Bringing our Giftedness into Therapy: Struggles and Growth for Gifted Therapists & Gifted Clients

Bringing our giftedness to therapy isn’t always easy, both for gifted therapists and gifted clients alike. The shame or fear we feel around our gifted complexity and/or gifted wounds, and the lack of support we’ve had for integrating our giftedness into our lives, show up in ways that dampen our ability to give and receive good gifted-specific therapy. Jennifer Harvey Sallin has written this article to open a collective discussion on the need for us to be able to bring our giftedness into the therapy process, so that our whole gifted self can heal and provide healing to others.… Read More

Introduction to Giftedness Profiling, with Jennifer Harvey Sallin — starting November 28, 2022

This training course with our founding director Jennifer Harvey Sallin is for therapists & coaches wanting to learn how to help gifted clients better understand their experience and expression of their giftedness profile. An essential part of supporting gifted clients in their healing, self-discovery, integration and growth process is providing them accurate mirroring and information for the particularities of how their minds work and how those particularities affect their lives and relationships.… Read More

On Philosophical Coaching for Gifted People

Therapy can be very helpful for a gifted person who needs support to get back into a state of equilibrium during a difficult time or heal from past wounding. But there are other forms of support for gifted people who want to fully flourish and reach their potential in meaningful and joyful ways. In this article, Miriam van der Valk shares more about the differences between therapy, coaching and mentoring, and gives us insight into the ways her own particular brand of coaching – philosophical coaching – supports gifted people in their own emergent flourishing.… Read More