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.
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 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.
She also specialises in pregnancy and infant bereavement, and fertility.
Beatrice Mae Ecob-Larsen
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.
She also specialises in neurodiversity, disability, LGBTQIA+ and GSRD-affirming practice.
Susan Livingstone
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.
Krissy Kelly
Krissy trained after working with a client who has aphantasia, wanting to support her in a way that actually worked. She found that narrative approaches asking a client to tell the story of a particular time could quietly exclude people with these differences, and now adapts to work with the client rather than against them.
She keeps printed images of calm and safe spaces for clients who can't picture them, and uses a whiteboard so clients can draw a feeling or map their thoughts as the session goes.
More practitioners joining shortly
Further Unseen Minds Practitioner® graduates are completing their directory profiles and will appear here soon.
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
Phyllis Woodfine
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.
Sonia Davies
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.
Dany Griffiths
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.
Jasmine Lewis
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.
The Aphantasia Coach
Private work with Sassy Smith
For those who want to work directly with the person who trains the coaches and therapists.
Through Aphantasia Academy, Sassy Smith trains therapists, counsellors and coaches to work effectively with aphantasia and related invisible cognitive differences.
She is the best-selling author of Unseen Minds and has spent years at the forefront of understanding what these differences mean beyond the research, in therapy, coaching, work, relationships and everyday life.
Alongside her work training professionals, Sassy maintains a small private practice for individual clients who want access to that expertise directly.
Her work brings together professional coaching experience, deep knowledge of the research, extensive work with practitioners and clients, and lived experience of the cognitive differences she teaches others to understand.
Sassy works with only a small number of private clients at any one time. Private work is by enquiry and begins with a conversation to establish whether working together is the right fit.
Enquire about private work with SassyWant 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.
