Coaches of highly sensitive people

Jenna Avery "is a highly sensitive coach and intuitive who offers an original coaching program called Embrace Your Essential Self, designed to guide sensitive souls to find a deep sense of inner rightness within themselves so they are inspired to step forward and shine."      site: site  /  articles

Jenna Forrest - "Specializing in coaching for: empaths, highly sensitive people, sensitive kids, healing, overcoming a period of hardship, root causes, core beliefs, intuition, consciousness, rebuilding, mindset, empowerment, validation, personal capacity, human potential, transcendence, mind body spirit."  website   articles

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Lynne Azpeitia, MA

"People are capable of being expressive, but often they are interfered with or misinterpreted in these areas. So my job is to help them identify when they are in that fluid and creative state, and help them look at how they got there, and on purpose how to make those things happen. That's the best part of what I do." She is a licensed therapist in Santa Monica, California, and may be reached at 310.828.7121 or 626.797.1052

  Interview: Supporting creative achievement - an interview with therapist Lynne Azpeitia

  Related article:**Misdiagnosis of the Gifted by Lynne Azpeitia, M.A. and Mary Rocamora, M.A.

Jennifer Berman, PhD****website

".. draws 60% of her clientele from the entertainment industry. Quite often, she tells many of them, in order to
keep your footing, it is important to maintain "a sense of honesty about yourself and a sense of who you are."
Playing the game is important, she stresses, but there is a way to walk the line.

from article: Hollywood Balancing Act

Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D.****website***articles****office phone: (323) 651-1118

"..is a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist in Los Angeles, CA. ... sees many talented individuals,
including members of the Screen Actors Guild."  A former pupil and protege of Dr. Rollo May, he has taught at the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, J.F.K. University, the C.G. Jung Institute--Zurich and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He was a contributing author to the best-selling anthology Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature, and is the author of book Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity."

 *See quotes by Dr. Diamond on related page:**the shadow self

Andrew Mahoney - Counselor and family therapist - "It really all comes back to their identity as gifted people," he says. "It comes back to their being able to see themselves as gifted within the systems that tell them who they are -- their family, their schools, their community. Their giftedness is a variable in their identity, and for a counselor to ignore that is to ignore a key part in the puzzle they're trying to piece together." [website]

Vicky Frankfourth Moyle, M.A., N.C.C.

"I am available for psychotherapy, advocacy, counseling, coaching, private tutoring and educational concerns to support the needs of gifted individuals.  I was a classroom teacher for 14 years, in Mathematics and Gifted Education.  I have a teaching certificate from Missouri with an endorsement in gifted education (which represents 30+ graduate hours in Gifted Education).  I have an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Colorado at Denver.

"I am a National Board Certified Counselor (NCC) and am particularly interested in issues of depression, creativity, positive maladjustment, and psychopathology in the gifted -- and especially in differential therapeutic relationships for the gifted. I use Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration to guide my conceptualization of any client."

Vicky Frankfourth Moyle, M.A., N.C.C., Grand Junction, CO   (970) 254-0269   vmoyle@hotmail.com

Kathleen Noble, Ph.D.   Seattle, WA ......  [interview]

"I am a licensed psychologist in WA state with a small independent practice specializing in the psychological growth
of gifted women and men. I am also a Research Associate Professor of Women Studies at the University of Washington
and the Assistant Director of the Early Entrance Program at UW, a program through which highly capable young students can skip high school and enter the UW at the ages of 13-15.

In addition to extensive clinical experience with the psychosocial issues affecting gifted adults and adolescents, I've written two books and numerous articles about these issues. My books are "The Sound of a Silver Horn: Reclaiming the Heroism in Contemporary Women's Lives", and "Remarkable Women: Perspectives in Female Talent Development". This latter is a collection of 25 studies about giftedness across a wide variety of geographic, ethnic, socioeconomic, and talent domains which I editted with two colleagues, Rena Subotnik and Karen Arnold.

