Gifted Adult Psychotherapy Can Help You Solve Your Problems, Develop Your Potential & ThriveWhen gifted clients come to therapy, they are usually unaware of how their advanced development affects the presenting problem. A therapist who can recognize the characteristics that often accompany giftedness can explain these traits and their effects to the client and this explanation, in itself, can have a profound impact on the outcome of treatment.
Paula Prober
Having a high performance mind, heart, and spirit is not as carefree as most people think
Lower your frustration level with counseling and psychotherapy specifically designed for the needs of gifted, talented and creative adults. Gifted and creative adults need therapists, coaches, counselors and mentors who understand what giftedness is, what gifted people need, the challenges they face and the solutions that work to help them realize their potential and live fulfilling lives. Working with 'multi-gifted' and creative adults requires specialized knowledge, training and skills. As a therapist who's worked exclusively with gifted, creative and multi-talented adults for more than a decade, I'm familiar with the challenges these adults face daily and the kind of support, guidance and challenges that multi-capable, multi-interested adults need to live meaningful and productive lives. There's no need for a gifted and creative adult to suffer from worry, stress, depression or anxiety--whether it stems from current situations or from past experiences, relationships or family interactions. Gifted and creative adults who want to develop their potential, seek therapy with a trained professional who helps them heal their wounds and provides the guidance, support and expert advice that helps them through their crisis and recovery. How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious of the immensity of yourself? Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Going it alone and toughing things out is an honorable strategy, however, in many situations using this strategy can make a difficult situation even worse for gifted, creative and talented adults. There is no need for you to wear yourself out. Good help is available. Life's hurts, traumas, disillusionments, disappointments and changes can be especially stressful, depleting, anxiety provoking and depression activating for Gifted, Talented and Creative Adults. Get yourself some good counseling and psychotherapy before things get more complicated. An experienced therapist who works with gifted adults, knows how to engage, relate to and collaborate with the multi-talented gifted and creative adults who seek psychotherapy and counseling. Read Psychotherapy with Gifted Adults for more information. While many highly gifted, talented and creative people find it challenging to find a therapist who has a similar level of intelligence and talents and is knowledgeable about how high intelligence and multiple abilities can complicate an individual's personal, professional, creative and community existence, good therapists who are gifted, talented and creative themselves can be found. It takes work for everyone to find the right therapist. These therapists exist. Keep looking. Individual counseling that provides guidance, support and learning tailored to the multi-talented, creative individual can be a useful tool for navigating life successfully.
Why Seek Help?The need and desire for inner transformation is an expression of what Dabrowski called the third factor – the drive behind autonomous, self-conscious, self-chosen and self-determined efforts at guiding one’s development. Elizabeth Mika
Counseling can be helpful for gifted, talented and creative people who want help - Improving relationships at home, work or with friends.
- Experiencing less stress, anger or anxiety
- Recovering from anxiety, depression, grief, addictions.
- Healing wounds from the past that interfere with current success and enjoyment
- Coping with children, adolescents, relocating, remarriage
- Coping with separation, divorce or custody and visitation conflicts
- Preventing or recovering from burnout
- Coping with a major crisis such as a death in the family, chronic or terminal illness
- Dealing with emotions and change when adult parents retire, relocate, divorce or remarry
- Adjusting to caring for aging parents and help deciding on arrangements for care
Therapy with a supportive and knowledgeable therapist who understands how high intelligence, creativity and multiple talents and interests affect and add complexity to a person's life circumstances and experience can be very helpful. If you're seeking therapy for yourself, think about the qualities and knowledge that are important for you to have in the therapist you see. Make sure that the counselor you decide to work with has enough of these attributes and qualifications. Take time when speaking on the phone to the therapist to determine the fit of your personality and your goals in seeking therapy as well as the therapist's location and office hours. Restore your balance. Increase your personal happiness. Recover your strength and resilience. Get yourself some help. Lynne Azpeitia understands the stress and strains that gifted adults face in their daily lives. Contact Lynne today at (310) 828-7121 or by e-mail for a complimentary counseling consultation to discuss how psychotherapy can help you with the challenges, problems or difficulties you are facing. Get your questions answered. Talk with Lynne about how counseling and psychotherapy can help you meet your challenges, solve your problems, develop your potential and thrive. Don't delay. Lynne Azpeitia, M.A., Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist AAMFT Approved Supervisor
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Articles Gifted individuals face many challenges. One of them may be in getting correctly identified by psychotherapists and others as gifted. It's well known among researchers of the gifted, talented and creative that these individuals exhibit greater intensity and increased levels of emotional, imaginational, intellectual, sensual and psychomotor excitability and that this is a normal pattern of development...... More Theory of Positive Disintegration as a Model of Personality Development For Exceptional Individuals Elizabeth Mika For some time now, experts in the field of giftedness have been searching for and creating theoretical models of development, which could be applied to the gifted population. Unfortunately, such models often suffer from artificially imposed exclusivity. As Ellen Winner writes, “Psychology should have theories that account for the development of the atypical as well as the typical. We should not have entirely separate theories to explain learning and development in ordinary, retarded, autistic, learning-disabled and gifted children. Too often we have researchers devoted to one of these populations, with the result that we have separate explanatory accounts of each population. Ultimately, psychological theory must account for all of the various ways in which the mind and brain develop. We need universal theories of development, but these theories must be able to incorporate special populations, whether these are special because of pathology, giftedness, or both.” (Winner, 1996, p. 313) Kazimierz Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD) shows a great promise as such a universal theory of development proposed above (Dabrowski, 1970). TPD is the first theory in psychology that postulates levels of personality development and methods of measuring them; it also describes and explains mechanisms of emotional development. The theory, formulated almost a half a century ago, focuses on positive aspects of mental health and the essential role of positive values in guiding human development, and as such it can be considered a precursor of positive psychology. More.... An Interview with Therapist Lynne Azpeitia
Douglas Eby Actors, performers and other people in the arts usually don't seek therapy "until they're pretty desperate," psychotherapist Lynne Azpeitia admits. "They don't go to a professional until they have to go -- until they think something's really wrong with them, their relationship, their family, or somebody or something at work." She finds that many of the people who see her "have had previous therapeutic experiences which were pretty limited due to the fact that ..... More Harriet Lerner Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. Our anger may be a message that we are being hurt, that our rights are being violated, that our needs or wants are not being adequately met, or simply that something is not right. Our anger may tell us that we are not addressing an important emotional issue in our lives, or that too much of our self - our beliefs, values, desires, or ambitions - is being compromised in a relationship. Our anger may be a signal that we are doing more and giving more than we can comfortably do or give. Or..... More Interview with Daniel Siegel, MD
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Your work in the field of psychiatry really offers one of the best integrative frameworks for understanding the connections between human relationships and neurophysiological functioning. Your work on this topic is beautifully presented in your recently published book called "The Developing Mind - Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience". In your book, you discuss how interpersonal relationships affect the structure and functioning of the brain, which helps shape a person's emotional, social, and mental functioning.....More
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