Module 1
Understanding Anxiety
What anxiety is, why it exists, when it becomes a problem, and what happens in the body.
5 lessons
Create: Your anxiety signature
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Managing Anxiety
A seven-week psychoeducation programme for understanding anxiety and practising evidence-informed responses.
7 modules39 short lessonsFlexible lessonsPrivate progress
Why this course
Support that makes the next step clearer.
The introduction opens immediately after purchase. One new module opens each week for seven weeks. Lessons include essential teaching, optional depth, private reflection and practical activities. This is education rather than therapy, diagnosis or crisis care.
Inside the course
A clear route from overload to a workable plan
Seven modules take you from understanding anxiety to finding practical ways forward. Return to each lesson whenever it helps.
Module 2
How Anxiety Develops and Persists
How anxiety develops in the brain and body, what keeps it going, and why experiences differ.
5 lessons
Create: A cycle you can interrupt
Module 3
Worry, Thinking and Uncertainty
How worry, thinking patterns, uncertainty, and reassurance can keep anxiety going.
5 lessons
Create: Your worry decision card
Module 4
Common Forms of Anxiety
Common ways anxiety can show up, and the patterns these experiences share.
8 lessons
Create: Pattern and support comparison
Module 5
Living with Anxiety
How anxiety can affect decisions, relationships, work, sleep, and everyday wellbeing.
5 lessons
Create: An everyday support map
Module 6
Evidence-Informed Ways of Managing Anxiety
Approaches to managing anxiety, what they can help with, and when to seek more support.
6 lessons
Create: A support-options conversation card
Module 7
Integrating and Continuing
Bring your learning together, respond to setbacks, and make a plan for what comes next.
5 lessons
Create: Your personal course plan
The people behind the course
Psychology-informed, carefully explained
Happy Mind Society was founded by Alana Robinson and Kirsty Hawker. Both hold BSc (Hons) Psychology with Counselling degrees from Abertay University. Alana is the lead course writer; Kirsty is the lead workbook author and studies digital health tools through a funded MSc in Applied AI and User Experience.
The lessons distinguish established findings from plausible explanations, link to sources, and make room for uncertainty. The course is psychoeducation, not therapy or an individual assessment.
Meet the creators and read their backgrounds →Your course progress, written notes and module plans follow your account. Private writing is not shared with course staff.
Start by looking around
See how the lessons feel before deciding what comes next.
Try the whole first lesson, including the teaching, cast perspective and a working activity, before you decide.