How Do We Help You
Consultation
The Initial Consultation
We help you identify your gifted issues and place them in the context of your past and current life circumstances. This helps avoid the common problem all gifted individuals face: Misdiagnosis; attributing the traits of a gifted personality (mood swings, intensity, obsessiveness) under pressure to a psychiatric syndrome such as bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or borderline personality disorder. We can help you determine if an existential depression is the problem, if a co-existing disorder is present, and we can help you formulate a treatment plan for both.
Consultation With Other Professionals
Open Communication Always Takes Place with Other Involved Professionals
Educating other professionals about the psychological aspects of giftedness.
Using each individual’s formulation to explain difficult or strange behavior.
Building alliances with other professionals so that effective collaboration actually occurs.
Acting as a liaison between parents and other professionals so that parents can be effective advocates and misunderstandings can be prevented.
Helping translate psychological needs of gifted children into sensible recommendations for curriculum changes.
Choosing an assessment process can be confusing.
We can help you decide what kind of assessment you need.