Ellen Hendriksen

How to Be Yourself treats social anxiety as a specific, common and highly treatable thing rather than as a personality defect, and it is written by someone who has it.

Hendriksen works at a clinic and the book follows cognitive behavioural lines: identify the prediction, test it, notice the prediction was wrong, repeat until the nervous system updates.

She is good on the distinction between introversion and anxiety, which get conflated constantly, and on why avoidance feels like relief and functions as fuel.