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.
Lots of info of upcoming groups, learning opportunities, and whatnot.
I tell some of my story, describe some of the gifted experience, and discuss ways to help gifted clients through counseling, coaching, and Improv.
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.
Gifted and giftedness definitions continue to evolve as our understanding does. This blog post gives a glimpse of my briefest working definiton.
Gifted adolescents and adults in South Carolina have a new choice for counseling. I’m now licensed there and can help.
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.
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)…
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…
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…
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…
Our Wild Minds is offering up this important opportunity for BIPOC Gifted adults. “Our Wild Minds offers live, online courses that help highly creative, gifted, and…
You walk through life with intensities – intellectual, sensual, physical, creative, emotional, existential. You experience hyperfocus and can feel hyperscattered. You feel different from the…
Your teen walks through life with intensities – intellectual, sensual, physical, creative, emotional, existential. Some experience hyperfocus and can feel hyperscattered. They feel different from…
There are so many new opportunities for connection popping up right now that I wanted to reach out and share them with you. Gifted? Adult?…
Your teen walks through life with intensities – intellectual, sensual, physical, creative, emotional, existential. Some experience hyperfocus and can feel hyperscattered. They feel different from…
On October 2nd, Improv for Gifted Adults begins another run! There are still a few spots left for Level 1 and for Advanced. Get ’em…
“I came into these sessions chewing on a question about gifted aloneness that felt a bit practical—how can gifted people make friends (especially gifted people…
People Who Get Me is a group coaching experience for gifted adults that begins on July 18 and runs weekly from 6:15-7:45pm for six weeks….
New Improv for Gifted Adults (I4GA) group launches on March 27, 2022! Click this link to register. For Gifted Adults, Improv provides a deep, moving,…
New Improv for Gifted Adults group launches on May 19! Come unmasked. Discover yourself in community and in play. Transform perfectionism through spontaneity. Transcend social…
What have you lost to COVID-19? This week, I have spent hours and hours helping people process their grief. Some have lost family members. Some,…
How’s your mental health? Well that’s a tricky question. The term itself is one that begs for a road map, and we all have to…
You’ve known you’re different for a long time. You’ve been told you’re too intense or too sensitive over and over. When things don’t go well,…
Perfectionism is a combination of experience, knowledge, analysis, and imagination. Coupled with fear and avoidance, it’s a vicious taskmaster, daring you to try and promising…