Assessment | 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, 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.
Make Your Worrier a Warrior
With this award-winning book by Dr. Dan Peters, parents can team up with their children or teens to help them conquer the Worry Monster. ORDER NOW
Evaluations & Counseling with Doctoral Trainees
Our training program allows more clients to access high-quality Summit Center services at reduced fees. Appointments are virtual when possible, or at our Walnut Creek office.
Boosting Your Child’s Natural Creativity
Our founders Dr. Dan Peters and Dr. Susan Daniels are out with their latest book! Published by Gifted Unlimited for parents and teachers. GET THE BOOK
Latest Newsletter
February 2024 Summit Center Update: Enhancing Family Effectiveness. Educational coaching for gifted/2e kids, parenting podcasts, & more! READ OUR NEWSLETTER
Are you or your child having trouble at school, home, at work, or with peers?
We offer psychological & educational services for children, adolescents, adults
Assessments
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.
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 & Support
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.
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
Creating a Roadmap to Better Health
Dr. Jeannie Lopez offers health & wellness consultations for individuals and families, combining her psychology background with functional medicine knowledge to help clients learn about alternative treatments, better manage chronic symptoms, and support lifestyle changes. In these three example case studies…
Let’s Release Our Youth From the College Anxiety Epidemic, by Dr. Dan Peters
College anxiety didn’t exist when I was young or at least I don’t remember it.
Raising Gifted / 2e Girls
By Dr. Lisa White, Ph.D. Legendary country singer Tammy Wynette sang, “Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman…” But you know what’s really hard? Being a middle school girl. Or a high school girl. Or even an elementary school girl. And being gifted or 2e (twice...
PODCAST
Parent Footprint with Dr. Dan
Dr. Dan Peters’s online talk show teaches parents, families, and caregivers how to leave their best footprint for the next generation. Dr. Dan interviews a top parenting expert in each episode, including doctors, therapists, authors, and educators, to discuss diverse and timely parenting topics. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn Radio, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, Android, RSS, or the show page.
Upcoming Events
17
April
Summit Center Webinar: Parenting with Awareness, Purpose, and Intention
with Dr. Dan Peters
Virtual
Event Info
Summit Center is proud to present the first in a series of webinars from our team of professionals, speaking on topics important to our families.
Dr. Dan Peters, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Summit Center will speak on “Parenting with Awareness, Purpose, and Intention” on Wednesday, April 17, at 12 noon.
About the talk: Parenting is hard. We are bombarded continually with messages that create fear and worry about our children’s future. Will they be able to take care of themselves? Will they make the team? Will they get into a good college? Will they be successful? We all want the best for our children and spend considerable time and resources to meet this goal. This talk will address the importance of a parent’s awareness about themselves as key to raising healthy, engaged, and happy children. By being engaged in one’s own life, being clear about where you came from, and being aware of what you want to pass on to your children, you can parent with purpose. Come learn how to use your own increased awareness to help your kids reach their potential.
FREE. Recordings will be available after the event for a fee. Register Here
15
May
Summit Center Webinar: Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Overview of Everything in 60 Minutes
with Dr. Lisa Hancock
Virtual
Event Info
Learn about strengths, weaknesses, common misperceptions, and common misdiagnoses related to Autism Spectrum Disorder in this webinar with Dr. Lisa Hancock, an autism specialist who works with children, adults, and couples. Why might an actual diagnosis be important? What is the difference between school criteria for special education due to autism and a medical diagnosis? What do assessments involve? Dr. Hancock will also discuss non-typical presentations of ASD (gifted, AFAB, PDA) and address challenges and interventions across the lifespan. Wednesday, May 15, at 12 noon PDT. Attend online for free; recording available later for a fee. Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/4aTcscR.
10-13
July
SENG 2024 Annual Community Conference
hosted by Supporting Emotional Needs of Gifted (SENG)
Berkeley, CA
Event Info
Join SENG in Berkeley, CA the summer of 2024 for adventures, community building and experiencing the joys of giftedness. Paula Prober of the Rainforest Mind will present the Keynote Spotlight on “The Complex, Compassionate, Creative, Crushing World of the Gifted Adult – The Musical!” and Dr. Frank C. Worrell will present “Shaping Brilliance: The Art of Growing Giftedness.” They also have an amazing line up of breakout sessions and workshops under the theme “Sailing into the Future: Community, Advocacy & Adventure.”