Restored Minds

12-Week Implementation Program

You understand Fear & Anxiety better than most. And yet you're still stuck.

This isn't just another course. It's a complete implementation program designed to help you actually apply the work, break the loop, and take back control of your life.

Apply for Taking Back Control

Application only · We'll review your situation personally

Does this sound familiar?

You know what you're supposed to do. You just can't do it when it counts.

  • You have the intrusive thought — and you spend hours ruminating on it.
  • You avoid situations, even though you know avoidance isn't helping.
  • You seek reassurance, and the relief wears off within the hour.
  • You try to figure it out, one more time, hoping this time it sticks.
  • You know what you're supposed to do — but you can't consistently do it when fear hits.

That gap between knowing and doing is exactly what this program is designed to close.

A message from Matt

Hear it from someone who's lived it.

Matt built Taking Back Control from the inside — after years stuck in the same loops and finding the framework that finally helped him break free. In this short video, he'll explain what the program is and who it's for.

What's actually been happening

Almost everything you've done to feel better has been feeding it.

The checking. The avoiding. The reassurance. The mental review at 2 a.m. Every one of them buys a few minutes and charges interest.

And here's the part that stings: you can use anything as a form of resistance if you're using it to get rid of fear and anxiety. Even the tools meant to help you.

That's exactly why understanding alone isn't enough — and it isn't something you fix by reading more carefully. It's something someone has to catch you doing, in real time, while you're doing it.

That's what the coaching is for.

Fear
loop

Trigger
Fear
Thought
Resistance
Compulsion
Brief Relief
Loop Repeats

The loop loses its fuel

Resistance falls away — the ring can't close.

How the coaching works

The loop runs on resistance. The Triple-A Response® dissolves it.

What actually fuels the loop is resistance — the effort to make the fear go away: checking, avoiding, reasoning, reassuring, trying to be certain. The Triple-A Response® is the one practiced move that meets fear without feeding it. In coaching you run it, in real time, until it becomes the thing your system reaches for on its own.

As the resistance falls away, the loop has nothing left to run on.

What you get

Here's everything that's included.

Taking Back Control isn't a video library you work through alone. It's a full implementation and coaching experience — several layers of structure and support working together.

The 12-Week Implementation Program

The structured core of Taking Back Control — a clear, step-by-step path through the principles, practices, and stages, so you always know exactly what to focus on next. Yours with lifetime access.

6 Months of Daily Live Coaching

Live group coaching every weekday — Monday through Friday, for six full months. Far more than one occasional call: real coaching, shared learning, and live support woven through your whole week, so when fear spikes or you get stuck applying the work, help is never far away.

Taking Back Control — live coachingLive
Matt Codde, LCSW, leading a live group coaching callMatt
Steven
Ana
Brian
Kyle
MonTueWedThuFri

On-Demand Guided Resources

A growing library you can turn to anytime — guided workshops, meditations, and releases to support your practice between sessions and long after the twelve weeks.

Guided libraryOn-demand
Workshops
Guided meditations
Guided releases

Personalized 1-on-1 Coaching

Individual coaching for a deeper level of support — personalized guidance based on exactly where you're getting stuck and what you need to work on next.

The 12-week journey

A structured path — not trial and error.

Each phase builds on the last, with the right focus at the right time. Nothing rushed, nothing skipped.

1Foundations
Foundations — Creating Safety & Orientation

Before real change can happen, your system needs clarity — not more effort.

In this stage, you learn how the OCD & Anxiety loop and the healing process actually work in the brain, body, and nervous system. As things begin to make sense, confusion and self-blame start to fall away — and urgency softens.

This stage is designed to help you:

  • finally understand why your symptoms feel so intense and unpredictable
  • recognize that the loop is a learned pattern — not a personal failure
  • stop misinterpreting fear as danger and start responding from clarity instead of urgency
  • see how avoidance, resistance, and safety behaviors unintentionally keep the loop alive
  • experience your first sense of internal stability and orientation
For many people, this is the moment they realize:
“Nothing is wrong with me — my system has just been stuck in the wrong pattern.”

This stage removes the “what’s wrong with me?” question — so your energy can finally go toward healing instead of self-monitoring.

This is where the fog lifts — and the ground underneath you starts to feel solid again.

2Weeks 1–6
Breaking the Loop — Changing Your Response

This is where the work moves from understanding to embodiment — and change becomes tangible.

