Empowering Gifted Individuals
Our Commitment to Compassionate, Specialized Therapy
At Psychotherapy Services for the Gifted, our mission is to provide compassionate, specialized therapy that empowers gifted, talented, high ability, and high IQ individuals to embrace their giftedness and make the emotional and practical changes to achieve their full potential. We are dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the unique emotional, moral, and philosophical experiences of gifted individuals, offering personalized and collaborative support. By addressing the distinctive challenges and opportunities associated with giftedness, we aim to help our clients lead fulfilling, meaningful lives, nurturing their innate talents, passions, and develop satisfying relationships at every stage of development.
Meet Our Team
At Psychotherapy Services for the Gifted, our dedicated team brings decades of specialized experience to support the unique needs of gifted, talented, high ability, and high IQ individuals.
JERALD GROBMAN, M.D.
MADELON SANN, LCSW
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Early ability to read (often self taught, ) and to form complete sentences with a rapidly advancing vocabulary.
At an early age the beginnings of quick ,logical ,sequential thinking that includes critical examination and self -observation.
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A passionate drive for acquiring and processing new information - often without a clear sense of purpose or direction.
A capacity for intense uninterrupted focus and motivation to dig deep in areas they care about.
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.An intuitive “feel” for how the elements within different domains relate to one another : A early capacity to think in metaphors.
Intense sensitivity and reactivity in all aspects of life.
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Early concerns about fairness and injustice / concerns about being too self centered.
Frequent crises of self confidence after major successes, promotions, awards and recognition.
A tendency to deny, disavow the reality of their own giftedness in the face of overwhelming objective evidence to support it: the exceptional nature of their work products ; the process they used to create them and the opinions of mentors, teachers and other highly knowledgeable individuals .
A charismatic personality / early capacity for leadership
Impatience with themself and others.
Clairvoyance : the ability to see beyond the ordinary - the appreciation of the “magical” in the mundane.
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.
How Do You Know You’re Gifted?
Every Gifted Person Has A Unique Personality Profile That Includes Some Combination of These Gifted Traits.
Who are the Profoundly Gifted?
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.
As a preschooler, one of our patients could read material at a high school level and beyond. The capacity to read advanced material at a very young age is often the first sign of profound giftedness. At a very young age profoundly gifted individuals are capable of: sophisticated critical thinking, formulating abstract concepts, spontaneous deep intuitive insights.
They are also capable of using these abilities in fluid ways to establish very personal connections across multiple artistic, scientific, musical and athletic domains. This means they are capable of very original creative work much sooner than their gifted and exceptionally gifted counterparts.
Many profoundly individuals can be considered young polymaths. However, profoundly gifted individuals are more intense more sensitive and more reactive than their gifted and exceptionally gifted peers.
Parents, teachers and mentors may interpret a profoundly gifted individual’s intense drive to acquire ,master and process more and more information as wonderful examples of self directed curiosity and motivation.
However, for many profoundly gifted individuals, the intensity of this drive is a double edged sword:
Fascination and pleasure in the process of discovery and the power of exercising their intellect is mixed up with dread and fear that they have entered forbidden territory. They also worry that their internal drive seems to have a life of its own because they can’t control how to start or stop it. A Profoundly gifted individuals’ emotional intensity can lead to dramatic mood swings – from exhilaration to despair in a short period of time. This emotional cycling can be very troubling but should not be interpreted as a psychiatric disorder without getting a professional opinion. These are some of the qualities and issues that profoundly gifted individuals share.