Social Anxiety worksheets
Tools for the cognitions, attentional patterns, and avoidance that maintain social anxiety.
The Clark and Wells model of social anxiety has shaped most evidence-based protocols for the disorder. It identifies three maintaining mechanisms: self-focused attention, safety behaviors, and post-event rumination.
The worksheets in this section give you a practical tool for each one.
All Social Anxiety worksheets (16)
Behavioral Experiment Worksheet
A planner for testing predictions in the real world rather than arguing with them in your head.
Mind-Reading Audit
A check on assumptions about what other people are thinking about you.
Surveys as Evidence
A behavioral experiment template for gathering opinions from real people instead of relying on imagined ones.
Exposure Hierarchy Builder
A SUDS-rated ladder of feared situations from easiest to hardest, used to plan a graded exposure program.
Safety Behavior Audit
A worksheet for identifying the small protective rituals that prevent a feared situation from being a true exposure.
Post-Exposure Reflection
A debrief worksheet for capturing what was learned from an exposure session and updating predictions.
In Vivo Exposure Planner
A planner for setting up real-world exposure tasks with clear start and stop conditions.
Comparison Trap Worksheet
A short worksheet for catching social-media-driven comparison thinking and putting it in context.
Social Anxiety Attention Training
A worksheet from the Clark and Wells protocol for shifting attention outward during social interactions.
Behavioral Experiment Log for Social Anxiety
A specialized behavioral experiment template for testing predictions about social situations.
Post-Event Rumination Worksheet
A structured prompt for working with the long mental replays that follow social interactions.
Performance Anxiety Pre-Event Plan
A pre-event worksheet for managing predictable performance situations — presentations, exams, interviews.
Public Speaking Behavioral Experiment
A worksheet for designing a real-world test of a public-speaking prediction.
Imposter Syndrome Worksheet
A targeted thought-record variant for the specific cognitive patterns of imposter syndrome.
Behavioral Experiment Audit
A monthly review for cataloguing your behavioral experiments, what they tested, and what you learned.
Anxiety vs. Excitement Reframe
A short worksheet for reframing the same physiological arousal as excitement instead of anxiety.