise, and that's all well and good. Those are wonderful, needed programs, but probably virtually none of them address the stress aspects of test taking and academic stress control. This program does exactly that. If you have a child they still probably need a private tutor in the above subject-matter areas, but he or she also needs this program to allow them to study correctly, take tests better and avoid school burnout.

Who This Program Is For

This program has been taught to children as young as eight years of age. This program benefits any student who struggles to achieve success in school, and any child who achieves well, but who experiences stress.

Program Time Options

This is not your usual tutoring program, as you can see. Therefore, rather than looking at this program as a weekly, long-term tutoring process, it is better to view it as a one-time boot-camp, with follow-up as needed. You can learn virtually everything you need to know about stress control and peak performance in academics in about three hours. The skills you learn then need to be regularly practiced, and applied intelligently.

Extra, Specialized Coaching Available In Hypnosis

Should you need or desire hypnosis as a stress control adjunct to this program, that can be arranged. We use hypnosis in our coaching work across many disciplines.

New Client Coaching Discount Offer

Our standard coaching fees for private pay individuals are $125 an hour, but we want to give you a starter discount. Choose this Traction-To-Action Starter Package and take off $75 over three hours of coaching. You pay only $300 for all the above 14 points over three valuable hours of coaching with Bill. Travel and associated expenses are extra, if we come to your offices.

Please note that these private pay discounted coaching fees are applicable only to telephone or Skype sessions, for sessions in our offices in Cupertino, California, and for local sessions within a few minutes of our location. For coaching sessions outside our offices, additional coaching and travel fees are required. There also will be a minimum number of hours required for travel sessions. The coaching rates shown here are discounted for private pay individuals. Rates are higher for corporate, governmental and other entities. Please contact us for those fee schedules. To prevent fraud, refunds are not allowed by means other than the same credit card or PayPal account used to make the original charge.

We have coached individuals from San Francisco, San Jose, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Campbell, Cupertino, Palo Alto, Almaden Valley, Santa Cruz, Los Altos, Monte Sereno, Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Alameda, Atherton, Berkeley, Burlingame, Campbell, Concord, Daly City, Danville, Dublin, Foster City, Fremont, Hillsborough, Livermore, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Milpitas, Moraga, Orinda, Pleasant Hill, Pleasanton, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Leandro, San Mateo, San Ramon, San Rafael, Santa Clara, Union City, Woodside, and many other locations in the San Francisco Bay area, Silicon Valley, and around the United States. You can come to us, or we can come to you. For sessions out of our office, there may be an extra charge for travel. We can also work virtually. We also regularly consult with clients by phone and email from countries around the world, such as England, Portugal, Australia, Mexico, China, Canada, Israel and South Africa.

To start your test stress coaching program, simply email us, call us at 408-725-7191, or click on the button below to sign up now.

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We can often start you the same week you contact us. If you need emergency test stress management coaching, call us, and we will do everything we can to help you right away. We always go the extra mile for our clients!

Additional Services

There is no additional charge for reading and responding to reasonable length emails. For emails or attached documents that are longer, any time spent with these activities will be counted as hours in the package you purchased. If the hours exceed the package hours, they will be invoiced weekly.

We can assist you in many other ways in addition to coaching. This is a menu of how you can utilize our expertise to create a robust program of improvement.

• Reading, reacting to and editing documents.
  
  
• Reviewing videos.
  
  
• Reviewing audios.
  
  
• Creating customized audios.
  
  
• Creating and editing documents.
  
  
• Writing and editing speeches and training materials.
  
  
• Creating and conducting surveys and questionnaires.
  
  
• Creating and conducting 360 degree reviews.
  
  
• Speaking to people you designate, as part of your coaching program.
  
  
• Having us conduct web research, or other research on your behalf.
  
  
• Attending your performances or workplaces, or in the field, observing and debriefing you.
  
  
• Speaking by phone or Skype to debrief you after your performances, while you are still on site, or soon thereafter.

