Gifted/Neurodivergent
Coaching
Resources
Resources
Coaching for parents of gifted children, teens, and young adults, and gifted adults.
I bring expertise, education and experience of the gifted brain to my coaching with this population. Often, as a parent you feel at a loss in understanding and helping your child. As an adult you may have felt like you never quite fit in, know you're meant for more, but unable to achieve it, or struggled with mental health (depression, anxiety, OCD) for a majority of your life.
I am here to help. It is freeing to understand your brain, feelings, and the intensities you've lived with your whole life.
You will understand your brain, its wiring, so you can grow awareness, tools for mitigating frustrations, and an appreciation for the incredible mind you have!
Resources
Resources
Resources
Books
- Living with Intensity by Daniels & Piechowski
Greater Intensity & Overexcitabilities in the following areas: Psychomotor, Sensual, Intellectual, Imaginational, Emotional
Website
- gro-gifted.org
- Davidsongifted.org
Research
Resources
Research
Current Landscape
- In addition to behavioral differences, structural and functional differences are found in the Gifted brain, when compared to a Neurotypical brain. Enlarged brain regions, greater cortical thickness, and connectivity, delayed neural pruning and increased recruitment of explicit vs. implicit processing systems.
- The above contribute to asynchronous development, which can lead to various behavior challenges, personally, or socially, and educational challenges.
- Behavior often presents similarly to ADHD and ASD.
Citations
- Dabrowski, K., and M. M. Piechowski. (1977). Theory of Levels of Emotional Development:Volume 1 Multilevelness and Positive Disintegration. Dabor Science
- Bozkurt, A., & Ayik, Z. (2024). The relationship between giftedness and sex and children’s theory of mind skill and social behavior. Children. 11(2). 253
- Davis, G.A., Rimm, S.B. (1998). Education of the gifted and talented. Allyn & Bacon. Ed.
- Dickman, C. (2024). Neural correlates of giftedness: Implicit and explicit theory of mind networks, a cross-sectional study (M.Sc Thesis, Kings College London)
- Karpinski, R.I., Kolb, A.M. Tetreault, N.A., Borowski, T.B. (2018). High intelligence: A risk factor for psychological and physiological overexcitabilities. Intelligence. 66. 8-23
- Kuhn, T., Blades, R., Gottlieb, L. (2021). Neuroanatomical differences in the memory systems of intellectural giftedness and typical development. Brain and Behavior. 11(11)
- Shaw, P., Greenstein, D., Lerch, J.P., Giedd, J. (2006). Intellectual ability and cortical development in children and adolscents. Nature. 440(7084). 676-9
- Solé-Casals, J., Serra-Grabulosa, J.M., Romero-Garcia, R., Vilaseca, G., Adan, A., Vilaró, N., Bargalló, N., Bullmore, E.T. (2019). Structural brain network of gifted children has a more integrated and versatile topology. Brain Struct Funct. 224(7). 2373-2383
- Sternberg, R.J., Davidson, J.E. (2005). Conceptions of giftedness. Cambridge University Press