Gifted Counseling ServicesSoon I celebrate 25 years as a licensed and national board certified counselor providing counseling services to gifted, profoundly gifted, and twice exceptional (2e) children, teens, adults, couples, and families. In addition to my grounded professional training, the foundation of my practice is my lifetime of experience within my own gifted family, gifted friendships, gifted learning environments, and creative gifted workplaces.

 

Families who seek counseling services for gifted and twice exceptional children do so for a variety of reasons. Often, gifted and twice exceptional children, who naturally love learning, find displeasure with school and have trouble both engaging and finding meaning in their school experience. Gifted and twice exceptional children, like gifted and twice exceptional adults tend to struggle with their intense, sensitive, and perfectionistic gifted natures. Gifted counseling provides time and space for gifted and twice exceptional children and adults to sort through these gifted characteristics, strengthen their authentic sense of self, and find a sense of calm. Gifted and twice exceptional families also frequently seek gifted counseling services to foster a more harmonious gifted family environment.

 

My clinical training and approach is a supportive match for children, teens, couples, and adults who are twice exceptional (2e) or multi-exceptional because we work together to look beyond “disability” to identify and integrate the strengths and benefits that always accompany twice-exceptionality and neurodiversity, thus fostering healthy intrinsic esteem and mental wellness.

 

When I begin my counseling work with gifted and twice exceptional people, we look closely at the lives they are living and discuss the lives they wish to create for themselves. We examine life circumstances and challenges and work together to address the realities and impacts of gifted characteristics like gifted intensity, gifted perfectionism, gifted sensitivity, gifted asynchrony, gifted personality development, and gifted existential dilemma. For gifted and twice exceptional children, this process happens though play, art, experiential methods, and talk, depending on the child’s nature and interests. For gifted and twice exceptional teen and adult clients, this process happens through talk, experiential means, and art, depending on their natures and interests. For gifted and twice exceptional family counseling, this process happens through experiential methods and talk.

 

With honors, I completed a top-tier, CACREP-accredited Counseling Psychology and Counselor Education graduate program. I also maintain longstanding supervisory and mentor relationships and have trained intensively with a renowned psychological theorist. I bring gifted self-awareness and gifted authenticity to my work. And yet, and because of this grounded gifted gravitas, my work with gifted and twice exceptional clients of all ages is free to be light, strengths-based, and progressive.

 

Under the right circumstances, and with an experienced and skilled gifted counseling practitioner, gifted and twice exceptional children, teens, adults, and families can all deeply benefit from gifted counseling services. Finding the right therapeutic match at the right time is as crucial as finding the right educational or workplace environment.

 

Please contact me if you would like to schedule a phone consultation to learn more about my gifted and twice exceptional counseling services.