ABOUT JEN’S WORK

Jennifer is a psychologist, coach, mentor & trainer who provides courses, assessments, and personal and professional development guidance for gifted people and the professionals who support them. She is the founding director of InterGifted – a worldwide personal and social development community. Her work is dedicated to raising awareness about giftedness, helping gifted individuals better understand their unique mental make-up and translate that into constructing satisfying lives, and helping professionals to be better equipped to support their gifted clients in meaningful ways. She writes on these topics for Rediscovering Yourself’s blog, InterGifted’s blog, and in her upcoming books. You can also learn about her work on healing gifted trauma via her podcast Conversations on Gifted Trauma. Most recently, as a response to the climate crisis, she is working to support people around the world to heal from ecological grief and mobilize meaningfully to resolve the crisis, via I Heart Earth.

JEN’S BACKGROUND

Jennifer’s studies and contributions have followed the traditionally gifted non-linear path. Originally trained in psychology, classical music, and coaching in the U.S. (Master in Counseling, Bachelor in Music and Psychology, Diploma in Life Coaching), she decided to carve out a non-conventional path, coming to settle (for now) in Europe, first Italy and now Switzerland with her husband. She has worked in business, entrepreneurship, teaching, coaching and guidance in different ways since her early 20’s. Her work and reflections have been highly influenced by her mentors and the teachings of masters of various disciplines, among others the Dalai Lama, David R. Hawkins, Eckhart Tolle, Erich Fromm, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Daniel Kahneman, David Chalmers, and Kazimierz Dabrowski.

In 2015, Jen founded InterGifted in order to help gifted people around the world connect. She also dedicates much of her time to writing on self-development for gifted people. In addition to the blogs she write for (listed in section above), she is in the process of working on two books about giftedness: a theoretical book called Intense Minds: Mental Complexity and the Construction of the Self, which aims to open up to a productive dialog on the positive evolution of self through the model of gifted cognition; and a personal memoir which follows her challenging journey of growing up gifted.

TRAINING, MENTORING, SUPERVISION

for Helping Professionals Who Support the Gifted Population

I am passionate about supporting coaches and other helping professionals dedicate their work to supporting the gifted population. I train coaches, psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, counselors, and social workers on the fundamental complex dynamics of gifted cognition and guide them to best support their gifted clients. You can learn about my group training sessions here or contact me below to explore individual training, mentoring or supervision sessions.

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ASSESSMENTS FOR GIFTED ADULTS

Giftedness is not a one-size-fits-all concept. Within giftedness there are levels and flavors; and if anything else is added to giftedness, such as ADHD, Autism, learning disabilities or other similar conditions, giftedness can be very hard to fully understand. Even if one has an IQ score that “proves” one’s giftedness according to that measure, the intelligence that makes one good at IQ testing is far from the whole picture of one’s “giftedness profile”.

Assessment sessions with me are designed to help you look at the full picture of your giftedness (or possible giftedness, if you’re not sure yet): including your level and areas of giftedness, and any second exceptionalities you have and how that affects your expression of giftedness. If you have an IQ score, that can be a helpful data point for us to include in our analysis, but we are looking at a picture larger than just logico-mathematical intelligence. We are looking at a more holistic picture of how your mind takes in and organizes the world, and how that translates into your unique gifted perception, expression, challenges and opportunities.

Assessments can be done in one two-hour session; many people like to take two to three two-hour sessions in total, so that we can look more deeply into how your giftedness combines with your unique personality style, culture, family culture, educational opportunities or lack thereof, and so on, to get a more complete picture. However, one session is sufficient for a basic understanding of your level and areas of giftedness.

Many people want to continue coaching or mentoring sessions following the assessment session(s), and for that, I connect assessment clients with coaches from my InterGifted Coaching Network. Most like to join my InterGifted Peer Community or Highly, Exceptionally & Profoundly Gifted Group in order to connect with their gifted peers from around the world and learn more about themselves and giftedness through healthy mirroring and community participation. Essentially, in my work, I’m dedicated to helping you find the right ongoing support for living out your giftedness in the most fulfilling way possible for you, and for many that starts with an assessment.

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MENTORING & COACHING

for Highly, Exceptionally & Profoundly Gifted Adults

The jumping off point for mentoring and coaching highly, exceptionally and profoundly gifted adults is never predictable: maybe it’s a pressing life question they’ve been unable to answer on their own, progress on personal development or a major project, healing from trauma, or a need to discover and understand their very unusual minds – or some combination of these and more.

Sessions are non-linear and follow where the client’s mind takes us, with guidance from me to marry meta perspectives and micro practice. It is common, but not mandatory, that sessions last several hours. They also often happen in spurts – one or several in a row followed by a pause while insights are integrated. Highly, exceptionally and profoundly gifted adults learn in meta-steps, thus a non-linear partnering which adapts to their need for comprehensive and in-depth understanding, uncommon speed and unusual thinking style is needed. If you don’t know whether you are highly, exceptionally, or profoundly gifted, read my article here or consider scheduling an assessment session to explore the question with me.

Due to high demand, I am currently unable to take new coaching clients; however I have trained and mentor coaches within my InterGifted network who are themselves highly to profoundly gifted, and specialize in the support of highly to profoundly gifted adults. Feel free to reach out to me for a personalized referral.

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LOGISTICS & COSTS

Training and mentoring sessions are 250 Swiss Francs per hour; assessment sessions of two hours are 725 Swiss Francs. They are held virtually by Skype/zoom/phone, or in person in and around Arbon, Switzerland; in English, French or Italian. Email coaching and mentoring are billed at the same hourly rate. I generally have a waiting list of about 12 months for individual assessment and training/mentoring sessions. If you prefer to get support sooner, or if my fees are prohibitive for your budget, consider contacting me for a referral to one of the coaches in my InterGifted Coaching Network, most of whom have trained with and are mentored by me (their coaching fees range from 75 USD to 180 USD per hour, and they have quicker availability).