2.2.4 Introducing SWIFT: The Smith/Westbrook Intellectual Frustration Therapy, Designed Specifically for Gifted Individuals

SWIFT – introducing a tailor-made therapy for gifted individuals designed specifically for helping them celebrate their intensity, inventiveness and intellect, while identifying and coping with the impact of chronic boredom, intellectual frustration, perfectionism and procrastination.

Take one psychologist and one counsellor and the twenty-eight years of practice they have between them in understanding and coping with intellectual giftedness and its impact on family life, schooling and mental health. Stir in the lived experience of both and the diversity of each, one highly visual and the other image-free. And you have a finely honed new approach to counselling that is client-centred, non-judgemental, empathetic and complex in abstract reasoning. It takes the gifted to know the gifted. SWIFT aims to celebrate intellectual giftedness and intensity and promote well being, while identifying trouble spots and helping parents advocate for greater academic challenge to alleviate chronic boredom. This is an interactive workshop designed to introduce a new counselling approach designed specifically for the gifted.

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