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The Anatomy of Panic: A Certification for Coaches

MentorsPro Professional Certification Program | 16 Modules | Starting 8 December 2026, Tuesdays 12:00 to 4:00 PM ET

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The Certification the Coaching Profession Has Been Missing

Panic disorder affects an estimated 8–10 million adults across the UK and US alone — and a significant proportion of them are high-functioning professionals who will never enter a therapist’s office, but who will, at some point, sit across from a coach.

Most coaches are not trained for that moment.

Working With Panic is a rigorous, evidence-based certification designed to change that. Over 16 modules, you will learn to recognize panic and related anxiety presentations in your coaching work, understand what is happening biologically and psychologically, know exactly where the line sits between coaching and clinical territory, and coach your clients with confidence, competence, and care.

This is not a wellness course. This is professional training at the intersection of coaching, neuroscience, and clinical knowledge — delivered by MCC-credentialed coach and published author Daniela Aneva.

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Program Format

Duration: 10 live sessions · 4 hours per session · 40 hours total live training

Rhythm: One session every two weeks — enough space to read, practice, integrate

Format: 100% live online via Zoom, small cohort

Start Date: 8 December 2026

Language: English

Certification: MentorsPro Certified Coach — Working With Panic

The bi-weekly rhythm is deliberate. Panic work is not something you absorb in a weekend intensive. You need time between sessions to observe it in your practice, try new approaches with real clients, journal, and return with questions.

The program is built around that rhythm of learn → apply → reflect → return.

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What You Will Learn

The 16 modules are structured across four developmental phases:

Phase 1 — Understanding Panic

Module 1 — What Panic Actually Is The biology of the panic response, the difference between a panic attack and panic disorder, and why most popular explanations get it wrong.

Module 2 — The Anatomy of a Panic Attack Ten minutes, physiologically dissected. What the body is doing, why, and what it is not doing (despite what the mind is telling the client).

Module 3 — The Shrinking World: How Panic Disorder Develops Avoidance, anticipatory anxiety, and the progressive contraction of a life around whatever still feels safe.

Module 4 — Recognizing Panic in the Coaching Room How panic presents in high-functioning professionals — often hidden beneath achievement, perfectionism, and apparent composure.

Phase 2 — The Clinical Landscape (So You Can Coach at the Right Edge)

Module 5 — The Evidence Base: CBT, ACT, and What Works An honest overview of the therapies that treat panic — so you know what your clients may be doing clinically, and how your coaching can complement it.

Module 6 — Mindfulness, Somatic Approaches, and the Body Why the body is central to panic recovery, and which somatic principles coaches can ethically integrate into their work.

Module 7 — Panic and Its Cousins: GAD, Health Anxiety, Social Anxiety The overlapping anxiety presentations every coach will encounter, and how to recognize each.

Module 8 — Panic With PTSD, Grief, and Life Transitions When panic is downstream of trauma, loss, or major life change — and why this changes how you hold the work.

Phase 3 — Coaching With Panic in the Room

Module 9 — The Scope of Coaching: Where the Line Sits The single most important module. When to coach, when to refer, and how to have the referral conversation with skill and care.

Module 10 — Contracting for Panic-Aware Coaching How to structure agreements that honor what coaching can and cannot do — protecting both the client and yourself.

Module 11 — Presence, Safety, and Grounding Practical tools for stabilizing a coaching session when anxiety enters the room, without crossing into therapy.

Module 12 — Coaching the High-Functioning Anxious Client The executive, the founder, the senior leader who is panicking in private — how to serve them without colluding with the armor.

Phase 4 — Integration and Certification

Module 13 — Panic at Work: Burnout, Performance, and the Professional Self Panic in high-stakes careers, impostor syndrome territory, and the coaching work that can genuinely help.

Module 14 — Working Alongside Therapists and Healthcare Providers Collaborative care. How to hold your lane while supporting the broader system around your client.

Module 15 — Ethics, Boundaries, and Coach Self-Care What panic work asks of you as a coach, and how to sustain the work without absorbing what is not yours.

Module 16 — Certification: Case Review and Integration Present a case, receive feedback from Daniela and peers, and complete your certification.

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Who This Program Is For

• ICF-credentialed coaches (ACC, PCC, MCC) who want to serve clients with anxiety presentations competently and ethically
• Executive and leadership coaches whose clients increasingly present with high-functioning anxiety and burnout
• Internal coaches in organizations where mental health at work is a growing reality
• HR and people professionals who coach as part of their role
• Therapists who also coach and want a clear framework for distinguishing the two

This program is for coaches. It is not a clinical training, and it does not qualify participants to diagnose or treat panic disorder.

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What Makes This Program Different

Built on an original body of work. The curriculum draws directly from The Anatomy of Panic, Daniela’s forthcoming book combining rigorous clinical science with twenty patient stories across cultures, professions, and life circumstances.

Honest about scope. Most coach training on mental health topics is either too clinical (leaving coaches confused about what they can actually do) or too vague (leaving them unprepared when real distress arrives). This program holds the line with precision.

Bi-weekly rhythm, not an intensive. You will have time to integrate. Time to try it in your practice. Time to return with questions.

Small cohort, senior leader. Led by Daniela Aneva, MCC, ACTC — one of a small number of coaches globally at the Master Certified Coach level, and the founder of MentorsPro.

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Your Lead Instructor

Daniela Aneva, MCC, ACTC Founder & CEO, MentorsPro LLC | Co-founder, EMCC USA

Daniela holds the Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential — the highest distinction awarded by the International Coaching Federation — alongside the ACTC, EMCC ESIA, Chartered MCIPD, and SHRM-CP credentials. She is the author of The Anatomy of Panic and has spent over two decades working at the intersection of executive coaching, leadership development, and the human experience of high-pressure professional life.

She brings to this program both clinical rigor and lived fluency in the world her clients inhabit.

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Certification

Coaches who complete all 16 modules, participate in case discussions, and submit a written case integration will receive the MentorsPro Certified Coach — Working With Panic designation.

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Ready to Hold This Work?

Cohort size is limited to protect the depth of discussion and case work that defines the program.

Program Start: 8 December 2026, 4 hours per session, every Tuesday from 12:00 to 4:00 PM ET.