I offer in person and online coaching to support gifted individuals who think and process the world differently, which is often at odds with others around them and society as a whole. Gifted individuals can be viewed in various contexts as having an easy life with little problems due to their gifts, however various forms of giftedness often result in isolation, loneliness, invalidation, and feeling misunderstood across the lifespan. Examples of those I coach include:

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• Mental health professionals (e.g., psychologists, counsellors, coaches)

• Allied health professionals (e.g., social workers, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, dieticians, exercise physiologists, physiotherapists)

• Medical professionals (e.g., doctors, psychiatrists, dentists, GPs, specialists)

• Other professionals (e.g., business executives, lawyers, engineers, financial advisors, scientists, IT specialists)

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Sessions are 60 minutes in length and cost $350 plus GST. A longer 90 minute initial session can also be requested at a cost of $525 plus GST. Multi-session packs are also available. Formal identification of giftedness is not required. Sessions are highly collaborative and goal orientated in nature driven in your desired direction. Areas that could be worked on include:

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• Understanding your profile of giftedness

• Developing other areas of your profile

• Exploring overexcitabilities and their impact

• Identifying impact of late identification of giftedness

• Understanding existential crises and existential depression

• Helping to reduce and decrease chronic boredom

• Resolving misunderstanding and invalidation due to differences

• Decreasing masking your intelligence around others

• Understanding and reducing perfectionism and self-criticalness

• Increasing self-compassion

• Identifying any areas of gifted trauma

• Navigate and understand multipotentiality

• Living with hyper-empathy and emotional sensitivity

• Overcome and understand cycles of burnout

• Decontextualise past experiences seen as "wasted"

• Designing high complexity environments

• Managing imposterism

• Reducing overall masking and camouflaging to fit in

• Building a more holistic self-identity

• Navigating gaps in communication due to thinking style

• Managing interpersonal relationships and partnerships

• Translating vision into action

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Additionally, I offer executive coaching to employees via their place of work to help with areas such as:

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• Understanding areas of strength and challenge

• Unpacking difficulties within team environments

• Mitigating cycles of burnout and exhaustion

• Identifying appropriate accommodations and adjustments to support productivity

• Exploring issues associated with particular giftedness profiles

• Identifying appropriate accommodations and adjustments

• Exploring areas of ineffectiveness or unproductivity to determine cause and areas for improvement

• Improve long-term planning, vision setting, and alignment with workplace goals

• Strengthening emotional intelligence through building self-awareness, empathy, emotional regulation, and perspective taking

• Managing a variety of interpersonal relationships

• Build confidence and self-efficacy in leadership roles

• Explore communication strategies to aid in effective dialogue

• Sharpen problem solving skills and judgement under pressure

• Improve skills around delegation and conflict resolution

 

Costs for executive coaching is the same as above, invoiced to the workplace and can include a brief report on progress made after an agreed number of sessions (e.g., usually 6).

 

Whereas traditional therapy focuses on mental health difficulties and healing historical conditions and wounds via a client-practitioner relationship, gifted coaching and executive coaching focuses on self-understanding, development, and navigating life as a gifted adult via peer-to-peer sessions with a gifted and highly trained coach who is also a clinical psychologist. Coaching provides the much needed mirroring that most of us have missed out on during our lives, which is essential for building a well-rounded identity in all contexts (e..g, work, home, socially). Coaching is also goal focused and targeted with sessions containing free flowing discussions that allow processing, integration, and progress forward. 

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Determining if we are a good match and the right fit is essential for our work together and ensures steady and solid progress. This is often easily determined during our initial email exchange where we can both get a feel for each other's style. I welcome you to reach out to me at any time with any queries, comments, or questions without any obligations.

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