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Welcome to The Linden Centre's Free Advice Library
- Articles by Charles Linden on eliminating your anxiety conditions permanently
- Frequently asked questions about The Linden Method (every detail of how to maximize your benefits from The Linden Method Programme)
- A history of The Linden Method and its development from Charles' spare room to the world's most respected anxiety elimination programme
- Charles Linden biography
- Contact us. How to get in touch with our anxiety elimination specialists
History of The Linden Centre
The Linden Centre was founded in the summer of 1996. Charles Linden had spent over 12 months, with a substantial group of research subjects suffering from anxiety, OCD, agoraphobia and post traumatic stress disorder and some assistance from psychologists and doctors, identifying what it was that all recovered anxiety sufferers had done to cause their recovery – Charles collated his findings into a structure, which became the cornerstone of what was to become The Linden Method programme. Charles then used the programme he created to rid himself of 25 years of anxiety, OCD and agoraphobia in days. Now, 14 years later, Charles has used The Linden Method to help over over 149,000 clients to recover.
The Science of The Linden Method
The science of The Linden Method is based on three principles:
- The work of two of the world's most eminent scientists, John Broadus Watson and Burrhus Frederic Skinner, both pioneers in the American School of Behaviourism, who discovered how the brain adopts new behaviours in a learning process called Operant Conditioning.
- Neuroplasticity – The process that replaces anxiety conditions with non-anxious behaviour.
- The science of emotion discovered by Karl Lange and William James – Charles' programme stops the cycle that causes the emotion of fear to perpetuate.
These principle discoveries form the foundation for The Linden Method and underpin the science that makes it work.
Charles Linden's Research
Bringing together Charles Linden's research findings and that of Watson, Skinner, Lange and James, The Linden Method was created to expedite the process of learning responsible for complete anxiety elimination and total, permanent recovery.
After a two year window, during which time, The Linden Method was used by over 9,000 anxious clients who fed back results to The Linden Centre, providing Charles with data he needed to perfect the techniques – the changes these subjects experienced where dramatic and permanent. In 1998, The Linden Method in its structured programme form was available to the general public around the world through Charles' first anxiety elimination website.
Humble Beginnings Over 14 Years Ago
Using a home website creation tool, Charles designed the first Linden Method website and printed and bound The Method himself on a home printer. The CDs were recorded at home and edited by Charles. The idea was to create a series of media items that would communicate The Method effectively, the crucial factor was to supply a programme that speeded up the recovery process and instilled in the sufferer the 'learning' which causes recovery.
Life Changing Results
The results experienced by Linden Method users were unprecedented and, as word spread both on and offline that a new treatment was available, client numbers started to grow and feedback was incredible, with very few negative comments and then only about the quality of the audio or video.
The Linden Method Specialists
The Linden Method support team is made up of the most highly experienced and qualified anxiety specialists in the world and unlimited access to them is provided free of charge to every Linden Method programme user. Charles only employs qualified psychologists and counsellors as Linden Method specialists.
Where Are We Now?
Charles went from running the enterprise from his spare room single-handedly to employing three staff in year two to the large staff he now employs in 5 centres around the world, all staff are dedicated to supporting and guiding clients to recovery using the fastest route possible.
In 1992, Lifewise Publishing was formed as the publishing arm of the organization and as a vehicle for The Linden Method and the other anxiety disorder related products Charles had developed over time.
Charles' Other Work
Charles was asked to contribute at this point to a number of magazines, newspapers and radio programmes and The Linden Method began advertising in a number of international publications that gave the centres the instant visibility it needed to grow. In the following three years, The Linden Centre clients grew exponentially at a rate of knots to where we are today having helped over over 149,000 international clients to become anxiety free.
The Emotions Research Consortium was formed in 2009 and Charles was invited to join the team as a founder member, headed by himself, Dr Francis Teeney and Professor Roddy Cowie of Queen's University, Belfast and Dr David Mickle and Kyle Davies.
