Common Issues w. Providers Who Lack Competency in Giftedness

Can you relate to any (all) of these experiences with wellness and/or healthcare providers?

1. My inner struggles are dismissed because I appear stoic externally and/or have a conceptual understanding of my issues.
2. I feel like I'm too fast for my provider.
3. I often get a glazed + confused look when I'm trying to explain my feelings or situation.
4. My concern with existential issues is pathologized or minimized.
5. I fear that I'm too intense for my provider and don't want to make anyone uncomfortable.
6. My deep concern for the world + environment doesn't feel like it has a place in my sessions.
7. ​I spend too much time explaining my metaphors or abstract thoughts that the session time runs out.

All of these are versions of statements I have heard from my gifted coaching + therapy clients over the years. While there are so many phenomenal therapists, coaches + wellness providers in the world (I truly mean that), understanding + working with giftedness is a specialization like any other in the clinical + wellness worlds. Without proper competence in the area of working with gifted clients, these sessions can stir unintended discomfort, misunderstanding, misdiagnosis and, on occasion, more gifted-related trauma for the client.

Method offers gifted-specific support with trained providers through gifted coaching + the life architecture program for gifted adults, which can even be a compliment to your current meaningful therapy work that may not have gifted components. We see you in all of your complexity, intensity and creativity. 

Also, stay tuned for Superwell, a new directory of professionals who specialize in working with creative, gifted and/or neurodivergent individuals. 

🍒Lindsey, weirdo + founder of Method Creative