Find support

Find someone who already understands how your mind works.

If you've sat opposite a therapist or coach who kept asking you to picture things, or to remember how something felt, and you had nothing to give them, the problem was never you.

Everyone listed here has trained with Aphantasia Academy in multisensory aphantasia, SDAM, anauralia, anendophasia and alexithymia. You won't have to explain from scratch.

Trained, not just interested

Every practitioner here has completed structured, CPD-accredited training with us, not a webinar or a blog post.

Assessed, not self-declared

Unseen Minds Practitioner® is a credential. It's awarded on completion and assessment, not claimed.

You choose who fits

Contact any practitioner directly. There's no referral fee, no matching service and no obligation.

Section one

Therapists and counsellors

Qualified therapists and counsellors who hold the Unseen Minds Practitioner® credential, having completed the Therapist Track and its assessment.

Unseen Minds Practitioner® · Therapist Track
Emma Bennett

Emma Bennett

BSc (Open), MBACP · Neurodiversity Counselling Specialist
Meadowbrook Counselling · Eastham, Wirral · in person and online

Emma works neuro-affirmingly and integratively, with a particular interest in clients for whom traditional approaches haven't worked. She uses a short memory exercise in the first session to establish how someone actually processes, so the work can be built around it rather than assuming.

Lived experience: multisensory aphantasia and SDAM.

She also specialises in pregnancy and infant bereavement, and fertility.

All five differences Neuro-affirming Taking clients
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Beatrice Mae Ecob-Larsen

Beatrice Mae Ecob-Larsen

MBACP, MA, BSc, BSc, Dip · Pluralistic Psychotherapist
Freedom Psychotherapies · North Aberdeenshire · in person, online and walk and talk

Bea trained after trying and failing to find a counsellor who could work with her own way of thinking and processing. She works somatically and creatively, including sand tray work for clients who find words and images hard to reach for.

Lived experience: all five, including multisensory aphantasia, SDAM, anauralia, anendophasia and alexithymia.

She also specialises in neurodiversity, disability, LGBTQIA+ and GSRD-affirming practice.

All five differences Somatic and creative Taking clients
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Susan Livingstone

Integrative Therapist and Hypnotherapist
SE Wellbeing · London · in person and online

Susan trained after working with clients who had aphantasia and wanting to be more useful to them. She brings creativity to the work, using different questions to open up conversations about processing differences and finding language that fits when the usual prompts don't.

Works across: all five differences.
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More practitioners joining shortly

Further Unseen Minds Practitioner® graduates are completing their directory profiles and will appear here soon.

Section two

Coaches

Coaches who completed the Advanced Neurodivergent Coaching Skills and Practice training, which covered all five invisible cognitive differences.

Aphantasia Academy trained · Advanced Neurodivergent Coaching Skills and Practice
Sassy Smith

Sassy Smith

Founder, Aphantasia Academy
Online · UK based, working internationally

With more than 30 years of coaching experience, Sassy works with people facing stress, overwhelm and burnout, blending coaching practice, positive psychology and bespoke approaches built for minds that established models don't fit.

Lived experience: all five, including multisensory aphantasia, SDAM, anauralia, anendophasia and alexithymia.

Author of Unseen Minds and creator of the Unseen Minds Practitioner® credential.

All five differences Limited availability
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Phyllis Woodfine

Phyllis Woodfine

The Whole Life Empowerment Coach
Online

Phyllis brings over two and a half decades of experience leading in health and care settings. Her approach is down to earth and light-hearted, working with women on confidence, clarity, direction and breaking through barriers.

Confidence and directionLeadership
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Sonia Davies

Sonia Davies

Therapeutic Coach
Online

Sonia holds a Professional Diploma in Therapeutic Coaching and works to International Coaching Federation standards. She holds a safe space for clients to explore themselves deeply, guiding them towards self-acceptance.

Therapeutic coachingICF standards
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Dany Griffiths

Dany Griffiths

Founder of The Feeling Zone · Emotional Empowerment Educator
Online

Dany teaches that all feelings and emotions are useful, including the uncomfortable ones. Her focus is on why feelings get stuck in the first place and how correct emotional processing prevents it, which makes her work relevant to anyone who finds emotions hard to name.

Emotional processingRelevant to alexithymia
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Jasmine Lewis

Jasmine Lewis

Blooming Beings · Coach and Reiki Practitioner
Online

Jasmine studied psychology and counselling before training as a coach, and has over ten years supporting people to thrive at work. She believes nobody should be labelled broken for not conforming to a model or theory, and works on self-acceptance, confidence and managing change.

Lived experience: Jasmine is neurodivergent.
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For practitioners

Want to be listed here?

The directory is open to practitioners who hold the Unseen Minds Practitioner® credential. Complete the Therapist Track, pass the assessment, and you can apply for a listing.

If you're already qualified and your clients keep hitting the same wall, this is where to start.