Assessment | Coaching | Consultation | Counseling
Helping Children, Teens, Adults, and Families Realize Their Potential
Summit Center can provide the answers to your questions. We offer psychological and educational services for children, adolescents, adults, and families, including assessments, coaching, consultation, and counseling.
Our team of psychologists, consultants, and educators use a collaborative, strengths-based approach to work with our clients. Our goal is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the individual and provide a roadmap for making personal, parenting, school, and life decisions. Better understanding the “why” of a person’s behavior can provide relief to parents, teachers, and the individual, and is often the first key step toward maximizing potential.
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Assessments
Summit Center offers various evaluations, also known as assessments. These may be narrow in scope (i.e., IQ testing) or comprehensive, assessing a child’s multiple levels of functioning (i.e., intellectual, academic, neuropsychological, social, emotional, and behavioral). Each evaluation is tailored based on the goals and questions to be answered.
Counseling
The Summit Center offers individual, family, and group counseling (also known as psychotherapy) utilizing a strength-based approach to problem-solving and optimizing growth potential through a developmental lens. Our counseling services can help clients address a wide variety of issues.
Coaching & Consultation
We provide consultation on a variety of issues such as parenting, giftedness, twice-exceptionality (2e), finding the right school fit, health and wellness, and more. We also provide coaching services for life and career, ADHD, spiritual sensitivity and awareness, and executive functioning.
Educational Therapy
Our trained professionals combine educational and therapeutic approaches to assist students whose learning challenges at school are not resolving. Some issues that we address include dyslexia, dyscalculia, test-taking difficulties, and problems with organization and managing time. Educational therapy is not the same as tutoring. Our work is remedial, designed to fill gaps in background, understanding, and learning strategies in order to develop independent learners.
Parent Education
Summit Center offers workshops, classes, webinars, and discussion groups for parents, led by one of our experienced professionals. Groups for parents or gifted adults allow participants to share concerns and gain support from others who have similar experiences.
Are you or your child having trouble at school, home, at work, or with peers?
We offer psychological & educational services for children, adolescents, adults
Our Expertise
Summit Center’s team of professionals offers a wide array of expertise to help children, teens, adults, or families deal with these issues:
- ADD/ADHD
- Anxiety
- Asynchronous development
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Dyslexia
- Executive-functioning issues
- Giftedness
- Learning and attention issues
- Perfectionism
- Sadness and depression
- Stress
- Twice-exceptional (2e)
- and more
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PODCAST
Make It A Great One with Dr. Dan
Dr. Dan Peters invites you to discover your purpose, explore new possibilities, and live in alignment with your authentic self. Each episode features inspiring interviews with thought leaders and experts designed to ignite hope, deepen self-awareness, and provide actionable guidance and wisdom to empower you to become a better version of yourself and make a positive impact on the world around you. Listen and subscribe on your favorite platform, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, or the show page.
Upcoming Events
24
October
Human Potential Conference: Mindful Parenting During Times of Uncertainty
hosted by East Bay Mindfulness Center
Hillside Club, Berkeley, California
Event Info
The West Coast Mindfulness Institute presents the third annual Human Potential Conference, Friday, October 24, at 5:30 pm PDT at the Hillside Club in Berkeley. This year’s conference explores the journey from adult child to mindful parent, the latest in gender care and inclusion, and strategies for managing screen time and real-world engagement. Sessions will also focus on supporting twice-exceptional children, transforming parental worry into advocacy, and navigating today’s evolving educational landscape.
This year’s Keynote Speaker, Dr. Lindsay Gibson, is the New York Times bestselling author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents. Dr. Dan Peters will participate in a panel discussion on Mindful Parenting, led by Dr. James H. Bramson, and featured on the Shrinksrap.com podcast. Other event highlights include live music, food & drink, opportunities for networking and discussion.
14
November
Recognizing Signs of Emotional Distress in Youth and Providing Supportive Solutions
Parent Ed Event with Dr. Lisa Hancock at Fusion Academy
Palos Verdes, CA
Event Info
In this presentation, Dr. Lisa Hancock highlights the common signs that may indicate a young person is experiencing emotional distress or mental health challenges. These indicators include declining academic performance, changes in eating and sleeping patterns, shifts in social behavior, difficulties with friendships, increased isolation, noticeable fluctuations in weight, and persistent worries about the future. Recognizing these signs early can help prompt supportive interventions and resources.
Dr. Hancock will also present an overview of how different types/levels of evaluation/testing can help by informing interventions such as ed therapy, counseling, executive function coaching, subject tutoring, neurofeedback, occupational therapy, auditory/visual training, TMS, social skills support, speech/language therapy, parent coaching, and family therapy.
19
November
Summit Center Webinar: Collaborative Assessments to Better Understand Yourself or Your Child
with Dr. Lisa Nakamura
FREE – Virtual
Event Info
What can a therapeutic, collaborative assessment look like for a child, youth, or adult? In this webinar, Dr. Lisa Nakamura will provide information about how this interactive approach can help one actively learn about their learning style and emotional patterns. This can, in turn, help the evaluation see the whole person and identify recommendations. Dr. Nakamura believes that when people better understand their strengths and challenges, they can enlist their strengths to address their struggles and feel empowered in the process. This webinar is for adults or parents of children and adolescents considering assessment.
Wednesday, November 19, at 12 noon PST, online via Google Meet. Free. Learn more and register
In Crisis?
For a behavioral or mental health crisis, call or text 988 or chat on 988lifeline.org
National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 800-273-8255
Trevor Project Lifeline (LGBTQ youth): 866-488-7386 or text START to 678-678