Forming Our Anxiety Team

2019©The Social Anxiety Association

Thomas A. Richards, Ph.D., Psychologist/President

The Social Anxiety Association is a non-profit organization founded in 1997 to meet the growing needs of people with social anxiety.  

The Social Anxiety Institute is the largest website on the internet about social anxiety disorder (social phobia). Therapy programs have run at the Institute full-time since 1994.  Major new help for overcoming is always under development and revisions to therapy programs occurred in 2019.  Another therapy program revision will be complete in 2020.  

For treatment: Overcoming social anxiety: Step by Step   A structured guide to overcoming social anxiety (a "How to" guide to get over social anxiety).  This therapy program is the most commonly used program to help people overcome social anxiety.  It was written and explained by a person who had a severe case of social anxiety himself:  Dr. Thomas A. Richards, the founder and director of the Social Anxiety Institute, Inc.   

The Anxiety Network explains and describes five major anxiety disorders:  panic, generalized anxiety, social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.