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
Worry Reminders for the Holidays, by Dr. Dan Peters
It is normal for our children to experience more stress and worry during the holidays. Among the...
Creating a Roadmap to Better Health
By Dr. Jeannie Lopez Summit Center’s Dr. Jeannie Lopez offers consultations for individuals and...
Let’s Release Our Youth From the College Anxiety Epidemic
By Dr. Dan Peters, Ph.D. New York Times columnist Frank Bruni once wrote a book called...
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
12
February
The Importance of Coaching for Gifted Adults: A Discussion
Webinar with Paula Wilkes, PhD and Professor Faik Bouhrik
FREE – Online
Event Info
Prepare to be inspired through an open-ended discussion about the importance of coaching for gifted adults. Topics to be covered will include: giftedness, multipotentiality, positive disintegration, executive functioning skills development, and cognitive flexibility. Dr. Wilkes and Professor Bouhrik look forward to participant questions.
Dr. Paula Wilkes, an ed therapist and coach for gifted children and adults through Summit Center, has been an educator for fifty years in both public schools and at the university level.
Professor Faik Bouhrik is a professor of physics and math, a cosmology researcher, an entrepreneur, and a professional writer.
Register now: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/f9vnsk7
28
February
Executive Function Support Course for Parents
with Deanna Kim, M.A.
Meets online
First of 5 weekly sessions
Event Info
Do you feel overwhelmed by your family’s calendar? Do you struggle with planning, organization, and time management for your children? Learn about executive functioning skills and how to build systems for your family in a small, interactive group. Virtual. Fridays, 12n-1pm (PST) begins February 28 for 5 weeks. Led by Deanna Kim, M.Ed., Summit Center’s Educational Therapist. Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/41SCn3b
1-2
March
California Association for the Gifted Annual Conference
Hilton Orange County
Early bird registration through 1/18/25
Event Info
“We’re excited to announce that the California Association for the Gifted (CAG) Annual Conference is just around the corner! Mark your calendars for March 1-2, 2025, at the Hilton Orange County.
“Join us in person for two enriching days packed with inspiring sessions, valuable networking opportunities, and the latest insights in gifted education.”
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