Counselling and Mental Health Service

Entry to this group is via Practitioner referral only.

These sessions will be face to face, taking place in Counselling and Mental Health Service (CS1), Room 5.004, Fifth Floor, Crawford House.

This is a 5 week CBT course and attendance at each session is required.

This group is for any student who experiences problems with what is commonly known as Social Anxiety or Social Phobia. This means you and anyone attending is likely to relate to some or most of the following in social and or performance situations:

Fear of embarrassment and or humiliation

Physiological symptoms of anxiety that may include panic attacks in social / performance specific situations

A negative image of yourself and how others perceive you

Avoidance of feared situations or endured with significant distress

A sense that fear is excessive or unreasonable in some way

Interference with every day and or academic / occupational functioning

This course will be facilitated by a CBT practitioner using face to face sessions. It will be a closed group meaning that anybody who does not attend the first session will be unable to attend subsequent sessions. We will be using a range of mediums to help us, including power point, small group exercises and some larger group feedback. You will develop your own personal understanding of how your social anxiety operates and what processes maintain it. You will be invited to engage in a range of evidence based CBT exercises and strategies, including between sessions, designed to help you improve your social anxiety over time.