Therapists often feel uncertain working with public speaking anxiety because it looks like social anxiety, but doesn’t always behave like it clinically. Here are my learnings and free resources.
I LOVE how you differentiate interpersonal social anxiety from performance based competence threat, and especially how you bring in social rank and identity rather than reducing it to just distorted thoughts. The distinction between fear of evaluation and fear of anxiety being seen feels particularly useful in practice, especially with high functioning clients who have already done standard panic protocols.
This couldn’t have come at a better moment. Thank you for posting.
ah I am so glad!!! do let me know any thoughts or feedback if you use anything from it in the future!
I LOVE how you differentiate interpersonal social anxiety from performance based competence threat, and especially how you bring in social rank and identity rather than reducing it to just distorted thoughts. The distinction between fear of evaluation and fear of anxiety being seen feels particularly useful in practice, especially with high functioning clients who have already done standard panic protocols.