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The Institute of Applied PsychophysiologyTRT™ — The New Standard for Mental Health Recovery
Anxiety Recovery
Coaching.
When anxiety is taking over your life, you need more than information. Work with a coach who has experienced anxiety and recovered — someone who listens, understands and helps you put TRT™ into practice, one step at a time.
For individuals and groups, with corporate memberships for organisations. Choose 1-to-1 support or ask about group coaching.
Recovery Options
Someone who understands
You don't have to work this out on your own.
When anxiety affects your sleep, work, relationships or confidence, knowing what to do next can feel overwhelming. Your coach listens to what you are experiencing and helps you turn the recovery programme into practical steps that fit your life.
Know what to do next
Understand what is happening and work through TRT™ with guidance, rather than trying to piece everything together alone.
Get help along the way
Bring your questions and difficulties to your coach. Work on applying the programme in everyday life and reviewing your progress together.
Sessions are available by Zoom, phone or FaceTime, so you can speak to your coach from home. Ask the team about availability and a time that suits you.
Meet the people who can help
Find a coach you feel comfortable with.
Each coach has experienced anxiety, recovered and trained in TRT™. Read their stories, see who you connect with, or ask us to help you choose.
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Kathy Donovan
Senior Anxiety Recovery Practitioner
With over 20 years on the Linden team, Kathy brings extensive experience helping people move beyond anxiety.
Generalised anxiety · Panic attacks · Health anxiety
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Ben Tams
Anxiety Recovery Practitioner
Ben understands anxiety that starts early and follows you into adult life. Since 2018, he has supported people from many walks of life.
Generalised anxiety · Chronic fatigue · Panic attacks
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Samuel Thomas
Anxiety Recovery Practitioner
A professional actor who recovered from anxiety himself, Samuel understands how hard it can be to struggle while others expect you to perform.
Intrusive thoughts · OCD · Panic attacks
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Marilyn Bryce
Anxiety Recovery Practitioner
Marilyn knows the exhaustion of searching for answers. Having recovered herself, she helps others find a clear way forward.
Health anxiety · Panic attacks · Derealisation
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Lara Stagg
BACP-accredited Anxiety Recovery Practitioner
Lara brings professional training and her own experience of health anxiety and panic to her work with people seeking recovery.
Health anxiety · Panic attacks · Generalised anxiety
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Caz Perkins
BPS-accredited Anxiety Recovery Practitioner
Caz recovered after years of anxiety and now helps others who feel caught in worry, rumination and social anxiety.
Generalised anxiety · Worry · Social anxiety
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Austin Thomas
BACP-accredited Anxiety Recovery Practitioner
Austin brings the personal understanding of someone who has recovered himself to every coaching session.
Health anxiety · OCD · Compulsions
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Helena Cole
BPS-accredited Anxiety Recovery Practitioner
Helena's own experience of anxiety and recovery helps her understand what you are going through, without judgement.
Anxiety · Panic · Agoraphobia
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Emma Haines
Anxiety Recovery Practitioner
Emma understands what it feels like to have tried many things and still be struggling. She supports others with the compassion she received herself.
Panic attacks · Generalised anxiety · Health anxiety
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Julia Kruk
Anxiety Recovery Practitioner
Julia knows how exhausting constant overthinking can be. After her own recovery, she now helps others rebuild confidence and feel present in everyday life.
Generalised anxiety · Overthinking · Social anxiety
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Dino Goold
Anxiety Recovery Practitioner
Dino has experienced health anxiety, agoraphobia and panic himself. He now guides others through the recovery process that helped him.
Health anxiety · Agoraphobia · Depersonalisation
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Rachel Wood
RGN MSc · Former National Lead for Students, Royal College of Nursing
Rachel combines her nursing background with personal experience of anxiety and recovery, offering knowledgeable support and understanding.
Anxiety · Panic attacks · Generalised anxiety
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Joss Heenehan
Anxiety Recovery Practitioner
Joss recovered from intrusive thoughts, agoraphobia and depersonalisation. An accredited LAR coach since 2021, he understands how impossible recovery can once have felt.
Pure-O · Agoraphobia · Depersonalisation
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Tell us a little about what you are going through. We can help you choose a coach and explain the options, fees and availability before you decide.
Ask about coachingExplore the research behind the programme — if you'd like to
What people experienced
People reported much less anxiety.
In a review commissioned by NHS Shropshire, 61 people answered the same standard anxiety questionnaire before and after the programme.
Their answers showed a substantial improvement. As a group, their average anxiety score went from severe anxiety before the programme to very low anxiety afterwards.
Read the full studyThe group's average improvement
84.5%
lower anxiety questionnaire scores, on average
Before the programme
Severe anxiety
After the programme
Very low anxiety
These are averages across 61 people. They do not mean that 84.5% of people fully recovered. Individual results vary.
How these results were measured
The questionnaire is called GAD-7. It asks about anxiety symptoms and gives a score from 0 to 21. The group's average score fell from 18.28 (severe anxiety) to 2.84 (minimal anxiety), a drop of 15.44 points, or 84.5%.
