Jennifer Harvey Sallin

Founding Director

As a psychologist, trainer, assessor, writer and advocate, Jennifer is dedicated to raising awareness about adult giftedness and twice-/multi-exceptionality (2e/me) and meaningfully supporting gifted/2e/me people in their personal and social development. She has specialized in supporting gifted adults for more than a decade, and in 2015, she created InterGifted to allow gifted people to socially engage in meaningful ways and to personally develop in community. She is based in Switzerland and supports gifted people throughout the world. Learn more about why Jennifer started InterGifted here.

Jennifer has developed a model of giftedness that is particularly useful for gifted adults in their giftedness (re)discovery, healing, integration and personal and professional development. This model is holistic, starting with intellectual giftedness as a base, and factoring in other areas of intelligence as well as other concurrent neurodivergences and intersectionalities to create a full picture of each person's giftedness profile. She uses this model in providing qualitative assessments to gifted adults, as well as in training professional therapists, coaches and other helping professionals to better support their gifted clients.

After starting the Conversations on Gifted Trauma podcast, Jennifer has been diving deeply into the field of trauma healing, and has trained (and continues training) with important teachers in the field, including Gabor Maté (Compassionate Inquiry), Richard Schwartz and Robert Falconer (Internal Family Systems), Thomas Hübl (Collective Trauma Healing), Peter Levine and Barbara Collier (Somatic Experiencing).

She wants to help gifted and 2e/me people understand how their unique minds work, so that they can have joyful, authentic and self-compassionate access to their own intellectual process, so that they can meaningfully connect to and be a generative presence for themselves, others and the world. Having worked her own way through this process as well, Jennifer shares her story in her writings and public talks, which you can find here, at her private practice site Rediscovering Yourself and in her various public talks listed here.

In addition to her work on giftedness, Jennifer is active in the world of contemplative meditation and bridges her work to ecopsychology, climate psychology through conscious climate engagement, ecological reconnection and activism. You can learn more & get involved with her at I Heart Earth.

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