Named course designers
Meet Alana Robinson and Kirsty Hawker, read their qualifications and see who is responsible for the material.
Meet the creators →Psychology-informed learning
Feel steadier in the patterns that keep repeating.
Practical courses, workbooks, and reflective tools for anxiety, attachment, boundaries, burnout, self-worth, and relationships — clear, grounded, and made for real life.
BSc psychology-informedPlain languagePrivate library
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Managing Anxiety
A psychoeducation course for understanding anxiety, how it develops, how it commonly presents, and evidence-informed ways of living well alongside it.
Topics
Understanding what anxiety is and why it happens · Recognising patterns that can keep anxiety going · Exploring common forms of anxiety without self-diagnosing
£49.99
Explore →Start here
Begin with what feels most familiar.
You do not need to know whether you need a course, workbook, or tool yet. Start with the pattern you are trying to understand, then choose the level of support that fits.
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I feel anxious or panicky
Understand the alarm without fighting it
Explore →02I keep burning out
Find steadier boundaries and recovery
Explore →03Relationships feel complicated
Make sense of patterns, closeness, and repair
Explore →04I do not know where to begin
Use a guided chooser instead of guessing
Explore →Ways to use HMS
Choose the format that fits your day.
Read, reflect, learn in sequence, or keep your resources together in one private place.
Guided learning
Courses
Structured learning for when you want a clear path, a considered sequence, and support you can return to.
Printed & digital
Workbooks
Professionally printed guided workbooks, with digital editions available for selected titles.
Your space
Library
Your private place for courses, downloads, saved reflections, and tools.
First steps
Free resources
Articles, app tools, and practical starting points before you choose a course or workbook.
HMS in your pocket
Take a practical starting point with you.
The free Happy Mind Society app brings practical tools, reflective prompts, and psychology-informed support to your phone.
What you can verify
Clear people, evidence and boundaries.
We do not rely on invented reviews or guaranteed outcomes. Our trust signals are the people, sources, standards and privacy choices you can inspect for yourself.
Sources you can inspect
Course lessons connect psychological teaching to research, recognised guidance and further reading.
Read our standards →Published scope
We explain what educational support can offer, what it cannot replace and when additional help matters.
Check our boundaries →Privacy-conscious learning
Private reflections are not used for advertising, and account data is handled under a published privacy policy.
Read the privacy policy →Browse by need
Find the topic that sounds closest.
Topic pages gather courses, workbooks, and starting points around the same underlying pattern.
Why HMS exists
Two university friends, one shared frustration.
Happy Mind Society began when Alana Robinson and Kirsty Hawker met at university while studying psychology and counselling. Their BSc studies gave them common ground — and a shared concern about how hard it was to find trustworthy, evidence-informed support online.
Too much wellbeing advice felt either clinical and unreachable, or confident but poorly grounded. They set out to build something more useful: warm, plain-language courses, workbooks, and tools that respect the science without losing sight of the person using them.
HMS is educational rather than clinical. It helps people understand their patterns, reflect without shame, and find practical next steps at a pace that feels manageable.
From the blog
Psychology-informed ideas for ordinary, difficult days.
Sleep
Why Your Brain Waits Until Midnight to Start Shouting
Why anxiety can feel worse at night, why racing thoughts show up at bedtime, and one practical way to give your brain somewhere else to put them.
Read article →Stress
Chronic Tension? How to Release Stress That Gets Trapped in the Body
How stress can show up as jaw tension, shallow breathing, headaches, and fatigue — and why somatic exercises can help.
Read article →Burnout
Tired vs. Burnt Out: How to Tell the Difference Before You Hit a Wall
The difference between ordinary tiredness and emotional burnout, plus one small starting point for recovery.
Read article →Understanding a pattern is not the same as being stuck with it.
That is the centre of the work: enough insight to make room, enough structure to know what to try next, and a pace you can realistically stay with.
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