Bringing Gifted to the Mastering Counseling Podcast
I tell some of my story, describe some of the gifted experience, and discuss ways to help gifted clients through counseling, coaching, and Improv.
People Who Get Me: A Gifted, Neurodivergent, Group Coaching Experience
Once you’ve realized that your giftedness has everything to do with the way you interact with the world, the next, inevitable steps are toward recalibrating, reorienting, and living a life more aligned with who you are. This group provides gifted adults a space to explore their neurodivergences in a virtual room full of other outliers. In my years working with gifted people, I’ve seen that loneliness is the most common affliction of the uncommon, and People Who Get Me (PWGM) is designed to be a balm and a laboratory.
What is your definition of gifted?
Gifted and giftedness definitions continue to evolve as our understanding does. This blog post gives a glimpse of my briefest working definiton.
Now Licensed in South Carolina, Too.
Gifted adolescents and adults in South Carolina have a new choice for counseling. I’m now licensed there and can help.
PERFECTIONISM IS AWESOME (and terrible)
Perfectionism is a function of the gifted mind that can foster defeat or success. It all depends on how you use it. Adaptively or maladaptively.
More People To Get More Access to Mental Health Services. You, too Gifted!
Since 2020, twenty-eight state legislatures have enacted legislation to become a part of the Counseling Compact, which will allow Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselors (LCMHC)…
Lights Up! Improv is Back.
Gifted folks are infamous for our conscientiousness and drive. This can look like hard work that tips into overwork, a search for excellence that tips…
Laugh Your Way Through It
When was the last time you actually had fun at a workshop? Not that “organized fun” kind of fun, but the kind that really resonated…
Improvisational Living for the Gifted: Why Fool Around With Improv?
Fourteen years old, gifted, autistic, gender non-binary – I remember the moment that they allowed spontaneity to happen. they went from nervous and tense to…