Using the Triple-A Response®, you learn how to respond to intrusive thoughts, fear, and discomfort in a way that no longer feeds the loop, and instead retrains your brain and nervous system in real time.

Rather than analyzing, suppressing, or trying to get rid of fear, you practice meeting it correctly — through a clear, repeatable response that your system can actually learn from.

With consistent application, this response begins to shift from something you do to something your system defaults to.

This stage is designed to help you:

  • interrupt spirals before they gain momentum
  • remove compulsive and safety-driven reactions
  • retrain your nervous system to stop mislabeling fear as danger
  • build confidence through lived experience — not reassurance

For many people, this is where relief becomes real. Not because fear disappears — but because their relationship to fear fundamentally changes. You stop feeling at the mercy of your thoughts. Your body begins to stand down.

This is where the loop loses its grip — not through effort, but through repetition, retraining, and lived experience.

3Weeks 7–9
Going Deeper — Creating Lasting Change

By this point, the loop has begun to loosen.

You’re no longer reacting to fear the same way — and because of that, your system finally has the space to go deeper.

This stage is where the work moves beneath surface patterns and addresses the root-level dynamics that kept the OCD & Anxiety loop alive for years. Not by reliving the past. Not by digging endlessly. But by gently releasing what no longer needs to be carried.

In this stage, you’re guided to:

  • identify and release emotional patterns that formed around fear and protection
  • unwind belief systems that quietly shaped how you see yourself and the world
  • let go of fear-based roles, identities, and self-concepts that were built to keep you safe
  • resolve stored emotional and somatic stress that kept your nervous system on high alert

This is where change stops feeling fragile. Because you’re no longer building on top of fear — you’re removing what was feeding it. Your reactions soften. Your body holds less tension. And fear loses its ability to pull you back into old patterns.

This stage is what allows healing to hold over time — not because you’re trying harder, but because the underlying drivers have been addressed.

4Weeks 10–12
Living From Trust — Integration, Stability & Freedom

This final stage is where the work becomes who you are — not something you practice.

By this point, the loop has lost its authority. Fear no longer dictates your choices. And trust has begun to replace vigilance as your default way of moving through life.

In this stage, the focus shifts from healing to living.

You’re guided to:

  • stabilize the changes you’ve made so progress feels natural, not fragile
  • integrate trust into everyday moments — work, relationships, health, and decision-making
  • recognize early signals without reacting or spiraling
  • respond to future stressors from capacity instead of fear
  • build a life structure that supports regulation, presence, and self-trust

This is where relapse prevention becomes less about strategies and more about how you relate to yourself and uncertainty. Fear may still arise — because you’re human. But it no longer runs the show. Instead of checking, managing, or bracing against life, you move forward with a grounded confidence in your ability to handle what comes.

This is what it means to live from trust. Not a constant state of calm. Not a life without discomfort. But a stable, embodied sense of safety within yourself — one that carries into the future without effort or force.

This is where recovery stops being a phase… and becomes the foundation of your life.

Apply for Taking Back Control

Application only · We'll review your situation personally

What change looks like

Real people who learned to live from trust again.

Unscripted stories from members who were once stuck in the same loop. Press play.

Steven· Program member
Ana· Program member
Brian· Program member
Kyle· Program member
Jeremy· Program member
Amelia· Program member
Jake· Program member
Jessica· Program member
Sonu· Program member

“I feel more equipped than ever before to navigate life's challenges.”

I struggled with OCD & anxiety for decades and was very fortunate to connect with Matt. The focus here is on building tools, facing fears, putting in the hard work, and essentially becoming your own therapist.
— Tyler F., program member

“I highly recommend this program for individuals with OCD & anxiety.”

Matthew is truly gifted in his ability to give over the techniques and tools with extreme clarity, understanding, and encouragement. Enrolling in this program is truly an investment in oneself.
— Rachel Factor, LCSW, program member

“There's such a sense of peace knowing I'm not alone.”

I bounced around from different therapists and approaches without success. Once I began TBC I was filled with hope. There is such a sense of peace knowing that I am not alone and that anxiety is not a life sentence.
— Ben, program member

“From day one her outlook on life changed dramatically.”

It's hard to overstate how much Taking Back Control helped our family. My wife was willing to open her mind and work at it, and from day one her understanding of how to deal with the anxiety changed dramatically.
— Sam, program member

“You have done a great service to people with OCD and anxiety.”

