Hello everyone -
I'm looking for a therapist who really 'gets' gifted kids and their issues. I think my son's getting increasingly stressed out by his social situation - the whole difference thing as he approaches junior high - and also has some trouble generalizing, personalizing, and catastrophizing what he sees around him. He can get in cycles of stress that seem to take those two problems and make them a vicious circle. I'd like to find someone who can help him feel like a perfectly normal human being, give him support in being who he is, and gently help him think of ways his own thinking might be making his experience worse. It's really hard to ask around for therapists in the parent community when the gifted 'thing' is a big part of the situation, and googling isn't getting me anywhere. We don't need a tester/assessor at the moment... just a good shrink of some sort.
thanks for any help or recommendations you can give! (and, in hopes of being useful too, here's a helpful blog post by Aimee Yermish on how to pick a therapist for a gifted person :
http://davincilearning.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/clues-on-finding-a-therapist-for-a-gifted-client/ )
