Unseen Minds Practitioner® Training
Formerly Aphantasia Therapist Training
The certification is being redeveloped. The next version adds live teaching and cohort-based learning, and it will open to a founding cohort first. Join the waiting list to hear before anyone else.
The credential
The field has moved, and the training is moving with it
When this certification launched, almost nothing existed for therapists working with invisible cognitive differences. It was built to fill that gap, and it has: seven of the ten therapists currently listing aphantasia as a specialism on Counselling Directory trained with the Academy.
What has become clear since is where the training could go further. Practitioners consistently ask for the same things: more time working through real presentations together, somewhere to bring a client they're stuck with, and contact with others doing the same work.
Those aren't things a self-paced course can give you well. They need live teaching, a cohort, and a group that moves through the material together.
Rather than add to the existing programme, it's being rebuilt around that. Enrolment is closed while that work happens, because it wouldn't be right to sell the current version to someone who would rather have the next one.
Where the work is going
The five differences and the clinical framework stay. How you learn them changes.
Live teaching
Taught sessions rather than recorded modules alone, so you can ask the question you actually have while you're working through the material.
Cohorts
Moving through the programme with a group at the same stage, which is how most practitioners say they learn clinical skills best.
Case work together
More time on real presentations, including the ones you're currently stuck with, worked through as a group rather than read about.
Be part of the founding cohort
The rebuilt certification will open to a founding cohort before it goes any wider. Waiting list members hear first, and founding cohort places will be offered at founding cohort pricing.
- First to hear when dates are announced
- Founding cohort places and pricing
- A say in how the programme runs
- No commitment, and unsubscribe any time
You don't have to wait to start
Both of these are available now, and both count towards your CPD.
Aphantasia Foundations
A complete five-module training covering aphantasia in depth, with practical adaptations you can use in your next session. An aphantasia-informed intake questionnaire, the Verbal-Somatic Framework, technique reference cards and a full case study workshop.
CBT For Invisible Cognitive Differences
A 25-minute on-demand masterclass on why some clients don't respond to standard CBT, covering all five differences and what to do differently. The best place to start if this work is new to you.
Already an Unseen Minds Practitioner®?
Your certification stands. The credential you hold is unaffected by the redevelopment, your directory listing continues, and graduates will be told first about how to access the new material.