Your techniques have really helped me — I can't thank you enough. There are still moments when OCD tries to catch me, but I'm able to see it clearly and follow the Triple-A Response. I feel so much better than just a few months ago.
— Joey H., program member

“Nothing ever felt a step too far away.”

The way the course unfolds couldn't be better — gradually introducing the concepts, understanding OCD and anxiety, and finally taking steps to recovery. I can absolutely say I'm now in a state of mind to live life on my terms.
— J. H., program member

“The best thing I've ever done for my mental health.”

I discovered Restored Minds when my thoughts were constantly racing. I needed help but didn't want medication. It taught me how to calm my thoughts and connected me with a community of people facing similar challenges.
— Gayla, program member

“The Restored Minds program has given me my life back.”

I've spent a lot of money and time with other therapists who couldn't help me address my anxiety & OCD. The program is simple to follow and makes the path to recovery so attainable. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
— K. H., program member

Individual experiences vary. Restored Minds is educational coaching, not a guarantee of specific results.

Matt Codde, LCSW, founder of Restored Minds

Who you'll learn from

Guidance from someone who's lived it.

Matt Codde, LCSW, didn't figure this out from the sidelines. For years he lived inside the same fear loops — intrusive thoughts, constant monitoring, trying to think his way to safety.

“I don't fix people. I walk alongside you, help you understand what's actually happening, and coach you as you build the skills to live in trust again.”

That lived experience — plus years of clinical training and study — is what led to the Triple-A Response® and the integrated approach behind Taking Back Control.

Before you apply

This isn't right for everyone, and I'd rather say so now.

This is for you if:

  • You already understand the loop and you still can't consistently interrupt it.
  • You've done therapy, or ERP, or the books, and something is still missing.
  • You want structure and people, not another library.
  • You're willing to be uncomfortable on purpose, repeatedly, for twelve weeks.
  • You can make two or three live groups a week.

This isn't for you if:

  • You want someone to reassure you that the feared thing isn't true. Nobody here will do that — reassurance feeds the loop.
  • You're looking for a course to work through alone. This is coaching; the groups are the point.
  • You want us to tell you it'll definitely work for your specific case before you start. Nobody can, and wanting that guarantee is usually the loop showing up at the decision.
  • You're in crisis right now. Please use the resources below — this isn't the right step in this moment.

Taking Back Control

The Coaching Program

Application Required

One complete experience — everything you need to actually implement the work and break the loop, with real human support the whole way.

  • 12-Week Implementation Program
  • Lifetime access
  • 6 months of daily live coaching (Mon–Fri)
  • On-demand guided resources
  • Personalized 1-on-1 coaching
Apply for Taking Back Control

Every application is reviewed personally. No pressure, no obligation.

Questions

Questions you might have.

Who is Taking Back Control for?

People who feel stuck in the fear loop — intrusive thoughts, anxiety, worry, avoidance — and are ready to change how they respond to fear rather than keep managing it. It's for those who want structure, coaching, and live support while they put the work into practice.

How is this different from just taking a course?

A course gives you information. Taking Back Control is built around implementation — a structured 12-week program plus daily live group coaching and on-demand guided resources, so you actually apply what you learn when fear shows up in real life.

How does the application process work?

The Coaching Program is application-based. You complete a short application about your experience and what you're looking for, our team reviews it, and if it's a fit we reach out with next steps.

Is Taking Back Control therapy?

No. Taking Back Control is educational coaching and a structured implementation program — not therapy, diagnosis, or treatment, and not a substitute for medical or mental-health care. Matt is an LCSW, but the program is coaching and education.

Do I need a diagnosis to participate?

No. You don't need a formal diagnosis. The program is built around the fear loop and how you respond to fear, which shows up in many forms.

How much time should I expect to commit?

It's a 12-week implementation program you move through at a sustainable pace, plus the practices you build into everyday life. Daily live group coaching is there every weekday when you need it.

What happens after I apply?

We review every application carefully. If Taking Back Control looks like the right fit, we'll reach out to walk you through the next steps. If it isn't the right fit, we'll tell you honestly.

Your next step

You don't have to keep trying to figure this out alone.

If you're ready for structure, coaching, and real support to actually apply the work, the next step is simply to apply. We'll personally review whether Taking Back Control is the right fit for you.

— Matt Codde, LCSW