Individual Counseling
for gifted children and gifted teens
Child Individual Counseling
Parenting a gifted child is a bit of a unique experience. All those parenting books that are supposed to help prepare you for certain developmental milestones just don’t seem to fit your child. In fact, those milestones seem to have come way earlier than you expected. It’s almost as if you have a small adult living in your house instead of the child everyone said you would have. And as the parent, you’re left struggling to meet your child’s needs while also dealing with the pressure that parenting a gifted child should be easier than it really is.
Together, you and I will work alongside your child to navigate the complex dynamics of which you both endure. I’ll help identify the various challenges they are going through and then help teach both of you how to advocate for your child’s needs, build their confidence, and manage their emotions so that you and your child can get back to a joy-filled life.
The most common concerns I help parents and children with are:
★ Withdrawn ★ Hyperactive ★ Perfectionism ★ Giftedness & 2E ★ Hyper-focus & Lack of Focus ★
★ Existential Crises ★ Academic Concerns ★
Teen Individual Counseling
The teen years are rough. Adults seem annoying, peers make no sense, school seems like such a chore, and everyone wants you to plan for your future when you’re already too busy dealing with what’s on your plate. You can’t worry about the future when you have to live in the present. And who even knows what the future looks like anyway?
But being a gifted teen is even more rough. You are constantly being told that you are too sensitive, too moral, too argumentative, too smart... too much everything. After all, you’re smarter than most of the adults who want you listen to them and your intelligence stops you from being able to make friends. All of this makes life way more overwhelming than it needs to be.
As your therapist, I won’t tell you what you should do, who you should be, or how you should be feeling. Instead, I’ll meet you where you’re at. This way, you can learn how to embrace your giftedness and build those necessary skills so that life makes sense and is way less overwhelming.
The most common concerns I help parents and children with are:
★ Anxiety ★ Existential Dread ★ Identity Development ★ Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) ★ Social Skills ★
★ Sex Ed ★ Depression ★ Self-Harm ★ Giftedness & 2E★