Collaborative Therapeutic Assessments To Better Understand Yourself or Your Child (Webinar aired 11/19/25) What can a therapeutic, collaborative assessment look like for a child, youth, or adult? In this webinar, Summit Center’s Dr. Lisa Nakamura will provide information about how this interactive approach can help one actively learn about their learning style and emotional patterns. This can, in turn, help the evaluation see the whole person and identify recommendations. Dr. Nakamura believes that when people better understand their strengths and challenges, they can enlist their strengths to address their struggles and feel empowered in the process. This webinar is for adults or parents of children and adolescents considering assessment. 41 minutes. https://youtu.be/NVuIsy8sjV4

Alarm Clocks, Accommodations, and AI: What to Think About When Your 2e Kid is Thinking About College (Webinar aired 10/8/25) Do you have a 2e high schooler who is considering attending college? Are you wondering whether they have the skills to manage living away from home (and without you nearby!)? Would a gap year or community college be a better choice? Are you concerned about how they will handle friendships, technology, dating, homework, and self-care? Are you unsure how much you should be involved? Summit Center psychologist Dr. Lisa White discusses these topics and more in an informative webinar, with questions from the audience at the end of the recording. Length: 1 hour, 16 mins. Watch: https://youtu.be/GeB8b9LdOlo

Raising Successful Gifted Daughters (Webinar aired 5/14/25) Summit Center coach Dr. Paula Wilkes and author/researcher Lea Stublarec, MSW, unveil key findings from an insightful study on mothers of successful gifted daughters, as featured in the book Legacy: Mothers of Gifted Daughters Share Their Wisdom. This webinar shares the hard-won wisdom of 43 experienced mothers and 20 of their accomplished adult daughters, offering invaluable guidance and hope for women navigating the unique challenges and complexities of raising gifted girls in a culture that often limits their potential. Length: 1 hour, 20 mins. Watch: https://youtu.be/1ZXhVe_ub2I

Conscious Parenting: Shifting from Auto-Pilot to Aligned 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 will reveal the inner worlds of her child clients and why they become more cooperative, resilient, and regulated when we slow down and become more aware of our parental presence and priorities. Dr. 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. Length: 56 minutes. Watch: https://youtu.be/816RUBV3YeA

The Importance of Coaching for Gifted Adults: A Discussion with Dr. Paula Wilkes and Professor Faik Bouhrik Join Summit Center coach Paula Wilkes, PhD, and her former client Professor Faik Bouhrik for this webinar as they describe their journey of gifted growth. 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. 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. Length: 1 hour, 16 minutes. Watch: https://youtu.be/VUB–CR_jZg

Twice Exceptional (2e), Neurodivergent, Highly Sensitive, & Medically Complex with Dr. Jeannie Lopez What types of struggles do 2e and neurodivergent families face? What does it mean to be highly sensitive and medically complex? How can we support and guide children and adults with multiple sensitivities in academic settings and daily life? Summit Center psychologist Dr. Jeannie Lopez, Ph.D., FDN-P, will provide an overview of these topics and explore these challenges through different types of assessments and functional medicine approaches to healing. She will also offer ideas for lifestyle changes that can improve the health and well-being of the child and their family. Duration: 84 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFt9E1KXYPM

Childhood Anxiety: What Parents, Teachers, and Therapists Need To Know Have you noticed that your child or student has become more agitated, restless, clingy, isolated, or withdrawn? Does your child complain of headaches, insomnia, a decreased appetite, or stomach aches? If so, then your child might be suffering from anxiety, the number one mental health problem in our country. In this webinar, Summit Center psychologist Dr. Ginny Ritchey will address topics including: the warning signs and symptoms of anxiety, the cognitive and evolutionary models, the core fears for most people, the common characteristics of anxious children, and what to do and not do to help children manage their anxiety. Duration: 54 minutes. https://youtu.be/E37Mjoajemw

School Daze: Finding the Right Educational Environment for Your 2e Child 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. In this Summit Center webinar, psychologist Dr. Lisa 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, being honest about your child’s needs while still letting them shine as an applicant. Duration: 1 hour, 25 minutes. https://youtu.be/dYSvfxjZlzY

Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Overview of Everything in 60 Minutes Presented by Dr. Lisa Hancock, an autism specialist who works with children, adults, and couples who have diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Learn about strengths, weaknesses, common misperceptions, common misdiagnoses, co-occurring disorders. Dr. Hancock will also discuss non-typical presentations of ASD (gifted, AFAB, PDA) as well as address challenges and interventions across the lifespan. Why might an actual diagnosis be important? What is the difference between meeting school criteria for eligibility for special education and a medical diagnosis? Duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes. https://youtu.be/ebb8bUvdu30

Parenting with Awareness, Purpose, and Intention with Dr. Dan Peters Parenting is hard. We are bombarded continually with messages that create fear and worry about our children’s future. Will they be able to take care of themselves? Will they make the elite team? Will they get into a good college? Will they be successful? We all want the best for our children and spend considerable time engaging in activities and resources to meet this goal. This talk will address the importance of a parent’s awareness about themselves as key to raising healthy, engaged, and happy children. By being engaged in one’s own life, being clear about where you came from, and being aware of what you want to pass on to your children, you can parent with purpose, which is aligned with your goals for your child. Duration: 61 minutes. High resolution. https://youtu.be/JX9kYlng0TE

Taming the Worry Monster: Helping Your Child Deal With Stress and Anxiety (2012) Dr. Peters describes a model for overcoming anxiety by understanding how the “Worry Monster” tricks children (and adults) into being scared. For both children and adults, viewers will learn about how the fear response works in our bodies, how our thoughts determine our emotions, and how changing our thoughts and facing our fears, will help us lead worry-free and more satisfying lives. Duration: 58 minutes. High resolution. https://youtu.be/Ly0_xUvtC_8

The Characteristics of Gifted Learners(2012) Dr. Peters describes the characteristics of gifted learners and the factors that can influence or hinder their development. Viewers will learn risk factors that gifted children face, potential misdiagnoses, what it means to be twice-exceptional (2e), and how to nurture a gifted child’s growth – helping them to maximize their developmental potential. Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes. High resolution. https://youtu.be/7IbTSeKMQY4

Living With Intensity: Understanding the the Gifted Child – Webinar with Dr. Susan Daniels Overexcitabiities (OEs) – psychomotor, sensual, intellectual, imaginational, and emotional – are central to the personality, intellectual, physical, and social-emotional development of the gifted. Overexcitabilities confer certain advantages for gifted development and at the same time render the gifted vulnerable to being misunderstood, and potentially, misidentified. Summit Center co-founder and Professor Emeritus Dr. Susan Daniels will address the advantages and the challenges associated with overexcitability along with strategies for helping gifted children modulate their OEs and channel these energies most positively. Dr. Daniels is co-author of the book “Living with Intensity” (Great Potential Press, 2008). 57 minutes. https://youtu.be/Fd9YxUMRJtg