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
6-8
June
Gifted Home Education Conference: DIY Education
Free
Live in the GHF Online Forum
Event Info
We hope to see you, June 6-8, for GHF’s biggest event of the year, the 5th annual Gifted Home Ed: DIY Education Conference, LIVE & FREE in the GHF Forum! Check out this line-up of beautiful humans who know their gifted/2e stuff, all ready to share their expertise and talk with you:
- Dr. Michael Postma (keynote)
- Amber Trueblood (keynote)
- Autumn Arnett
- Dr. Joy Lawson Davis
• Sharon Duncan - Dr. Erinn Fears Floyd
- Dr. Barry Gelston
- Kyla Hunte
- Lisa Jobe
- Marni Kammersell
- Ha Knight
- Dr. Lin Lim
- Carol Malueg
- Yekaterina O’Neil
- Kasi Peters
- Jaime Smith
- Suki Wessling
- Marna Wohlfeld
Interactive and informal, with built-in time for discussion, this year’s theme focuses on the Why? How? and Who? of homeschooling, enriching and parenting the gifted and multi-exceptional. Have a browse and RSVP today: https://www.ghflearners.org/2025-ghf-conference-schedule-1
Summit Center is proud to be a sponsor, along with other sponsors Bridges Academy Online, Game and Learn, Gifted and Thriving, NeuroD Is Me, OnlineG3, Sequoia Gifted and Creative, Sierra Gifted Environmental School, and Tilt Parenting.
7, 8
July
Smart & Savvy Skills & Support for Girls and Female-Identified Teens
with Dr. Loraine Van Tuyl
In person in Walnut Creek (first of 5 weekly sessions)
Event Info
Smart & Savvy Skills & Support for Girls and Female-Identified Teens This Summer in Walnut Creek
Licensed psychologist Dr. Loraine Van Tuyl is bringing together small in-person groups of girls and female-identified teens for genuine connection, validation, sharing, art and journaling, self reflection, and calm centering. If your teen feels left out, or unsure of themselves due to fluctuating mood swings or social pressures, this group offers a safe space where true self, feelings, and individual needs are celebrated and supported. In fun and creative ways, teens will learn more about themselves and practical guidance on how to handle challenges they’re struggling with.
Monday (ages 11-14) and Tuesday (ages 14-17) evenings 6:30-8 pm, Jul 7- Aug 5. Early bird $375 for 5 sessions. Learn more & register directly at https://bit.ly/3FHAmOm or set up a 30 min consult with Dr. Van Tuyl to help decide if group will meet needs.
24-25
July
SENG Annual Community Conference & Retreat
Alexandria, VA
presented by Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG)
Event Info
The Annual Community Conference & Retreat is truly a unique experience you won’t find anywhere else!
This intimate gathering brings together experts in the field, gifted adults, parents navigating their child’s gifted journey (while likely being gifted themselves), educators, counselors, gifted children and more—all with a shared mission to support and uplift our gifted and 2e community.
It’s a place to learn from one another, share your unique voice, gather valuable resources and build lifelong connections within the SENG family. Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding and create lasting relationships!
The pre-conference begins on July 23rd with your choice of APA courses, SENG Community Group Facilitator Training, and SENGconnects with your board members!
Keynote presentations by Cally Fox, founding director of the BYU ARTS Partnership, and Julie Skolnick, psychologist, author, and founder of With Understanding Comes Calm. Over 30 break-out sessions will be presented, and a children’s camp will be available.
Learn more & register: https://www.sengifted.org/sengannualconference
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