Nobody searches for your job title
At 11pm, someone types “brain fog won’t lift” into a search bar. Someone else is looking for help with their teenager’s focus, their mother’s memory, or a concussion that everyone says should be better by now. They’re looking for a person who understands the problem, and too often that person is invisible online.
The directory works the other way around. Members are listed by the problems they help with, in plain language, with a community of peers behind every listing.
What founding members get
Your listing and the community are free for the founding 200, for as long as you’re a member.
A listing in your own words
The problems you help with, the people you work with, where you are and how to reach you. It takes about 20 minutes, and you can edit it any time.
A community of peers
An interdisciplinary group of people doing brain health work, with panels, member spotlights and honest conversations about hard cases. Members who want to teach or speak can step into panels and spotlights.
Paid upgrades, if you want them
Practice and business building support opens in 2027 for members who want help growing a brain health service line. It’s optional, and your founding membership stays free whether you add it or not.
Who it’s for
Clinics adding brain health
You run a counseling, physio, nursing, longevity or wellness practice, and patients are already asking about sleep, focus, brain fog and memory. A founding listing gives that new service a home people can find, alongside clinic owners building the same thing.
Professionals already doing the work
You might be a counselor, nurse, brain coach, neurofeedback practitioner, researcher or educator. You’re doing the work, and people can’t find you. A founding listing puts your name and your focus in front of the people looking.
If your work touches brain health, in any profession or setting, you’re welcome here.
To join, your listing just needs to show some brain health interest, expertise or training.
The founding offer
For as long as you’re a member
Your listing and community membership cost nothing. You won’t enter a card, so there’s nothing to cancel.
To finish your listing
A completed listing holds your place. If yours isn’t finished within 30 days, the place goes to the next person. We’ll help if you get stuck.
Founding places
Founding closes once 200 listings are complete or on 31 December 2026, whichever comes first.
A month for new members after that
Founding members keep their free membership after founding closes.
Know someone who belongs in the founding 200? Founding members can nominate colleagues, and an invitation from someone they know means more than one from us.
Nominate a colleagueYour practice stays yours
Membership never touches how you practice. You won’t be handed protocols to follow or products to promote, and nothing about membership steers or rewards a treatment, prescribing or referral decision, whether it involves us or a partner.
We make your work findable and your peers reachable. We don’t certify anyone, because the Brainnovation Network is a professional network and directory rather than a credentialing body. Members describe their own work on their own listing, and the people reading it make their own choices.
Is your clinic ready to add brain health?
5 statements and about 3 minutes. You score it yourself, and anyone can join whatever the result.
Practicing on your own? You can skip this and go straight to your listing.
Who’s behind it
Brainnovation is run by people who’ve spent their careers bringing new brain health care into clinics.
Tanja Yardley
Founder and CEO
Tanja has brought new health technology into clinics for 30 years and knows what makes it stick for the team running it. She leads the clinician community herself.
Balraj Dhillon
Co-Founder, Technology Partnerships
Balraj led clinical practice for years before moving into brain health technology. He matches clinics with the tools that suit their patients and their space.
Collin Adams
Co-Founder, Provider Partnerships and Training
Collin builds the coaching and training that clinics, sports teams and workplaces use to run brain health programs.
Advisory board
21 specialists across medicine, research and rehabilitation who screen the technology Brainnovation brings to clinics.
Dan O’Brien, MD, MBA, PhDHealthcare innovation and strategy
Nicolas A. Morgenstern, MD, PhDNeuroscience and scientific strategy
Jeffrey Rouse, MDPsychiatry and medical technology
Markus Besemann, MDPhysiatry, veterans health
Jan Venter, MDFunctional medicine
Claire Sira, PhDClinical neuropsychology
Ryan D’Arcy, PhDResearch and product development
David Vago, PhDResearch
Genevieve Major, PhDBehavioral intervention research
Ramona von Leden, PhDResearch and strategy
Sealy Hambright, PhDLongevity
Lee Sidebottom, PhDNeurotechnology
Leigh Richardson, PhD, MBA
Shaun Porter, MScNeuroscience and health strategy
Natasha Wilch, PTPhysical therapy and concussion
Neil Pearson, PT, MScPhysical therapy
Abeed Hirji, OTOccupational therapy, vestibular rehabilitation
Lauren Karatanevski, DCChiropractic and sports science
Mary Lee, CD, MPR
Sheila ThelenVestibular performance training
Gary McCoyApplied sports science
Fair questions
Something we haven’t covered? Email hello@brainnovationnetwork.com and someone on our team will answer.
What does founding membership cost?
Nothing for the founding 200, and it stays that way. Paid upgrades for practice and business building open in 2027 and are optional. Once founding closes, new members start at $27 USD a month.
How much work is this for me or my staff?
About 20 minutes to complete your listing, done within 30 days of joining. After that, the community, events and spotlights are there whenever you want them.
How is this different from other directories?
Most directories file you by profession in a long alphabetical list. This one is organized around the problems people search for, and it comes with a community of peers you can learn from and refer to. You can keep any other listings you have.
Does joining affect how I practice?
No. You keep full clinical autonomy, we never influence treatment, prescribing or referrals, and nothing about membership is tied to clinical decisions.
Do I need to be a brain health expert to join?
No. Interest and a willingness to build are enough to start, and you describe your own background on your listing.
What happens after I join?
You finish your listing and we welcome you into the community. Your listing goes live in the public directory, searchable by the problems you work on.
Be 1 of the 200
Your listing takes about 20 minutes, and for the founding 200 it stays free. Founding closes at member 200 or on 31 December 2026.
Claim a founding place