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.
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 collaborated on this book about nurturing creativity. Published by Gifted Unlimited for parents and teachers. GET THE BOOK
Latest Newsletter
May 2024 Summit Center Update: Shifting Perspectives. Gifted Home Education event, SENG conference discount, new parenting podcasts, and 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.
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.
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
7-9
June
Gifted Home Education Conference
GHF Learners
Virtual
Event Info
GHF Learners presents their annual Gifted Home Education Conference: Come As You Are 2024. Dr. Dan Peters will be the keynote speaker, and Summit Center is proud to be a sponsor. Learn more and sign up for FREE at https://www.ghflearners.org/2024-ghf-conference-schedule
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.” Attend an amazing line up of breakout sessions and workshops under the theme “Sailing into the Future: Community, Advocacy & Adventure.” Summit Center is proud to be a sponsor. Dr. Dan Peters will lead a SENGchat on Thursday afternoon on “Parenting with Purpose for Your Gifted/2e Child.” And Dr. Lisa White will participate in a panel on Advocacy.
For $50 off of your SENG registration, use the promo code SENG24Summit when you register.
18
September
Summit Center Webinar: School Daze: Finding the Right Educational Environment for Your 2e Child
with Dr. Lisa White
Virtual
Event Info
Summit Center is proud to present a series of webinars from our team of professionals, speaking on topics important to our families.
Dr. Lisa White, licensed psychologist, will speak on “School Daze: Finding the Right Educational Environment for Your 2e Child” on Wednesday, September 18, at 12 noon.
Learn about how to find the best educational environment for your 2e child, whether that be a public, independent, 1-1, or alternative school option. Dr. White will discuss what factors are important in choosing a school (the academics might be the least of it!), what questions to ask to find out whether a school could be a good fit, the fallacy of the “perfect” school, and how to determine if a school experience is a success or not working. Additionally, this presentation will cover how to best position your child in the application process, and being honest about your child’s needs while still letting them shine as an applicant.
FREE. Recordings will be available after the event for a fee.
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