The Social Mind Clinic
Work with a small team of experienced therapists and coaches specialising in social anxiety, performance anxiety, public speaking anxiety, self-consciousness and fear of being seen.
Every clinician is personally selected by Sophia for their expertise and ability to connect, trained in the Social Visibility Framework™, and receives ongoing consultation in applying the approach.
Meet The Handpicked Team
Sophia Spencer
Specialisms:
public speaking
high stakes environments
performance & visibility
self-consciousness
social anxiety
panic attacks and anxiety
trauma
Therapies: EMDR, CBT, ACT, CFT, Coaching
Fee: £135
Founder + Director
Emily Hill
Specialisms:
public speaking
panic / anxiety attacks
general anxiety
self esteem and confidence
self worth
Therapies: CBT, ACT, CFT, Coaching
Fee: £120
Self Esteem + Confidence Specialist CBT TherapistCommon Challenges We Work With
These issues rarely exist in isolation - often several show up together, and that's completely normal.
Social / Performance Anxiety
E.G. feeling anxious before presentations, networking events, socialising or important meetings. Not speaking up in group dynamics. Avoiding opportunities for visibility that could advance your career. Anxiety ahead of auditions/interviews that impacts performance.
Public Speaking Anxiety
E.G. avoiding presenting or opportunities, struggling with visceral anxiety symptoms that impact performance, unable to collect thoughts, feeling embaressed by public speaking.
PTSD and Trauma
It’s not uncommon for traumatic experiences, whether professional or personal, to impact how we show up in the world today. This is something that often comes up in my work. Common themes include humiliation trauma, complex trauma, lack of attunement, neglect, poverty, bullying, growing up ‘different’ in some way and more.
Imposter Syndrome
E.G. Feeling like a fraud despite your achievements and qualifications. worrying others will discover you "don't belong" somehow, attributing success to luck rather than your capabilities.
Feeling Different
E.G. having a different way of seeing or understanding things, but instead of viewing yourself as a valuable maverick, feeling like an outsider or that you are wrong somehow. Perhaps feeling stupid / weird / inept etc.
Inferiority
E.G. Feeling easily triggered into feeling ‘below’ people even though there is no reason to feel this way, a sense of never being enough.
Social Media / Press Presence
E.G. avoiding social media despite knowing it’s necessary for your visibility, struggling to show up authentically, unable to tolerate negative comments and press, feeling humiliated by negative coverage.
Visibility Toleration
E.G. Struggling to speak up in meetings or challenge the status quo, feeling uncomfortable being seen as an expert or thought leader, playing small to avoid criticism or standing out too much, avoiding opportunities for success.
Anxiety and Panic
E.G. Constant worry and fear about different or specific things, vigilance of bad things going wrong, struggling to control and manage your thoughts, physical anxiety symptoms, behavioural anxiety e.g. avoidance, struggling with eye contact, trying to control your behaviour.
The FrameworkThe Social Visibility Framework™
Our clinicians are trained in Sophia's five-stage framework for understanding and working with difficulties around social evaluation:
The framework isn't a therapy model itself. Our clinicians use established evidence based psychological approaches within their own areas of expertise, while bringing a shared understanding of the social processes that can keep these difficulties going.
