The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit: 25 Tools to Worry Less,
​Relax More, and Boost Your Self-Esteem
by Risa Williams


​ ​Available June 2021 through Jessica Kingsley Publishers in the US, UK, and Canada.

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Do you struggle with feeling anxious? Do you need help managing stress? Would you like to feel more confident? Then, this book is for you!  Packed with creative exercises, fun neuroscience facts, inventive worksheets and illustrations, The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit provides practical strategies and techniques for mastering everyday stressful situations. Using 25 easy-to-use tools, readers will discover new ways to worry less, relax more, and boost their self-esteem!

What People Are Saying...

“Can coping with anxiety really be fun? With this anxiety toolkit, it certainly is! Tools such as Task Extractors, Brain Bouncing, and Shrink Rays make scientifically-grounded strategies easily digestible, creative, and even entertaining! Risa Williams has transformed an overwhelming chore of tackling anxiety into succinct, light-hearted, actionable strategies that are useful at any age.”

​ - Erica Curtis, board certified art therapist, author of "The Innovative Parent: Raising Connected, Happy, Successful Kids through Art"  
“Williams helps us find the fun in combating our daily anxieties. It’s a brilliant approach. Her tools spark our creativity and help us realize that small shifts in our thinking can lower our stress levels. Her sharing of personal anecdotes makes her relatable and puts the reader at ease. This is the sort of self-help book that makes you feel like you can truly change your life and smile while doing it.”

– Ezra Werb, Educational Therapist and Author of “Teach for Attention! A Tool Belt of Strategies for Engaging Students with Attention Challenges”   
​“Williams’ book is filled with imaginative, creative ways to manage all sorts of anxiety with concrete, clear strategies you can try. It’s an easy-going read, and it has thoughtful personal antidotes that help make understanding anxiety relatable, and creative worksheets that help provide insight. I highly recommend this book!” 
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 -Eden Byrne, psychotherapist and EMDR practitioner
“After reading Risa Williams’ The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit, I found myself immediately underlining and highlighting various tidbits of her advice. Every day I read her book hungrily with a devotion to knowing that she is helping me have a better experience of myself. If you’re looking for practical solutions for anxiety, purchase this book!"  

– Miguel Chavez, Actor, (A.P. Bio/NBC) 

About the Author 

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Risa Williams is a licensed psychotherapist and online coach specializing in anxiety and stress reduction tools. She's been featured as an expert in Business Insider, Bustle, UpJourney, and HuffPost and she writes for Breathe Magazine and LA Parent Magazine. She's also an award-winning university professor with a background in the arts, and the co-author of the book, Cinescopes: What Your Favorite Movies Reveal About You (Quirk Books). In The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit, she provides 25 tools based on cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative therapy, mindfulness, and positive psychology to help readers feel more empowered to change their thinking patterns to more positive ones.

"This is the sort of self-help book that makes you feel like
​you can truly change your life and smile while doing it."

“Risa Williams is the ultimate battery recharger. In The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit she provides a step-by-step roadmap to transmute anxiety into accomplishment and fear into action. Loaded with neuroscience nuggets these exercises and short chapters provide practical advice for increasing confidence and writing yourself a new narrative.”

- Mike Sonksen, Professor and Author of "Letters to My City"
"Everyone is anxious sometimes, so everyone can benefit from The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit. The exercises are simple, practical and immediate and the neuroscience nuggets tell you how they work. The affirmations aren’t pie-in-the sky daydreams. They are statements you make come true with the help of Risa Williams' toolbox."

- Christina Elston, Editor of L.A. Parent Magazine 

"Can coping with anxiety really be fun? With this anxiety toolkit, it certainly is! "

The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit illustrations by Jennifer Whitney and Amanda Way

For book inquiries, contact: risawilliamstherapy@gmail.com
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