The review was commissioned through NHS Shropshire and analysed by Martin Jensen (Kingston University / University of Copenhagen). Of 100 people invited, 61 took part. It compared their answers before and after the programme, without a separate comparison group.
The results show a change in reported anxiety symptoms. They do not establish that the programme is better than other treatments or guarantee lasting recovery for every person.
Statistical analysis: Wilcoxon Z = −6.802 · p < .001.
Choosing well
Different approaches.
A different starting point.
CBT works with thoughts and behaviours. Counselling creates space to talk. TRT™ puts persistent threat responses at the centre of recovery — with a structured plan and a coach to help you put it into practice. Understand the differences, and choose your next step with confidence.
TRT™ Therapy
Persistent threat responses: a structured recovery process centred on threat recalibration, with personal coaching.
Delivery: Online programme, at your own pace, with a certified coach.
Evidence: NHS Shropshire-partnered outcomes evaluation: 61 participants, 84.5% reduction in mean GAD-7 score. Not a head-to-head trial. Source for TRT™ Therapy (opens in a new tab)
CBT
The relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviours; testing beliefs and practising new responses, including exposure.
Delivery: Structured therapist sessions and practice between sessions.
Evidence: Well researched and recommended by NICE for generalised anxiety and panic disorder. Source for CBT (opens in a new tab)
EMDR
Processing distressing memories with guided bilateral stimulation, commonly eye movements.
Delivery: Structured sessions with an appropriately trained therapist.
Evidence: Recommended by NICE for specified adult PTSD presentations. That is not evidence for every anxiety condition. Source for EMDR (opens in a new tab)
EFT / tapping
Tapping on points of the body while focusing on distress and using verbal statements.
Delivery: Practitioner-led sessions or self-applied techniques.
Evidence: A 2025 review of seven trials reported promising symptom reductions, but methodological limitations prevented firm conclusions. Source for EFT / tapping (opens in a new tab)
Counselling
A supportive, exploratory relationship: discussing experiences, feelings, difficulties and possible ways forward.
Delivery: Regular conversations with a trained counsellor.
Evidence: A broad family of approaches; suitability and outcomes depend on the therapy and the difficulty being addressed. Source for Counselling (opens in a new tab)
Hypnotherapy
Focused attention and therapeutic suggestion to influence how a person experiences and responds to distress.
Delivery: Sessions with a hypnotherapist, sometimes alongside other therapy.
Evidence: A 2019 meta-analysis reported anxiety benefits, especially alongside other interventions; it did not evaluate TRT™. Source for Hypnotherapy (opens in a new tab)
Always speak to your GP before changing medication or stopping any treatment. TRT™ can be used alongside other care.
The science underneath
The alarm can sound
before the thought.
Joseph LeDoux’s research distinguishes non-conscious defensive responses from the conscious feeling of fear. You can experience an automatic threat response before you have words for it — anxiety is not simply a failure to “think positively”.
Research on inhibitory learning explains how new experiences can change learned fear responses. TRT™ brings a focus on persistent threat responses into structured recovery work and coaching.
These papers explain fear and learning science; they are not trials of TRT™. The GAD-7 paper explains how the anxiety questionnaire was tested. Programme-specific results are reported separately above.
Read the science behind TRT™LeDoux, J. E. (2014). Coming to terms with fear. PNAS, 111(8), 2871–2878.
Distinguishes non-conscious defensive processes from conscious feelings of fear.
Read the paper (opens in new tab)Craske, M. G. et al. (2014). Maximizing exposure therapy: An inhibitory learning approach. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 58, 10–23.
Explains how learning and new experiences can modify conditioned fear responses.
Read the paper (opens in new tab)Spitzer, R. L. et al. (2006). A brief measure for assessing generalized anxiety disorder: the GAD-7. Archives of Internal Medicine, 166(10), 1092–1097.
The validation study for the symptom measure used in the reported programme evaluation.
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Your route
A clear path, with someone walking it with you
Understand
Complete the ANXAPP assessment so your coaching is targeted from day one.
Begin
Start the TRT™ programme straight away, online, with no waiting list.
Be coached
Meet your certified coach, a person who has recovered themselves.
Build your everyday life
Apply the recovery practices in real life and review your progress with your coach.
The Program
What you receive
The Complete TRT™ Therapy Program
The full structured recovery protocol — the same system used by 650,000+ people globally since 1996.
Personal Coach Access
One-to-one support from a CLI-certified TRT™ Therapy coach, available throughout your program.
ANXAPP Diagnostic Access
Complete the evidence-based 65-question anxiety assessment before you begin — so your coaching is targeted from day one.
Lifetime Program Access
Once enrolled, you retain access to the full program materials with no time pressure or renewal required.
Community & Support Network
Access to the CLI member community — a structured environment of people at every stage of the same recovery journey.
Conditions Addressed
Support across the anxiety spectrum
Anxiety conditions share a common fear-learning mechanism, and TRT™ coaching is designed around it.
- Panic Disorder
- Generalised Anxiety Disorder
- OCD & Pure-O
- Social Anxiety
- Agoraphobia
- Health Anxiety
- Emetophobia
- PTSD
- Postnatal Anxiety
- Derealisation
- Fear of Losing Control
- Low Mood
Questions
Anxiety coaching — answered
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