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
How Do You Know You’re Gifted?
Every Gifted Person Has A Unique Personality Profile That Includes Some Combination of These Gifted Traits.
The hallmarks of giftedness:
An intense drive to acquire, master and process new information
A capacity to absorb and understand material as it’s being presented-no review or homework required to bolt it in place
A wide - ranging imagination
Leaps of spontaneous insight
Clairvoyance – an ability to see beyond the ordinary
A capacity to be awed ,inspired and super-motivated
An advanced intellect that permits razor sharp critical thinking
Uncanny physical abilities
A finely tuned unusual aesthetic sensibility
A range of physical and emotional sensitivities and reactivities.
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.
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.