Social Anxiety Group Therapy:
What Is It? Can It Help You?

Social anxiety group therapy is where 5-10 clients and 1 or 2 therapists organise and practice 'role-plays' of typical anxiety-provoking social situations.

The theory is that by practicing such situations, you'll begin to feel more comfortable about trying them in real life.

Is Social Anxiety Group
Therapy Helpful?

Classes are not regular enough to give you any substantial improvements. The subconscious mind needs time to adapt to 'non-anxious', and there's not enough time for this, in a weekly social anxiety group therapy class.

Also, you'll probably accidentally be using behaviours in the class that help to sustain the anxiety. In all likelihood, your therapist won't help you to correct those behaviours.

Therapists tend to work with your thoughts, which doesn't work so good because SAD is a subconscious problem.

It's not good to be surrounded by
other anxious people

Whilst practicing social situations should help, you're also surrounded by other anxious people in a social phobia group therapy session. 

When you're trying to recover, you really need calm people to be unintentionally influencing you. 

Other anxious people, through no fault of their own, are bad influences.

Overall, group therapy for social anxiety is not very helpful at all.

The Best Way To Treat
Social Anxiety Disorder

The best way of treating social anxiety disorder lies in a self-help approach.

You don't need health professionals because by talking with you about the problem, they help make it worse.

If none of the above links have quite enticed you enough, then my article Overcoming Social Anxiety is a good place to go next.