I have a special interest in resilience, and particularly in the way in which powerful spiritual experiences can promote psychological well-being."

Kathleen Noble, Ph.D., 206-322-4256  University of Washington, Box 351630, Seattle, WA 98195.

Dennis Palumbo, M.A., MFT*****website

"formerly a Hollywood screenwriter... now a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles. Palumbo specializes in helping new and established screenwriters, directors, and novelists address creative issues, as well as those involving mid-life and career transition." [from website]

author of book: Writing from the Inside Out  // quotes on page: counseling

Pat Powell, M.A.  Irvine, CA

"My background working with gifted people began with my joining Mensa many years ago as well as attracting bright clients who yearned for a counselor equally bright... the gifted ones know I'm at their level and they'd better get down to business and stop trying to 'win.'...  I believe brightness comes in all degrees and types, and blindspots aren't limited to the non-gifted."

Pat Powell, M.A.    (714) 573-1333

Paula Prober, M.S., M.Ed. / Transpersonal Counseling and Consulting   Eugene, Oregon

"... specializes in counseling gifted and talented individuals. Paula works from a base of Jungian and object relations theory."

from her site:  psychevolution.com

Mary Rocamora, M.A.

Founder and director of The Rocamora School     Los Angeles, CA   323-876-3358

Misdiagnosis of the Gifted by Lynne Azpeitia, M.A. and Mary Rocamora, M.A.

Counseling Issues with Recognized and Unrecognized Gifted Adults by Mary Rocamora

Annette Revel Sheely***associated with the*Gifted Development Center

"I got my B.A. (emphasis: psychology) from Antioch University. I have an M.A. from Pepperdine University in Clinical Psychology, with an emphasis in counseling. My internships include counseling experience with: abused children at an L.A. County Courthouse, HIV infected patients, their families, and the worried well, at AIDS Project Los Angeles, senior citizens at the Senior Health and Peer Counseling Center in Santa Monica , at-risk teenagers at a high school in Santa Monica, and domestic abuse survivors for Sojourn in Santa Monica.

Towards the end of my M.A. program, I began to do research in the field of counseling the gifted. It has become my passion and I am now counseling gifted children and adults. I moved to Denver to work under the supervision of Dr. Linda Silverman at the Gifted Development Center. I also see clients in Boulder. I do assessments for children, adolescents and adults, using the Wechsler tests (WISC-III and WPPSI-R) and Stanford-Binet IQ tests- including the Form L-M, which is useful in identifying highly gifted individuals.

My areas of interest are: the emotional and psychological needs of gifted children, adolescents, and adults; the special issues of gifted girls; the highly gifted; and assessment of the gifted. My current research includes a study of scores of the WISC-III and the Stanford-Binet, Form L-M, to identify the highly gifted."

Annette Revel Sheely   - School counselor at Rocky Mountain School for the Gifted and Creative

       [Also see interview]

Dr. Nita Vallens*[offices in Sherman Oaks, California]***website

Change beliefs, ideas, and habits that are no longer working... Carl Jung said, "That which we do not confront in ourselves, we will meet as fate." "So oftentimes it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key"
    The Eagles, from their song Already Gone

Change means transformation in all areas of your life -- psychological, emotional, physical, mental, spiritual,
energetic, in short, your mind, body and soul -- I help you accomplish this by identifying specific issues and
problems and finding appropriate solutions. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you."

Shulamit Widawsky - Educational Therapist working with the gifted in Northern Virginia. "My clients come to me because they feel frustrated or uncomfortable in some aspects of their lives, and they need to work things out with someone who understands the special emotional needs of the gifted."  [website]

Related website: Psychologists familiar with Testing the Gifted and Exceptionally Gifted

Related pages on Talent Development Resources:

counseling / therapy: page 1****counseling / therapy : page 2***Counseling resources articles sites books*

coaching*****nurturing mental health

books: mental health******books: nurturing mental health