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
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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
16
April
Conscious Parenting: Shifting from Auto-Pilot to Aligned
with Dr. Loraine Van Tuyl
FREE webinar
Event Info
Our strong-willed and sensitive 2e kids often cause us to stop in our “automatic pilot” tracks with intense outbursts, melt downs, and power struggles that baffle us. Summit Center’s Dr. Loraine Van Tuyl is a clinical psychologist and an art, sand tray, and play therapist of 2e kids between ages 6-18 as well as a meditative guide of neurodivergent grown-ups. In this presentation, she will shed light on the inner worlds of her child clients and why they become more cooperative, resilient, and regulated the more we slow down, become more aware and intentional, and deepen our authentic presence. FREE, Wednesday April 16, at 12 noon PDT. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3DE4QQw
22
April
Find Your Tribe – Gifted Senior Discussion Group
with Paula Wilkes, PhD
Meets online
First of 4 weekly sessions
Event Info
Summit Center’s Paula Wilkes, PhD, will lead this open-ended discussion group for older adults 55+ who are gifted or twice-exceptional (formal identification not required to participate). Meet like-minded peers online to discuss topics like overexcitabilities, multi-potentiality, sensitivities, unmasking our giftedness, unpacking who we are, and anything else the group would like to discuss. The group will meet virtually every Tuesday at 10:00 am (Pacific) starting on April 22. $150 for 4 sessions. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3FrZdFB
14
May
Raising Successful Gifted Daughters: Insights from a Groundbreaking Study
with Paula Wilkes, PhD, and author Lea Stublarec, MSW
FREE webinar
Event Info
Join Summit Center coach Paula Wilkes, PhD, and author Lea Stublarec, MSW, as they unveil key findings from an insightful study on 43 mothers of successful gifted daughters. This webinar will offer invaluable guidance and hope for women navigating the unique challenges and complexities of raising gifted girls in a culture that often limits their potential. FREE webinar, Wednesday May 14, at 12 noon PDT. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4iGgfxU
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