# Episode 69 | Social Anxiety in Context: A Culturally Responsive CBT Lens with Dr. Janeé Steele Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-affirming-minds-podcast-7020030/episode-69-social-anxiety-in-context-a-culturally-responsive-cbt-lens-with-dr-jane-steele Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-affirming-minds-podcast-7020030/episode-69-social-anxiety-in-context-a-culturally-responsive-cbt-lens-with-dr-jane-steele.md Podcast: [The Affirming Minds Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-affirming-minds-podcast-7020030) Published: 2026-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shaina-siber-sanderowitz.mykajabi.com/podcasts/the-affirming-minds-podcast/episodes/2149171520 Audio file: https://app.kajabi.com/podcasts/medias/2149171520.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-affirming-minds-podcast-7020030/episodes/episode-69-social-anxiety-in-context-a-culturally-responsive-cbt-lens-with-dr-jane-steele Duration seconds: 3179 ## Resource   Course Information: https://www.canva.com/design/DAHCtVcZ2Tg/hk7ToqoD3ZDMAqyACKanZA/view?utm_content=DAHCtVcZ2Tg&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h4dd8cd6de7 --- Episode Summary: In this episode of  The Affirming Minds Podcast , Dr. Janeé M. Steele joins the conversation to explore social anxiety through a culturally responsive CBT lens. The discussion examines the core mechanisms that maintain social anxiety — including anticipatory processing, safety behaviors, and post-event rumination — and how these patterns intersect with lived experience, systemic bias, and stereotype threat. Dr. Steele outlines practical strategies for differentiating between irrational fear and rational responses to discrimination, adapting exposure hierarchies with attention to real-world risk, using broaching to explore identity within the therapeutic relationship, and integrating micro-interventions and self-affirmation into clinical practice. This episode offers clinicians concrete tools for delivering evidence-based treatment while honoring the broader social and cultural context in which anxiety develops and is maintained. --- About Our Guest: Janeé M. Steele, Ph.D. is a licensed professional counselor, counselor educator, and diplomate of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies. Dr. Steele is also the owner of Kalamazoo Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, PLLC, where she provides therapy, supervision, and training in cognitive behavior therapy. Her research focuses on counselor training, social justice, and culturally responsive approaches to therapy. She is the author of the book  Racism and African American Mental Health: Using Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Empower Healing , and has published in peer-r… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-affirming-minds-podcast-7020030/episodes/episode-69-social-anxiety-in-context-a-culturally-responsive-cbt-lens-with-dr-jane-steele/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-affirming-minds-podcast-7020030/episode-69-social-anxiety-in-context-a-culturally-responsive-cbt-lens-with-dr-jane-steele.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.