To man, time is given like a piece of land, as it were, entrusted to him for faithful tilling; a space in which to strive incessantly, achieve self-realization, move onward and upward. Thomas Mann
Within each of us lie unique and special strengths, opportunities and abilities waiting to be discovered and utilized. If you want to increase your personal satisfaction, develop your potential, live a more authentic life and have better relationships, explore what coaching and psychotherapy can do for you as a gifted adult.
Coaching and psychotherapy can help Gifted and Creative Adults live better, feel more powerful and be more effective at home and at work.
Because Gifted, Talented and Creative Adults experience a variety of ongoing personal, relationship and career challenges, problems and difficulties--including depression and anxiety--when their daily life doesn’t include enough opportunities to use their multiple gifts, talents and abilities, Gifted Adult coaching and psychotherapy can help. The experience of being supported, understood and helped by a therapist (or coach) facilitates a gifted person’s acceptance of self and his or her talents and abilities, which, in turn, frees the gifted adult to focus on utilizing his or her talents and abilities in new and different ways. This leads to more happiness, success and satisfaction.
If you're a gifted adult who is struggling in your marriage, relationship, with family members or at work, are making a transition, recovering from an addiction or are experiencing anxiety, depression or grief, psychotherapy with a gifted and creative adult therapist may be a very useful solution for you. Coaching and psychotherapy are both tools gifted adults can use to live a more centered, soulful, satisfied life.
If you want to learn about adult giftedness and it’s effects, find solutions to challenges you face as a gifted adult, put your gifts and talents to work to pay your bills, increase your business, develop more confidence, maximize your creativity or deal with procrastination, try gifted adult coaching--in person or by phone. Reduce your stress and suffering, develop your potential, complete your projects and increase your skills, self-awareness, and effectiveness at home, at work and in relationships with either gifted adult coaching or psychotherapy. Despite the enormous diversity within the gifted population, the goal of professional work should always be the same: for the gifted adults to re-encounter, explore and value the gifted self and allow it to grow in its own unique way. It is the professional's job to provide whatever each gifted individual needs in order for this to happen.
Lesley Sword
To work effectively with gifted adults, a coach or psychotherapist must understand gifted adults and have the specialized knowledge, training and skills to work effectively. If a therapist is not a multi-talented, gifted and creative adult and does not have accurate information about gifted adults--their psychology, development and struggles--gifted, talented and creative adults will find themselves misunderstood, mislabeled and misdiagnosed
For more than ten years I’ve helped hundreds of gifted, talented and creative adults understand themselves, their needs, their gifts—and to live life more fully on their own terms.
It’s my belief that successful coaching and psychotherapy for gifted adults includes these two key elements:
- the identification of the Gifted Adult’s own differences in perceiving, experiencing and moving through the world
- how to optimize a suitable personal, social and work environment that nurtures the person as well as his or her own unique talents and abilities.
By exploring coaching or psychotherapy that is tailored to gifted adults you can find personalized solutions for living, loving, working and creating that suit you, your significant other, family members, kinship network, business, team or group.
Both coaching and psychotherapy can help you develop yourself and create a learning and support system that is dedicated to your success, confidence, well being and happiness.
It's up to you to decide which one is the best fit for you, your goals and your current circumstances. I hope this information has been helpful to you. If you would like to explore the possibility that Gifted Adult Coaching or Psychotherapy may be of benefit to you, please e-mail or call Lynne Azpeitia at (310) 828-7121 to schedule a free 30-minute phone discussion. To get a sense of the Lynne Azpeitia's Gifted & Creative Adult Coaching, take a look at her article Successful Coaching and Psychotherapy with Multi-Talented Gifted and Creative Adults Lynne Azpeitia, M.A., Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
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