156 professional CBT resources
A formulation based on Clark and Wells' cognitive model of social anxiety — mapping self-focused attention, the observer-perspective self-image, and safety behaviours.
A formulation based on Clark's cognitive model of panic — mapping the vicious cycle of catastrophic misinterpretation of body sensations.
A formulation based on Ehlers and Clark's cognitive model of PTSD — mapping the nature of the trauma memory, negative appraisals, sense of current threat, and the maintaining strategies.
Compare your internal self-image with how you actually appear on video to challenge distorted self-perception in social anxiety.
Identify triggers that activate trauma memories and systematically compare the original trauma context with the present reality to reduce flashback intensity.
Record panic episodes with triggers, sensations, catastrophic thoughts, safety behaviours, and actual outcomes to identify patterns and build evidence against catastrophic predictions.
Log interoceptive exposure exercises that deliberately produce feared body sensations to break the link between sensations and catastrophic interpretations.
Identify the distorted observer-perspective self-image that drives social anxiety — the "felt sense" of how you appear to others.
Prepare for trauma reliving sessions and process the experience afterwards — tracking hotspots, emotions, and updated meanings.
Monitor and challenge the post-mortem rumination that follows social situations — a key maintenance factor in social anxiety.
Challenge catastrophic misinterpretations of body sensations by examining evidence and generating realistic alternatives.
Identify the "hotspot" moments in a trauma memory — the moments of peak emotion — and work on updating their personal meaning.
Compare the effects of self-focused attention vs external focus during social situations to test whether self-focus makes anxiety worse.
Gather normalising evidence by surveying others about whether they experience the same body sensations and fears — challenging the belief that your experience is abnormal.
Prepare for a visit to the trauma site, record predictions, and process the experience afterwards to update the trauma memory.