Need Help Educating Your Gifted Child?
Gifted kids whose academic needs aren’t appropriately addressed, may become frustrated, depressed, bored, have bad behavior and ultimately w
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CHRISTY GEORGE, LMFT, SEP
Licensed Marriage Family Therapist
11440 W. Bernardo Pl., Sutie 300, San Diego, CA 92127
Tel: 760-410-8186
Near Rancho Bernardo, 4S Ranch, Del Sur, Poway, Carmel Valley , Rancho Santa Fe and Del Mar, CA
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Christy A. George, LMFT, SEP
Jul 14, 20196 min read
Harness and Understand Emotional Intensity
If you are a gifted person, or the parent or spouse of a gifted person who is exceptionally sensitive, you understand how dramatic and diffi
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Christy A. George, LMFT, SEP
Jun 30, 20193 min read
10 Challenges You May Not Know Your Gifted Child is Facing
Understanding a child’s unique needs is important for all parents, and especially those of gifted children and teens. What would you do to
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Christy A. George, LMFT, SEP
Jun 24, 20199 min read
Set Effective Boundaries With Your Gifted Child or Teen
Healthy boundary setting is important for everyone, and can be challenging for anyone. Families of gifted children may face some additional
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Christy A. George, LMFT, SEP
Jun 16, 20194 min read
Living As a Pretender
When people of a low ability have “illusory superiority” and erroneously assess their cognitive ability to be greater than it actually is, i
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Christy A. George, LMFT
Jun 9, 20193 min read
10 Ways to Connect with Your Gifted Teen
It can be challenging to manage your gifted teen’s moodiness, demanding behavior, and heightened self awareness, while providing the validat
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Christy A. George, LMFT, SEP
May 31, 20196 min read
Great Summer Activities For Gifted Kids
Even if you don’t need daycare, you may worry your kids will be bored, forget what they learned in school, lose touch with friends or lose o
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Christy A. George, LMFT, SEP
May 5, 20195 min read
8 Tips to Help You Connect
Whether you are a lonely adult yearning for meaningful companionship, have lost connection with friends or partners, or if you are the paren
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Christy A. George, LMFT, SEP
Apr 21, 20193 min read
Gifted and Bullied
Being bullied is humiliating. It happens when people are purposely mean, and behaving in a way meant to harm and embarrass another person,
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Christy A. George, LMFT, SEP
Mar 24, 20193 min read
Maybe Laughter is The Best Medicine
Laughter can put things in perspective, serve as an anesthetic and actually helps us to heal. Having a sense of humor reminds us that even
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Christy A. George, LMFT, SEP
Feb 10, 20194 min read
Battle Stress With Compassion
It’s okay to acknowledge your child’s or your hardship if that is what you are experiencing, and then give yourself and them a break. It’s
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Christy A. George, LMFT, SEP
Dec 9, 20186 min read
Give Yourself the Gift of Enjoyment this Season
Gifted children, adults and their families may experience normal holiday stress, and more. If you are unusually intelligent or highly talen
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Christy A. George, LMFT, SEP
Sep 23, 20185 min read
Make Your Super Sensitivity Your Superpower
If you are an intelligent person, chances are you are very familiar with overexcitabilities, even if you didn't have a name for it befor
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Christy A. George, LMFT, SEP
Jun 3, 20184 min read
Bright, Introverted and Alone?
I’m not here to convince you to change who you are, or to suggest there is anything pathological about being introverted. In fact, I would l
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Christy A. George, LMFT, SEP
May 13, 20184 min read
Are You The Absent Minded Professor?
Executive functioning skills help us to plan, organize, stay on task, finish what we start, have impulse control and use good judgment. Peo
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Christy A. George, LMFT, SEP
Apr 29, 20184 min read
Are Gifted People More Intense?
Perhaps you have noticed you, your child or your spouse is more sensitive or intense than other people. I certainly have noticed this withi
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Christy A. George, LMFT, SEP
Apr 23, 20183 min read
Life Beyond Existential Depression
Highly gifted people are often able to recognize best possible outcomes others cannot see, and are often unwilling to consider. Sometimes,
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Christy A. George, LMFT, SEP
Apr 12, 20183 min read
Leave the Oasis. Real is Real
Like the Oasis, video games allow us to forget about the stress of our every day lives, create new identities, experience new and impossible
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Christy A. George, LMFT, SEP
Apr 8, 20184 min read
Help Your Child Find the Balance Between Comfort and Stress
Finding happiness, managing stress and connecting with other people is part of reaching one’s full potential. Achieving academic, monetary
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Christy A. George, LMFT, SEP
Mar 11, 20183 min read
Who Can Relate to "A Wrinkle In Time"?
Like many gifted children, Meg feels different, and believes she is stupid because she doesn’t fit in socially or academically. Meg is also
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