PYSCHOTHERAPY SERVICES FOR THE GIFTED
If you’re reading this you’re probably in a gifted crisis. We can help you understand how you got into it and we can help you get out of it.
Crisis Management
What we can do?
After more than 40 years of therapeutic work with gifted individuals of all ages, we can understand why you’ve gone into crisis and how to get you out of it.
We can help you make sense of your confused feelings, thoughts, and self – defeating behaviors.
We can make sure you’re not mis–diagnosed or overdiagnosed.
We can help you make practical and emotional plans for getting out of your crisis.
How do we do it?
Our intensive talk sessions can help you with the following:
Clarify the factors that caused your crisis: your giftedness, family dynamics, interpersonal relationships, and circumstances.
Help you decide which blend of interventions is appropriate for you: coaching, counseling, therapy, parent guidance, or medication (if necessary)
Decide which of these is the appropriate follow up for you.
Our process is a collaborative interactive one that is specific to your needs and personality. We can help you identify your particular type of giftedness; help you believe in it and find ways to use and enjoy it. Help you unblock your giftedness regardless of cause and circumstance, help you maximize your gifted potential, and use it creatively, ambitiously, and competitively.
If you choose to try to fulfill your potential, we can help you work through the sacrifices necessary to achieve this and make sure the process doesn’t interfere with your interpersonal relationships.
If you feel you are depressed, we can help you determine if this is an Existential Depression, find the cause, and establish a treatment plan.
We understand the logical and the intuitive parts of the gifted mind.
We understand the issues that prevent them from working in sync so that you can get back to getting things done faster and with more depth than people who are neurotypical.
But in the “real world” not everybody values that method of accomplishing things... they may not be able to understand your gifted process and they may not want it done that way. We can show you how to succeed in the “real world” without compromising your integrity, your authenticity, or losing your motivation.
How Do You Know You’re Gifted?
Every Gifted Person Has A Unique Personality Profile That Includes Some Combination of These Gifted Traits.
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The Cognitive
Early ability to read (often self-taught) and to form complete sentences with advancing vocabulary.
Beginnings of quick, logical, sequential thinking that includes critical examination and self-observation.
The Extra – Cognitive
A passionate drive for acquiring and processing new information.
A capacity for intense, uninterrupted focus and motivation to dig deep in areas they care about.
Intense sensitivity and reactivity in all aspects of life.
A charismatic personality.
Impatience with themself and others.
Feeling drained by ordinary conversations and interactions.
An imagination and a curiosity that seem limitless.
An intense desire to discover, invent, and create independently.
The capacity to solve complex problems automatically and intuitively.
Clairvoyance: the ability to see beyond the ordinary—the appreciation of the “magical” in the mundane.
An intuitive “feel” for how the elements within different domains relate to one another.
A capacity to be inspired, even “awed,” by things, ideas, experiences, and relationships.
Accomplishments and achievements that seem to happen effortlessly.
Uncanny physical abilities.
An advanced aesthetic sensibility: the appreciation for the beauty of how processes harmonize with each other.
The ability to connect “spiritually” with the world.
Special ability to “relate” to and “connect” with the inanimate parts of the world.
Excellent, almost photographic memory.
An affinity for the complex.
A sophisticated, quirky sense of humor that adults love but peers find confusing and weird.
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These are the building blocks for spectacular accomplishments. They also allow gifted individuals to experience the world in rich complex and even spiritual ways.
However these same endowed qualities also can transform giftedness into a double – edged sword :
When gifted children accomplish things well in advance of the normal expectations for their age ,they often feel as if they’ve left their childhood prematurely, entered adulthood too early and left their peers behind.
These experiences can lead to feelings of alienation, detachment, dissociation, disillusionment, isolation and feelings of meaninglessness.
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Profoundly Gifted individuals know things and can do things earlier and faster than their gifted and exceptionally gifted counterparts.
Profoundly gifted individuals have often taught themselves how to read at a very young age and quickly can do so at advanced levels. They frequently can develop an extensive and sophisticated vocabulary.
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Underachievement, Learning Disabilities, Perfectionism and Procrastination, Behavioral Problems, Low Motivation, and more.
All sessions are on Zoom, join from any location.
Therapy & Guidance for Gifted & Talented Individuals
Our process is a collaborative and interactive one that is specific to your needs and personality. We can help you identify your particular type of giftedness, accept it, believe in it and find ways to use and enjoy it. Often the key to succeeding in this - regardless of circumstances, issues and conflicts - is an in-depth exploration of your emotional, moral/ethical, and philosophical experience of being gifted.
Our team has proudly worked with patients in England, Ireland, Denmark, Spain, France, and Germany.
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From temper tantrums to school refusal, gifted children are a worry for parents and educators. Fiercely independent, reading at 3, rejecting hugs and kisses. Gifted kids can be a real handful.
Learn how to savor the joys and manage the problems.
Separate these disturbing symptoms and behaviors from normal growth and development and address the deeper layers of a gifted child’s feelings about his/ her giftedness.
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As they get older, many gifted adults gradually abandon the pursuit of their full potential. Establishing a solid successful conventional career and lifestyle seems easier and safer. However, when boredom and unhappiness emerge, they wonder how and why the passion and excitement of their youth disappeared.
Learn here how to reclaim the central part of your personality – your giftedness.
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Gifted individuals of all ages can experience feelings of alienation, disillusionment, detachment, isolation, and meaninglessness. These symptoms of existential distress can develop into an Existential Depression.
Learn here how and why this happens and how to recognize and treat Existential Depression.
“Their most troublesome conflicts and anxieties arose not from fears of ostracism, fears of failure, or lost opportunities, but from fear that giftedness had distorted and twisted them as human beings.”
jerald grobman
Get To Know Us
We have more than 40 years of therapeutic experience working with gifted individuals of all ages, at all levels of giftedness (gifted, exceptionally gifted, and profoundly gifted), in all types of circumstances, with all types of problems.
HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU’RE GIFTED?