Director of Applied Social Research

Lynne Henderson, Ph.D., is Co-director, with Dr.Philip Zimbardo, of the Shyness Institute, and was the director of the Stanford Shyness Clinic from 1982 to 2007. She is currently an adjunct faculty member in Continuing Studies at Stanford University.

Her primary clinical research interests have involved translating the results of personality theory and social psychology into effective group and individual treatment strategies for extreme shyness and social anxiety disorder, culminating in the development of a health maintenance treatment model called Social Fitness Training, which is now manualized.