Thanks to a progressive Connecticut Department of Public Health, if you live in Connecticut, I can work with you as a counselor. I received my licensure this month (license number 9397), and I am happy to be able to extend my services to The Nutmeg State. From Mystic to Canaan, Putnam to Stamford, and everywhere in between. I will continue to see folks in North and South Carolina as well. Please share the word with your networks!

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This eight-week series beginning January 19, 2025 elevates and centers the creative and imaginational dimensions of your gifted consciousness. Forget every rhyme scheme and iambic pentameter thumping your English teacher forced upon you. None of that is central to poetry’s curative properties now known and practiced in psychology  and clinical medical practice. Poetic Reasoning invites you to develop skills of surrender and to open doors of self-discovery.

Participants will engage and practice Poetic Reasoning in a safe, supportive, and critique-free community. We will practice and open to the use of poetry as a tool of exploration. You will transcend your resistances and perfectionistic habits. Wider perspective, intuition, creativity, and freedom from the neuromajority’s constraints on thinking comprise just a few of the benefits. Meaning, awe, wonder, and delight are others. 

It’s Me!!??

It’s Me!!??

ByGordon Smith

(This piece originally appeared as an article for the Minnesota Council for the Gifted and Talented. It is written for all of the parents who realized their own giftedness after their children were identified as gifted)

It’s Me: The Moment

My son was identified as gifted by his school. He was having sensory issues, and they couldn’t teach him anything. He kept acing every test without trying. He was disrupting the class, too, but anyway, we had him evaluated, and it turns out he’s got a GAI score of 146. So my husband and I started reading whatever we could find about giftedness. I was reading about Bore-Out one night when it hit me. My eyes didn’t blink for a full minute… “It’s me. That’s me.”

You were digging around to learn how to help your gifted child become as happy and as healthy as they could be. You read the books and listened to the podcasts. You attended the trainings and joined the organizations. You were on a mission to optimize all that intensity of theirs into a fulfilling life. You just want your children to live in their fullest expression.

People Who Get Me: A Gifted, Neurodivergent, Group Coaching Experience

People Who Get Me: A Gifted, Neurodivergent, Group Coaching Experience

ByGordon Smith

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.

Creative Approaches for Gifted and Otherwise Neurodivergent Adults

Creative Approaches for Gifted and Otherwise Neurodivergent Adults

ByGordon Smith

I’ve learned that there are alternative, unconventional approaches that can move people from pathology paradigms to expansive, growth orientations. These creative approaches, long given side-eye by traditionalists, are now being proven. I intend to bring more of these expansive processes into the world of ‘mental health’. New offerings in 2025 reflect these evolutions. You’re invited.