Books by Lucy Willetts
Can I Tell You About Anxiety?
A book for children, friends, family and professionals about anxiety, how it presents, and what helps
Helping Your Child with Fears and Worries
A self-help guide for parents supporting children with fears and worries.
New book - September 2026
Mastering Life with ADHD
A self-help guide for teenagers diagnosed with ADHD.
Overcoming Your Child's Fears and Worries
A book for parents about strategies they can use with their anxious child to help them overcome their anxiety.
Overcoming Your Child's Shyness and Social Anxiety
A book for parents about strategies they can use with their shy or socially anxious child to help them overcome their anxiety
Books by other authors
Am I Depressed and What Can I Do About It?
An age-appropriate self-help guide for young people experiencing low mood and depression.
Cool Connections with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
A CBT workbook for children and young people aged 9 to 14.
Teenage Depression: A CBT Guide for Parents
A CBT guide for parents supporting a teenager with low mood.
Touch and Go Joe
An adolescent’s account of living with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck
An accessible book to help children understand and manage OCD.
Programmes
Overcoming Programme
The Overcoming Programme is a guided self-help CBT programme for parents of anxious children developed by Lucy Willetts and Cathy Creswell. It involves 8 sessions for parents, 4 of which are conduc...
Radio
Woman’s Hour: Shy Children
A Woman’s Hour programme about shy and socially anxious children.
Woman’s Hour: Unhappy at School
A Woman’s Hour programme about children who are unhappy or anxious at school.
Websites
Mood Juice
Resources and booklets for people dealing with anxiety and other difficulties.
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Readable, user-friendly and evidence-based information about mental health.
YoungMinds
Information and support for children and young people’s mental health.