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You Already Coach Neurodivergent Clients - No Specialty Required

A 3-month, ICF-approved mentor coaching program for coaches pursuing ACC renewal or, PCC credential hours.

Here's What's Probably Happening in Your Sessions Right Now

You're sitting across from a client, doing everything a good coach is trained to do, and something still isn't landing.

Not the goals. Not the relationship. Something underneath.

Maybe it looks like this:

A client who keeps "not following through" on action steps they genuinely wanted to take.
A client whose thinking seems scattered until you realize it's actually moving in a pattern you just haven't learned to follow yet.
A client who goes quiet at exactly the moment you expected momentum.

Here's the truth most coach training never covers:

Up to 80% of older adults remain undiagnosed with conditions that affect how they think, focus, regulate emotion, and sustain energy. Nearly 1 in 3 adults manages something, chronic stress, Long COVID, ADHD, anxiety, menopause, an autoimmune condition, that actively shapes their brain chemistry. And only 17% of people will ever tell you.

Your clients don't always disclose. They don't always know themselves. But they show up and they need you to meet them where their brain actually is, not where your training assumed it would be.

Statistically, it's more likely than not that at least one client on your roster right now falls into that group. Whether your coaching helps them or quietly loses them often comes down to one thing: whether you were ever taught to deeply notice, beyond deeply listening.

support your progress with Neuro-informed mentor coaching

This isn't a small gap. It compounds, for your clients, and for your practice.

For the client sitting across from you:

Overwhelm gets coached as resistance. Cognitive load gets coached as a motivation problem. The intervention doesn't fit the actual issue, so it doesn't work, and neither of you fully understands why.
A client who doesn't feel understood rarely tells you that directly. They just quietly stop renewing.

For your practice and your credential:

Every session where you coach the symptom instead of the root problem is a session that doesn't build the kind of client trust that turns into a long-term connection or referrals.
If you're working toward your ACC renewal or PCC, your CCE clock is already running. Every quarter you wait to close this gap is a quarter you're not banking the continuing education hours your renewal or new credential requires.
The coaches around you who do develop the literacy for noticing what's below the surface of emotions are the ones building the reputations and the referral networks that will compound over the next decade of their practice.

None of this means you're doing something wrong. Coach professional development is meant to be an evolutionary journey where each investment you make in your learning creates new opportunities. This program helps you close another gap.

Why We Built This Program

A 3 Month Neuro-informed Mentor Coach & CCE Program

A client of Denice’s was promoted to her organization’s executive team, and in this new role needed to expand her capacity for strategic thinking. She was feeling overwhelmed and worried about attending a series of conferences she had found exhausting in the past. Familiar with her nervous system and how she was growing as a leader, we did a couple of mindfulness exercises together to quiet both our minds. Then we explored some of her assumptions about the purpose of attending conferences in her new role, and that’s the moment her shoulders relaxed and the overwhelm shifted. We helped her to create a new set of assumptions and specific actions she could take at the conference to have a more regulated and satisfying experience. And it worked!

Denice Hinden, PhD, MCC, and George Thorman PCC, met in a mentor coaching certification program and became fast colleagues. With Denice's nearly two decades of leadership coaching experience and thousands of coaching hours. and George’s decade of experience coaching people who are neurodivergent or navigating challenging health conditions, they found deep common ground in their shared missions of using neuro-informed methods to help clients thrive. Together we built Think Different, Coach Better because the standard ICF curriculum, thorough as it is, is still evolving around how to teach coaches how to recognize the neurobiology patterns showing up in almost every caseload.

What Changes When You Coach With a Neuro-Informed Lens

This isn't a framework you bolt onto what you already do. It's a shift in what you notice and noticing changes everything downstream of it.

✓ You stop reading overwhelm as resistance. You start reading it as cognitive load, and you coach differently as a result.

✓ You develop nervous system awareness, yours and your client's and learn to use regulation as a coaching tool.

✓ You ask cleaner, clearer questions that don't accidentally create shame for clients who process differently.

✓ You hold space for identity exploration, late diagnosis, and masking, burnout in a way that supports clients to move forward.

✓ You apply ACC and PCC-level ICF competencies with the depth and sensitivity that earn trust across neurodivergent and neurotypical clients alike.

Better coaching begins with noticing how people think. By the end of 12 weeks, you will know more about neurodiversity and you'll coach differently, in every session, with every client, whether or not they ever use the word.

