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
Upcoming Groups and Classes for Parents
Join our professionals in Walnut Creek, Torrance, or Los Angeles for support and learning about parenting, gifted/2e, or executive function. LEARN MORE
Parent Footprint Awareness Training
Dr. Dan’s interactive training program for parents is based on the fact that the most important predictor of how we parent is how we were parented as a child. LEARN MORE & SAVE
Latest 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 occasional workshops, classes, 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
Taking Time Out from Tech
by Melanie Soloway, J.D., C.P.E. Earlier this year, I wrote an article about the importance of setting limits. I also discussed how sticking to them is the stickiest part. As a mother of three teens, I can assure you that I have experienced plenty of challenges...
read more
Nurturing Everyday Creativity in Children, by Dr. Susan Daniels
Nurturing creativity in children has been an interest of mine over my entire career—while working with gifted children in an enrichment setting, while teaching in an independent school, and while working with teachers and graduate students at the university and in...
read more
Setting Limits… It’s Sticking to Them That Gets Sticky! by Melanie Soloway Prager, J.D., C.P.E.
When they are little, it is relatively easy to set the limits we need to protect our children. It was not necessary for me to have a degree in rocket science to know that putting a bumper on the cribs of my twins would protect them from hitting their heads. As...
read moreParent Footprint
Podcast 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 (for Android), Spotify, TuneIn Radio, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, Android, RSS, or the show page.
Upcoming Events
21
January 2020
Raising Enlightened Children 5-Week Course (first session)
St. Martin of Tours School, Los Angeles
Event Info
Melanie Soloway, J.D., C.P.E., Summit Center’s Parent Educator, is presenting her Raising Enlightened Children 5-week Course on Tuesday mornings, 9:15 – 11:15 am, January 21 through February 18, 2020, at St. Martin of Tours School in Los Angeles. Melanie explains that “Time Outs” for toddlers or “Taking Privileges Away” from teens may stop unwanted behaviors, but at what cost? The key to connecting with your kids and growing healthy relationships is to fill your toolbox with understanding, knowledge, and positive parenting tools. Melanie will provide you with strategies using a brain-based approach to strengthen your bonds with your children. More info at https://conta.cc/2NVtxdl.
27
January 2020
Discussion Group for Parents of Gifted and 2e Children (first meeting)
Walnut Creek, CA
Event Info
Discussion Group for Parents of Gifted and 2e Children Monday mornings, 10:00 am – 11:30 am, 6 sessions beginning January 27, 2020. Group will discuss the unique challenges that gifted children bring to families, along with learning more about the social emotional needs, and resources that are available. Facilitated by Dr. Ellena Chen & Melanie Hayes, certified SENG facilitators. Space is limited, and pre-registration is required. Details at https://conta.cc/36crwkt
4
February 2020
Discussion Group for Parents of Gifted and 2e Children (first meeting)
Torrance, CA
Event Info
Discussion and Support Group for Parents of Gifted and 2e Children, focuses on the social and emotional needs of gifted and 2e children, and the parenting issues related to those needs. Meets in Torrance on Tuesday evenings, 6:00-7:30pm, for 6 sessions starting February 4, 2020. Facilitated by licensed psychologist Dr. Lisa Hancock. Space is limited, and pre-registration is required. Details at https://conta.cc/2qYULs1.