These additional services can be paid for in two ways, which we will ask you to designate before beginning them. They could be counted as part of your existing package hours, or charged as additional services beyond the package, at the hourly rate within the package you purchased. If these services exceed the hours in your package, they will be invoiced the week they are delivered, with payment due at that time.

Bill Cole's Background As An Educator

Bill always wanted to be a teacher. He has been a teacher, coach and consultant since the 1970's. He trained as a teacher as an undergraduate, completed a student teaching internship, and has taught at all levels and avenues in education: Private schools, public schools, junior colleges, colleges, universities, and he has owned his own teaching academy. He has held a lifetime teaching credential in California since 1989. He taught college for over 15 years, and one special area he taught was stress management. He was a master teacher and trainer of teachers in college for years. Currently he also trains and certifies teachers and coaches worldwide in his peak performance system: http://www.mentalgamecoaching.com/

Bill's mission is to help young people realize the potential they truly have and to help them create strategies to bring that out in academics and life itself.

With all his years of experience in teaching and coaching kids from ages eight to young adulthood, he have a special ability to create fast rapport and put them at ease in a coaching session. He is a good listener, sincere, and uses his sense of humor and intriguing questions to engage them in the process.

Academic Background

Bill graduated with honors in his undergraduate and graduate degrees, and was the first person in the world to earn a bachelor's degree in sport psychology. He was named to Who's Who in American Education, Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology, and won two academic awards, The Albert Zeigler Award for Academic Excellence (as an undergraduate), and the Clifford R. Furnas University Scholar-Athlete Award (as a graduating senior).

He holds a Master's degree in Physical Education from California State University at Fullerton and a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University, with additional coursework towards a doctorate in psychology at The Palo Alto Graduate school of Psychology.

To learn more about Bill Cole, see his full bio.

Scheduling Classes

This is a one-on-one, private class so scheduling is simple. We have convenient after school and weekend times available. If you have more than one person interested in this program and they would like to take it together, that can be arranged. Please contact us for details and pricing.

Free On-Line Test Stress Assessment

A good starting place is to complete this 5-minute on-line test stress control assessment, at no charge.

Please retain a copy and we can arrange a no-obligation ten-minute phone conversation with Bill at no charge. In that phone call he will review your assessment, answer your questions, explain the stress control coaching process, and make suggestions and recommendations as to how you can improve and strengthen your test-taking performance.

Taking this on-line assessment prior to the phone call is not required, but it is strongly suggested, as we find it provides excellent focus for this initial phone session. If you prefer to make the call first, please be prepared to discuss your situation in detail and what you are looking to achieve from this type of coaching.

Free Articles On Stress Control

Bill has written and published over 400 articles worldwide on a variety of issues and topics in education, coaching, peak performance and stress control. In addition to having created numerous tests and assessments, for many years he has written about test-taking strategies from a stress-reduction perspective and how students can master their test-taking fears. See our collection of articles about test stress management.

To Get Your School Test Anxiety Stress Reduction Program Underway

Call: 408-725-7191

Email: Bill@MentalGameCoach.com

We can often start you the same week you contact us. If you need emergency stress management coaching, call us, and we will do everything we can to help you right away. We always go the extra mile for our clients!

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Our work is guaranteed. We want you to succeed. If you do not believe we have met the mutually established objectives for your coaching project, we will continue to work toward those goals with you for no additional fee or expense consideration. If, after such an additional attempt, you still believe we have not met your objectives for this project, we will refund your coaching fees in total. We believe in our ability to help our clients. Our commitment to your success is total. This has been our commitment to our clients for well over a decade.

Our Coaching Is Confidential

Trust forms the core of the coaching relationship. We respect what you say, and will not repeat your material to anyone or to any entity. We maintain your confidentiality and privacy in all communications and we maintain safe and secure written records of your account. We do not disclose that you are a client if you do not want that known.

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