Therapists and Professionals Archives - Page 4 of 11 - Institute for Educational Advancement

Guiding Exceptional Parents

Guiding Exceptional Parents, provides services including help with Special Needs Care Navigation, Parent Coaching, or with RDI™. RDI™ helps parents learn how to teach their children the essential skills that make relationships work. Parent Coaching includes developing customized strategies to address the challenges parents face as they work to support their child. Special Needs Care Navigation helps parents of kids with ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, or other unidentified challenges.

Gunn Psychological Services

Gunn Psychological Services is a group of professionals dedicated to providing the highest quality psychological services and referrals, including developmental, psychoeducational, and intellectual giftedness assessments, as well as individual, family, couples and group therapy.

Hand in Hand Education

Located in Maryland, Hand In Hand specializes in helping families and schools create unique educational plans for their special learning situation for children who are gifted and/or have special learning needs. They offer private consultations, educational testing, home-school compliance evaluations and more, in addition to offering many online resources and helpful guides.

Harris Buller Law

Harris Buller is an attorney specializing in education advocacy services that include IEPs and 504 plans, college and post-grad disability accommodations and Parent-Teacher and Administrative Conferences.

Help My Child Thrive Coaching

Tessa Currivan at Help My Child Thrive Coaching provides coaching for parents of highly sensitive, highly creative, gifted and 2e Children. The site also includes helpful articles to help parents identify their children’s needs in order to best support them. Tessa offers phone and video coaching sessions.

Homeschool Success

Barbara Hettle is an independent college counselor, specializing in homeschool consulting. She assists homeschooled high school students with all aspects of the college application process such as essay coaching, preparing homeschool transcripts, academic planning, and much more. She has first-hand experience with the unique needs of homeschool students going through college admissions and hopes to be able to share her expertise with others.

Infinite Therapeutic Services

The team at Infinite Therapeutic Services offers evaluations of children for giftedness, which they recommend to families who notice their children are not happy in their learning environment, observe some of the common characteristics, suspect they may have a learning disability, or are looking to apply to a gifted school or program.

Jade Ann Rivera

Jade Rivera has been working with twice exceptional children for nearly 10 years. Her work is inspired by her time spent running a micro-school in Oakland, California, where she worked to create a highly individualized learning environment. Jade offers family coaching, educational coaching, public speaking appearances, and community workshops to help 2e children and their families, as well as educators and professionals, better understand the unique needs and abilities of 2e children.

Jordan Psychological Assessment Center

Licensed psychologist Dr. Karen M. Jordan provides psychological and psychoeducational assessments for children, adolescents, and adults. These assessments are designed to address issues such as giftedness, best school fit, learning disorders, and emotional concerns. The center is located in Overland Park, Kansas.

Kate Duey

Kate Duey is a Certified College Consultant and the founder of Admissions Planning, LLC which provides high quality, customized, solution-oriented college application consulting and a proven commitment to creating the best college options for each and every student. Kate will discuss about the special issues facing gifted students and their families during the college search and application process. She has worked with IEA supporting gifted students since 2009 and has a wealth of knowledge about their unique challenges and their wonderful potential.

Kira Christensen

Kira Christensen is a Licensed Educational Psychologist in Sacramento, CA, specializing in educational consulting and diagnostic assessment of students from elementary school through high school and college, including adult students. Kira determines the presence of giftedness, intellectual and learning disabilities, including dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia, as well as the presence of memory, attention, and social emotional and behavioral problems impeding learning, such as ADHD, anxiety and depression.

Laurel Felt, Ph.D.

As a Project Curriculum & Learning Designer at Mattel, Dr. Felt supports the Child Development & Learning team in establishing world-class learning content and curriculum and activating child development and learning expertise across Mattel, all in the pursuit of helping children and families to optimally and joyfully learn through play.
As a Lecturer in business communication at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, she helps students to develop versatile skills and optimize professional experiences in order to prepare them for bright, dynamic futures.

Linda Powers-Leviton

Linda Powers-Leviton specializes in counseling for the gifted. She has her own psychotherapy private practice in addition to working at the West Coast Office of the Gifted Development Center. Her expertise with the gifted population (particularly the twice exceptional–those who also have learning or emotional challenges) has prepared her to offer a uniquely specialized program to address the particular needs of this community. She offers services by phone or email in addition to in person appointments.

Lynne Azpeitia, LFMT

Lynne Azpeitia is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist who works with gifted adults by encouraging, supporting and guiding them to achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Lynne provides coaching, counseling, psychotherapy and consultation services specially designed for gifted people.

Marianne Kuzujanakis

Marianne is a pediatrician, homeschool educator, gifted advocate, and writer. You can follow Marianne on Facebook, Twitter, and the Huffington Post.

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