Our Clinical Referrals Programme
In 2002, after a chance meeting with a mental health professional at a conference venue in London, Charles set up his clinical referral programme, enabling community psychiatric workers, doctors, psychologists and other mental health workers the opportunity to refer clients to the centres. This caused immediate relief for many thousands of sufferers who had been in 'the system' for long periods, using drug therapies or trapped in constant therapy sessions that proved fruitless for them.
This referral programme has since formed the basis for a number of relationships both in the public and private sectors and has formed the foundation for The Linden Centre's ongoing relationship with national health services.
Government Trials
After the initial meeting with Charles Linden during the Government trials of The Linden Method, the four young people were asked to complete feedback, developed specifically for the trial. Below are scans of those forms as completed by the subjects. We have 'blacked out' names for confidentiality. Bear in mind that these four people were referred to us as 'problem cases' because they hadn't responded to the medications, counseling, support and psychotherapy they had been receiving, in most cases, over a number of years. Charles was with them initially for just one hour each and the results. Read for yourself how it changed their perspective.
Scan 1 Scan 2 Scan 3 Scan 4Ongoing Research & Development
The repackaging and redevelopment of key elements of the programme pack have been ongoing and its current form, we feel, is the best provision for anxiety elimination in the world. The programme material is easy to access, read, listen to and watch and the packaging is light and pleasant to receive BUT, more importantly, the resource received inside that packaging and through the support team is second to none globally.
The Linden Centre now has bespoke corporate stress and anxiety elimination programmes, DVDs, CDs and Charles' TV series called Stress Less with Charles Linden is airing around the world. Charles' Stress Free in 30 Days programme received The Times Newspaper's MUST READ accolade and went to number one in Amazon.
Linden Method Workshops
Impromptu Linden Method workshops, which were requested by clients, have prompted The Linden Centres to create regular Linden Method workshops that are now a reality. The DVDs of our Linden Method workshops are now available, led by Jenny Saunders, our in-house psychologist and Charles Linden.
Linden Method Residential Retreats
Our Linden Method Residential Anxiety Recovery Retreats invite clients from around the world to attend a three day immersion into the Linden Method anxiety recovery process; with curative effects. Clients from America, Russia, Europe, Australia and Asia have been in attendance.
Karmamind
The Linden Centres do very little real world advertising as most new clients are received as referrals. The Linden Centre also opened the doors of its shop Karma Mind in July 2005 providing sufferers with access to hand picked items which support and expedite recovery. Hand picked and tested by Charles himself, these products are hard to find elsewhere.
The Charles Linden Foundation
The Charles Linden Foundation was formed in response to a requirement for a charitable arm to the organization. Many requests for financial assistance when joining the Linden Centre programmes would come to us from all corners of the earth, so Charles founded the foundation to raise funds to allow young people and children free access to our stress and anxiety programmes without having to concern themselves with costs.
Charles has always carried out much charity work and also pro-bono casework; especially with children, as child anxiety is a subject very close to his heart.
The Linden Centres
In recent years, the headquarters of The Linden Centres International has moved offices a number of times in order to accommodate the dramatic growth in its client base.
The Linden Method's 'place in the world'
The Linden Method is now the most successful and respected anxiety elimination programme in the world, with clients in over 170 countries. Charles is widely regarded as a world leader and authority in the field of anxiety elimination and addresses workshops, seminars and provides material and research to national bodies, health organizations, radio, TV and news broadcasters.
It is amazing to look back and see how far The Linden Method, the Centres and the Foundation have come since their humble start in Charles' spare room. We are eternally grateful to all our clients, especially those who have provided the invaluable testimonials we have received and the organizations which have helped us become what we are today. The Linden Centres, The Linden Method client base, Charles' involvement in new initiatives, ideas and organizations grow constantly.
THANKS!
If you are an existing Linden Method member, thank you for your trust, if not, we hope that you will decide to become a participant and discover for yourself just how effective The Linden Method programme is at changing lives. We know what we achieve here eclipses any other anxiety elimination device, it's why we are referred to by medics, it's why we work with government agencies, it's what makes us so very different.
We were told recently that The Linden Method is now widely regarded by medics and psychologists as 'a new branch of psychological practice' a fact of which we are very, very proud.
Please contact us if you have any questions or queries.
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