Inside the Think Different, Coach Better Mentor Coaching Pro

A 12-week, ICF-approved program combining live mentor coaching, integrated neuroscience education, and individual coaching support, built around a morning or evening cohort so it fits inside a practice you're already running.

Week 1 Foundations

Neuroscience, ethics, intersectionality, and psychological safety.

Week 2 Masking, Burnout & Trust

Building trust in the coaching relationship when clients are managing masking or burnout.

Week 3 Listening & Language

Communication that supports nervous-system regulation.

Week 4 Accountability & Autonomy

Working with flexible executive functioning instead of against it.

Week 5 Identify & Scope

Identity, diagnosis, and scope-of-practice boundaries.

Week 6 Bias & Ableism

The self-audit every coach should do.

Week 7 Edge Cases

Somatic tools for presence in difficult moments.

Week 8 Brave Conversations

Real-world advocacy inside the coaching relationship.

Week 9-12 Individual Mentor Coaching

Four 1:1 sessions with Denice or George, scheduled at your convenience.

Here's Everything Included When You Enroll:

✓ 10 hours of ICF mentor coaching

8 live group mentor coaching sessions, 30 minutes of neuroscience and neurodiversity education, followed by integrated mentor coaching practice

✓3 individual mentor coaching sessions with Denice or George, scheduled at your convenience + written feedback of submitted recordings

✓ + 10 CCE credits toward your ACC renewal, or PCC credential

✓ Your choice of morning or evening cohort, same curriculum, same access to Denice and George

✓ A complimentary Client Discovery Intake Questionnaire & Coach’s Guide, to help you build a neuro-informed intake process from your very first session

✓ A small cohort of 10 coaches, real feedback on real recordings, not a lecture hall

Meet Your Mentor Coaches

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Denice Hinden, PhD, MCC

Denice Hinden, PhD, MCC is an International Coaching Federation Master Certified Coach and Certified Mentor Coach, with nearly two decades of coaching experience. Her first mentor client recently earned her MCC credential. With 18 months of mentor coaching experience, Denice brings a fresh perspective to her clients’ success. Her commitment to neuro-informed leadership development is inspired by the determination of neurodivergent nonprofit leaders she coaches.

George Thorman, PCC

George Thorman PCC, is an International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach, Certified Mentor Coach and a Senior Practitioner with the EMCC with over 15 years of experience specializing in emotional wellness. With 18 months of mentor coaching experience, George is dedicated to helping coaches move beyond standard coaching modalities. Her commitment to neuro-inclusive mental health support is inspired by her lived experience as a parent and foster parent to neurodivergent children.

Our Commitment to Your Learning

Notice. Discern. Respond.

The same framework we teach in mentor coaching guides how we support every participant. If something isn't working, we encourage you to notice it early, share it with us, and give us the opportunity to respond thoughtfully.

Our Learning Commitment

We believe great coaching begins with noticing. The same is true of great learning. If the program isn't meeting your expectations, we encourage you to tell us. We'll listen, discern the best path forward with you, and respond in a way that reflects our commitment to your learning and growth.

If the Program Isn't the Right Fit

If, after fully participating in the first group session, you don't believe the program is the right fit for your learning goals, please let us know within five business days of that session. We'll talk together about the best path forward, which may include additional support, transferring your registration to a future cohort, or, when appropriate, an 80% tuition refund to offset administrative and program preparation costs.

Our Ongoing Commitment

Growth isn't always linear, and questions or concerns sometimes emerge as coaches stretch, practice, and develop new skills. If something isn't working for you during the program, we encourage you to tell us early. Together, we'll notice what's getting in the way, discern what would be most helpful, and respond with the support we can provide to make your learning experience as valuable as possible.

Our goal is simple:

To create a mentor coaching experience that helps every participant think differently, coach better, and leave more confident about neuro-informed coaching than when they arrived.

What coaches tell me after completing a mentor coaching coho

"Denice shows genuine support to bring the best out of my ideas. She listens deeply and beyond what I am saying, expands how I am thinking, to see clearly and come up with specific actions. The biggest shift that I came to be cognizant of as a result of working with Denice is that she considers many aspects of a given theme."

Coach, JA Lee, MCC 2026

“George Thorman is the kind of coach who changes lives — not through flash or fluff, but through grounded wisdom, deep empathy, and masterful skill. She’s a coach’s coach — steady, brilliant, and absolutely dedicated to human growth."

Colleague, Tania G, 2025”

“George is truly a pro at coaching and helping people bridge the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Anyone looking to achieve results and grow will benefit immensely from working with her."

Colleague, Zak Drake, 2025

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