The Center for Help for Anxiety & Agoraphobia through New Growth Experiences
(or CHAANGE for short)
For over 40 years, CHAANGE has been helping people learn the truth about their anxiety, how to unlearn destructive habits and relearn productive healthy behaviors with their groundbreaking 16 week at-home program.
Founded by anxiety sufferers and run entirely by former CHAANGE participants, we know not just what you're going through, but the steps you'll need to take as you complete your healing journey!
The History of CHAANGE
CHAANGE was founded in 1979 by Ann Seagrave, Faison Covington, and their therapist Lou Owensby L.C.S.W.
Seagrave and Covington, having recovered from their own severe anxiety conditions, realized that their experiences could be helpful to others. Together they developed the CHAANGE center to help individuals, by providing tools and resources to assist patients in learning new coping skills, attitudes, and behaviors to alter their limiting anxiety and/or phobias.
Their book, Free From Fears, details their respective journeys and describes the therapeutic process of the CHAANGE Anxiety Treatment Program, which has provided hope and freedom to hundreds of thousands of anxiety sufferers.
In 2019, Dr. Charles Barr took over as director of CHAANGE, Inc. and the CHAANGE Anxiety Treatment Program.
Who We Are
Dr. Charles R. Barr, Ph.D.
Director of CHAANGE, Inc.
Dr. Barr is a Clinical Psychologist who practices in Pasadena, California. As a graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Psychology he holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and a Masters in Theology, so he is conversant in matters of faith as well as matters of thought, feeling, perception, and learning.
Following the Whittier earthquake in October, 1987, during which he had his first massive panic attack, Dr. Barr was introduced to the CHAANGE Anxiety Treatment Program which successfully cured his anxiety in 16 weeks.
He then began to specialize in treating anxiety disorders in 1988 as an affiliated therapist of CHAANGE.
The treatment of anxiety, panic, agoraphobia, fears, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), phobias, social anxiety, etc. became a passion of his.
Dr. Barr is a member of the American Psychological Association and the California Psychological Association and the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA).
In February, 2012, Dr. Barr was featured in an episode of ˆDog Whisperer with Cesar Millan. The episode is entitled "Hounded by Fear" and was shown on Nat Geo Wild.
“It is because we can speak in terms of a cure for panic for many folks that I continue to be excited about the CHAANGE Anxiety Treatment Program and about treating anxiety. This is one of the most rewarding things I do. I love walking with people as they walk their way out of the fear of fearful feelings. I tell people that if what they feel is anything like what I felt in my panic, it is truly suffering and we must do everything we can to get them free.”
In 2019, Dr. Charles Barr, took over as owner and director of CHAANGE, Inc. and the CHAANGE Anxiety Treatment Program and brought the program online for the first time.
Dr. Barr can be heard each week on the Life Free of Anxiety podcast with his co-host and former patient, Erica.
