Best Podcasts for Anxiety & Stress (2026)
Anxiety doesn't always announce itself. Sometimes it's a tight chest on a Sunday evening, sometimes it's a 3am thought spiral that won't quit. These ten podcasts won't replace professional help, but they're genuinely useful companions — run by therapists, meditation teachers and people who've lived through it themselves. All are actively releasing episodes in 2026.
Waking up with a podcast on iOS
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1. Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris
Dan Harris had a panic attack on live television and turned it into a decade-long exploration of meditation and mindfulness. Now fully independent after taking ownership of the show in 2025, he interviews neuroscientists, therapists and meditation teachers three times a week. The episodes are practical without being preachy — Harris is a sceptic by nature, so every technique gets properly interrogated before he recommends it.
2. The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan has been putting out two episodes a week for over 800 episodes, and the consistency shows. Each one is around 20 minutes and covers a specific aspect of anxiety — sleep interference, relaxation-induced anxiety, nervous system regulation. Her voice is genuinely calming, and she treats listeners like adults rather than patients. It's a top 50 Mental Health show on Apple Podcasts for good reason.
3. Your Anxiety Toolkit
Kimberley Quinlan is a licensed therapist who specialises in anxiety, OCD and panic. The New York Times listed this as one of their six podcasts to soothe an anxious mind, and it earns the spot. Episodes cover everything from social anxiety to health anxiety to building your own exposure therapy plan, all grounded in evidence-based techniques like CBT and ERP. Clinical depth, accessible delivery.
4. Tara Brach
Tara Brach is a meditation teacher and clinical psychologist who has been sharing weekly guided meditations and talks for nearly two decades. Her approach blends mindfulness with self-compassion, and she has a particular gift for making you feel less alone in whatever you're carrying. If you've never meditated and find the idea intimidating, this is a gentle place to start.
5. The Anxious Truth
Drew Linsalata spent 25 years living with panic disorder, agoraphobia and clinical depression before fully recovering. Now training as a therapist himself, he brings both lived experience and clinical knowledge to weekly episodes that cut through the noise of online anxiety advice. Episode 336 dropped in January 2026, tackling how we catastrophise during tough moments. Blunt, honest, and genuinely helpful.
6. The Panic Pod
Joshua Fletcher is a psychotherapist, author and TEDx speaker who specialises in panic attacks, OCD and agoraphobia. He co-hosts with Ella Jean, and the conversational format makes heavy topics feel approachable. The show is evidence-based but never clinical — it sounds like two mates talking through what actually works when anxiety hits hard.
7. Meditation Minis
Chel Hamilton is a hypnotherapist who records guided meditations averaging around ten minutes each. They're designed to calm anxiety, ease overthinking and build confidence — short enough to fit into a lunch break or the gap before a meeting that's making you nervous. The podcast sits in the top 0.05% of all downloaded shows, which tells you something about how well it works.
8. The Calmer You Podcast
Chloe Brotheridge is a hypnotherapist and author of The Anxiety Solution, and her fortnightly podcast covers anxiety, confidence and nervous system regulation with a warm, practical tone. She brings on experts from mental health, nutrition and medicine, always pulling the conversation back to tools you can actually use. Over 240 episodes and still consistently good.
9. Calm It Down
Chad Lawson is a Steinway Artist and composer who started this podcast after listeners told him his piano music was helping them manage anxiety. Each 15-minute episode blends calming original piano with practical insights on stress, mindfulness and emotional awareness. Nearly 300 episodes deep, it's a different kind of anxiety podcast — less talking through problems, more creating space to breathe.
10. The Mindful Kind
Rachael Kable is a mindfulness coach who makes mindfulness feel straightforward rather than mystical. Episodes offer simple, practical exercises you can weave into your day — morning routines, mindful eating, dealing with anxious thoughts. The tone is gentle without being patronising, and the episodes are short enough to actually finish.
A calmer start to the day
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Waking up with a podcast on iOS
Podcast Alarm is a fully featured podcast player and alarm. You can set up queues of your favourite episodes and listen to them whenever you like. Why not subscribe to your favourite podcast and have the latest episode wake you up every weekday morning. There are lots of screenshots and videos in our "How to set a podcast as an alarm on iphone?" blog post.
