There are many factors that may be affecting the students landing performance. I feel the first step should be to ask the student how they are feeling, and allow them to relax, whether that means spending time doing a maneuver they feel confident in or just landing the airplane and allowing them to relax on taxiback.
Your supervisor should know of this problem if it occurred before this flight; otherwise when you return from the flight, as the instructor you should communicate with your supervisor and the student.
Only after using different techniques such as visualization, other instructors and different explanations of landings, may it be appropriate to communicate to the student that they are struggling a far greater amount than the average and that you are concerned they may not "catch on."
The students performance may be caused by many things, such as home struggles, events that may have happened recently or even anticipation. These should all be considered and evaluated by multiple instructors to analyze whether these are seemingly temporary or permanent obstacles.
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