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Understanding is the first step. Our recovery team has been exactly where you are — and every one of them has come through it completely.
"When you understand what anxiety actually is, the fear of having it begins to dissolve. That is where recovery begins."
Austin Thomas
Anxiety Recovery Practitioner — LAR Certified
From Our Recovery Team
Every coach at The Linden Method has personally been through severe anxiety — and fully recovered using the same approach they now teach.
A personal note from Plum
Anxiety Recovery Practitioner — LAR Certified
Depersonalisation and derealisation were the most frightening things I have ever experienced — the feeling of watching my own life from the outside, of not being real, of the world being a flat and meaningless backdrop rather than something I was actually part of.
Most of the people I tried to describe it to had never heard of it. Several therapists I saw had limited experience with it. I felt completely alone in something I couldn't explain and couldn't find information about that didn't make it sound permanent.
I searched for years. I tried grounding techniques, sensory exercises, dietary changes. I had periods of improvement followed by crashes. The condition always came back.
The Linden Method explained what depersonalisation and derealisation actually are — anxiety symptoms generated by a chronically elevated fear response — and why the techniques commonly recommended for them can accidentally reinforce the very state that produces them.
Once I stopped doing those things and started addressing the underlying fear response, the symptoms began to fade. I recovered fully. I now support clients experiencing DP/DR specifically, because I know how frightening and isolating it is, and how few people actually understand it.
"Depersonalisation is one of anxiety's most frightening symptoms — and one of the most recoverable, when you approach it correctly."
Plum
Anxiety Recovery Practitioner — LAR Certified
A personal note from Caz Perkins
Anxiety Recovery Practitioner — LAR Certified
For years, crippling anxiety was my entire world. There were days I couldn't leave the house, couldn't answer the phone, couldn't hold a conversation without fear rushing in. Friends didn't understand. Doctors offered medication. Nothing resolved it.
I tried many routes — counselling, CBT, breathing techniques, self-help books. All of them offered partial relief at best. None of them explained why the anxiety kept returning, no matter what I did or how hard I tried.
Finding The Linden Method was the turning point. It wasn't another technique to layer on top of the anxiety. It was a genuine explanation of why anxiety persists — and a clear, simple path out of it.
I made a full recovery. Not a partial recovery — a full one. And I have been coaching ever since, because I believe completely that what worked for me can work for you.
"Full recovery from anxiety is not a lucky outcome for a few people. It is a predictable result when you address the right thing in the right way."
Caz Perkins
Anxiety Recovery Practitioner — LAR Certified
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