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Linda Robson — best known as Tracey Stubbs in the long-running BBC sitcom Birds of a Feather and as a panellist on Loose Women — is a passionate supporter of The Linden Method after her son Louis Dunford achieved a complete recovery from severe anxiety disorder.
Louis was 20 years old when he suffered his first panic attack. Within days, he had developed agoraphobia, OCD and acute anxiety. He became effectively housebound — unable to attend his sister’s wedding, stopping eating, stopping seeing friends. Linda and her husband tried everything: doctors, counsellors, psychologists, therapists, hypnosis, meditation, EFT. Nothing worked. Then they found Charles Linden and The Linden Method.
Charles Linden
"“One of the most incredibly talented and kind people I have ever met. Louis has an incredible mind. His talent as a lyricist and songwriter is one thing but his almost cellular ability to make music, play instruments and create music will make him an international star, of that I have no doubt. Louis’ recovery from anxiety, panic and agoraphobia has enabled him to pursue his true calling and to become the person, son, performer and friend to me and The Linden Method that he has become.” — Charles Linden"
Linda wrote the following statement about Louis’s experience and recovery:
“As an actress who’s worked in the business for over forty five years, anxiety has been something I’ve had to deal with for a very long time. Anxiety is a normal part of my job. It’s the feeling I get in my stomach before walking into an audition. The butterflies I get before walking on stage in front of thousands of people. The nerves I experience five minutes before appearing live on TV. To be honest, I don’t know anyone in my world who hasn’t had to deal with anxiety in some shape or form.”
“What I was unaware of was that thousands — if not millions — of people all over the world experience these same feelings of anxiety on a daily basis whilst living their lives. The same feeling I’d get before performing in front of thousands of people others would experience in the checkout queue in Tesco. I was unaware that there were people in the world who suffered with anxiety disorders and panic attacks every day of their lives. That was until my son became one of them.”
“My son was twenty when he suffered his first panic attack. Within days of his first panic attack my son was a prisoner in his own room. He locked himself away. He stopped eating. He stopped seeing his friends and couldn’t attend his big sister’s wedding. We tried everything. Doctors, Councillors, Psychologists, Therapists, Hypnosis, Meditation, EFT. Nothing seemed to work. If anything it just made his anxiety worse.”
“After months and months of trying so hard but getting no results we almost lost hope. But then we found Charles Linden. After countless Doctors trying to persuade us to give our son all sorts of medication and after every Therapist and Councillor he ever visited telling him he would need weekly sessions for the rest of his life, here at last was a Method that claimed you didn’t need any of this in order to become anxiety free. And after countless ‘Ists’ whose understanding of anxiety went no further than a paragraph in a text book, here at last was someone who really knew what our son was going through as he had been through it all and much worse himself.”
Linda Robson
"“My son is not only anxiety free but is living a fuller life than he ever has done before. No more agoraphobia, no more OCD, no more panic attacks. No more bloody anxiety. Our house is back to normal. Our lives are back on track and the future is exciting.” — Linda Robson"
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The Linden Method uses Threat Recalibration Therapy (TRT™), a structured process designed to recalibrate the automatic threat response that keeps anxiety active. Its focus is the response behind persistent fear, rather than managing each symptom separately. Explore the explanation, evaluation and real recovery experiences, or go straight to the program options.
See the reported outcomes: the evaluation cohort’s average anxiety score moved from 18.28 (severe) to 2.84 (minimal). Read the evaluation for the study details, alongside clients’ own accounts of recovery.
View recovery program optionsThe Linden Method · Fear deactivation
Anxiety can feel like an alarm that has forgotten the danger is over. The Linden Method explains what keeps that alarm switched on — and the process for deactivating it.

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 Jodie
Anxiety Recovery Practitioner — LAR Certified
OCD and intrusive thoughts consumed more than a decade of my life. Not the kind you see joked about online — the relentless, exhausting, terrifying kind that makes you question who you are and whether you can trust your own mind.
I spent years hiding it. Functioning on the outside while inside I was engaged in an exhausting battle with thoughts I couldn't control and rituals that gave me minutes of relief before the anxiety returned, stronger than before.
Multiple therapists. ERP. Medication. I committed fully to every treatment I was given. Some of it helped at the edges. None of it stopped the cycle.
The Linden Method reframed everything. The thoughts were not the problem — the elevated anxiety state producing them was. Once I understood that, and once I stopped engaging with the thoughts as though they were meaningful threats, the cycle collapsed.
I recovered completely. I now specialise in supporting people with OCD, Pure-O, and intrusive thoughts because I understand, from the inside, how isolating and misunderstood these conditions are — and how completely recoverable they are.
"OCD is not a life sentence. It is a fear response that has found a very specific channel. Change the response, and the channel closes."
Jodie
Anxiety Recovery Practitioner — LAR Certified
A personal note from Mandy
Anxiety Recovery Practitioner — LAR Certified
My anxiety began with the birth of my first child. What should have been the happiest period of my life became one of the most frightening — postnatal anxiety that went unrecognised for months, then hardened into panic disorder and intrusive thoughts about my baby's safety.
The shame of it was enormous. How could I be anxious when I had so much to be grateful for? That question made everything worse, because it added guilt on top of fear.
I tried antidepressants, CBT, and a postnatal support group. The group helped me feel less alone. The CBT gave me some tools. But the anxiety persisted through two more pregnancies and into my youngest child's school years.
When I found The Linden Method, I was finally given the biological explanation that made sense of everything I had experienced. The anxiety wasn't a reflection of my character or my love for my children. It was a learned pattern in my nervous system — and it could be changed.
I recovered. I now work specifically with mothers experiencing postnatal anxiety, intrusive thoughts around their children, and the guilt and shame that so often accompany those experiences. This is a condition I understand from the inside, and it is one that responds beautifully to the right support.
"Postnatal anxiety is not a reflection of your love or your capability as a mother. It is biology — and biology can change."
Mandy
Anxiety Recovery Practitioner — LAR Certified