Our research team has designed a self-applied therapeutic program for the treatment of fear to speak in public through Internet. The program includes an evaluation module with several questionnaires that help to complete the diagnostic of social phobia and to obtain detailed information about the problem. After the assessment the program designs a personalized treatment with an individualized hierarchy of exposure. When the assessment is finished, “Talk to me” informs the user whether the program can help them or it is recommended for them to search help with a professional. The treatment modules are divided into two sections: a psycoeducative module about anxiety, phobias, its treatment, how to modify negative thoughts related to social phobia, and the main module with exposition exercises to overcome the fear to speak in public where the user has several scenarios to talk in public with different videos and a real audience: a class, a work meeting, a wedding and a congress.

The innovative issue of our program is that the users do not have access to all the program and can only access to the more advanced parts after overcoming a task. The program has been recently validated in a controlled study (Botella et al, 2010). The study shows that the program is equally effective that the same program applied by a therapist. “Talk to me” has been translated into English and Dutch. Our next goal is to translate it into other languages.