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
Summit Center Blog
5 Signs Your Child May Need Mental Health Support (And What To Do Next)
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Every Day I’m Brave: Transforming Anxiety, OCD, and Fear into Courage and Connection
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The Hidden Struggle – Understanding the Rise of ADHD in Women
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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
21
May
GHF Gifted Ed Fair
Gifted Homeschoolers Forum
Virtual
Event Info
Join Gifted Homeschoolers Forum on Thursday, May 21 at 4pm PDT, as they host a selection of esteemed colleagues to answer questions about gifted-focus services, schools and camps. Learn more at https://www.ghflearners.org/virtualgiftededfair. To join, register for the GHF Forum for free, and RSVP in in the event.
6
July
Young Scholar Application Q&A Session
Davidson Institute
Virtual
Event Info
Finding out your child is profoundly gifted or twice-exceptional can be confusing and overwhelming. It may not be clear where to go to find resources to support your child. The Davidson Institute’s Young Scholar Program is here for you and your family.
If you have questions about what the Young Scholars Program is or how we can support your student, please consider attending an Application Q&A session on Monday, July 6, 2026 at 11:00 AM Pacific Time.
Leanr more & register here: https://www.davidsongifted.org/gifted-programs/young-scholars/admissions/young-scholar-application-qa/
18
July
SENG Summer Symposium
Supporting Emotional Needs of Gifted
Virtual
Event Info
SENG is excited to announce an inaugural one-day Summer Virtual Symposium on July 18th from 6:00 am-12:00 pm Pacific, 9:00am – 3:00pm Eastern. This symposium is designed to foster connection, learning, and community across the lifespan for gifted and twice-exceptional (2e) individuals, families, and other invested community members. Sessions during this event will highlight SENG’s unique mission: supporting the social, emotional, and overall well-being of gifted and 2e individuals, their families, and communities, not just traditional K–12 educational strategies and perspectives. Together, we can build a stronger, more connected SENG community that supports gifted and 2e individuals across all stages of life. Learn more and register: https://sengifted.org/seng-summer-symposium/
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