www.freedomtoshine.co.uk Emma’s social enterprise for people with social anxiety, through one day events which helps tackle anxiety head on, using dance, drama, singing and much more!! Guaranteed to excite and inspire! Based in Bristol, UK.
Self-Help groups, chatrooms, forums
www.social-anxiety.org.uk This is the one of the sites that we both found early on in our discovery of social anxiety disorder. It is a UK based site with many members, a good place to meet and chat with other sufferers of social anxiety. You can find many local UK groups on here.
www.socialanxiety.co.uk Nick Hanlon once suffered from social anxiety disorder and now runs a great website on how to overcome social anxiety, with tips, blog and videos.
www.sawest.org Nick Hanlon runs a great social anxiety support group in Bristol and has been running it for many years now. Emma and I met at this group back in 2005.
www.socialanxietysupport.com Learn about various treatment options for social anxiety with the latest treatment experiences and lots of good info about social
anxiety on this site.
www.socialphobiatube.com A place for SA sufferers to meet, chat, blog and share videos.
www.socialanxietytube.com My personal weekly blog about social anxiety disorder.
Inspiration
www.youtube.com/janeyfromkorea I met Janey through YouTube and she is a huge inspiration to social anxiety sufferers all over the world. At 22, she is still suffering with social anxiety but still finds the courage to share many videos via YouTube about her experiences and battles with SA. Subscribe to her now!
www.diaryofashyblackwoman.org A really inspiring woman from New York, she shares her experiences of suffering with social anxiety on her blog and podcasts.
www.shok999.wordpress.com A blog from a good friend of mine, a young man living in the North of England writing about his life with social anxiety.
www.youtube.com/NoSocialAnxiety another YouTube Channel from an Australian girl who is struggling with social anxiety. There are some really good videos here.
www.youtube.com/spiffyrich Another SA sufferer with some good insights to this disorder. He is based in the U.S.
www.youtube.com/BulletProofMonkeon Yet another inspiration on YouTube, check out his videos. He is based in the U.K.
www.socialanxietydisorder.org.uk A website ran by a former sufferer. This site offers advice on cognitive behavioural therapy techniques, and articles.
Courses, Therapies and alternative therapies
www.paulmckenna.com Paul Mckenna’s great site, you can find out about similar NLP courses that I went on back in 2006.
www.kevinlaye.co.uk A good friend of mine and renowned Harley, Street therapist. Kevin uses a powerful cocktail of techniques from NLP, TFT and hypnosis, a winning formula. His ethos is that he wants to see you for as few sessions as possible and rarely sees a person more than twice. Sessions are one and a half hours long.
www.shyclinic.com Walter Friedman’s shyness clinic is based in London, England. The Clinic is a comprehensive twenty week programme for overcoming shyness, becoming more assertive and improving your social skills. The methods used in the Clinic are grounded in proven, easily learned cognitive-behavioural techniques.
www.tftrx.com A treasure trove of information on Thought Field Therapy from the creator of Thought Field Therapy, Roger Callahan. As used by Paul McKenna in many of his self-help programs. Often works when nothing else does.
www.atft.org The non-profit arm of Thought Field Therapy, you can find practitioners all over the world here, look for membership directory.
www.btfta.org The British non-profit association of Thought Field Therapy.
www.landmarkeducation.com The courses that Emma and I attended, not specifically based on any therapy or specifically for social anxiety disorder, however, were proven most powerful and effective for the both of us.
www.babcp.com Website of the British Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Psychotherapists – the central UK organisation co-coordinating and regulating therapists. Contains general information about the organisation and its aims, and most usefully, a searchable database of CBT practitioners by region throughout the UK. The organisation seems to define behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy as broadly as possible, so you should still check exactly what a therapist practices if you seek one through this site.
www.nacbt.org National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists based in the U.S.
Anxiety Charities
www.anxietyuk.org.uk “ANXIETY UK is a national registered charity formed 30 years ago by a sufferer of agoraphobia for those affected by anxiety disorders. Today we are still a user-led organisation, run by sufferers and ex-sufferers of anxiety disorders supported by a high-profile medical advisory panel.”
www.anxietycare.org.uk An anxiety charity based in the east end of London. There is some good information and services available.
www.anxietyalliance.org.uk An anxiety charity based in the Warwickshire, UK.
www.socialphobia.org The social phobia/social anxiety association based in the U.S. There is some good information on here.
www.nopanic.org.uk UK based charity with help lines in Ireland and France.
General info
www.bbc.co.uk/headroom The BBC’s own campaign on mental health issues, they have some great information on here. You can view Steve’s interview on social anxiety with Ruby Wax here too.
