Assessment | Coaching | Consultation | Counseling
Helping Children, Teens, Adults, and Families Realize Their Potential
Summit Center can provide the answers to your questions. We offer psychological and educational services for children, adolescents, adults, and families, including assessments, coaching, consultation, and counseling.
Our team of psychologists, consultants, and educators use a collaborative, strengths-based approach to work with our clients. Our goal is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the individual and provide a roadmap for making personal, parenting, school, and life decisions. Better understanding the “why” of a person’s behavior can provide relief to parents, teachers, and the individual, and is often the first key step toward maximizing potential.
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Assessments
Summit Center offers various evaluations, also known as assessments. These may be narrow in scope (i.e., IQ testing) or comprehensive, assessing a child’s multiple levels of functioning (i.e., intellectual, academic, neuropsychological, social, emotional, and behavioral). Each evaluation is tailored based on the goals and questions to be answered.
Counseling
The Summit Center offers individual, family, and group counseling (also known as psychotherapy) utilizing a strength-based approach to problem-solving and optimizing growth potential through a developmental lens. Our counseling services can help clients address a wide variety of issues.
Coaching & Consultation
We provide consultation on a variety of issues such as parenting, giftedness, twice-exceptionality (2e), finding the right school fit, health and wellness, and more. We also provide coaching services for life and career, ADHD, spiritual sensitivity and awareness, and executive functioning.
Educational Therapy
Our trained professionals combine educational and therapeutic approaches to assist students whose learning challenges at school are not resolving. Some issues that we address include dyslexia, dyscalculia, test-taking difficulties, and problems with organization and managing time. Educational therapy is not the same as tutoring. Our work is remedial, designed to fill gaps in background, understanding, and learning strategies in order to develop independent learners.
Parent Education
Summit Center offers workshops, classes, webinars, and discussion groups for parents, led by one of our experienced professionals. Groups for parents or gifted adults allow participants to share concerns and gain support from others who have similar experiences.
Are you or your child having trouble at school, home, at work, or with peers?
We offer psychological & educational services for children, adolescents, adults
Our Expertise
Summit Center’s team of professionals offers a wide array of expertise to help children, teens, adults, or families deal with these issues:
- ADD/ADHD
- Anxiety
- Asynchronous development
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Dyslexia
- Executive-functioning issues
- Giftedness
- Learning and attention issues
- Perfectionism
- Sadness and depression
- Stress
- Twice-exceptional (2e)
- and more
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PODCAST
Make It A Great One with Dr. Dan
Dr. Dan Peters invites you to discover your purpose, explore new possibilities, and live in alignment with your authentic self. Each episode features inspiring interviews with thought leaders and experts designed to ignite hope, deepen self-awareness, and provide actionable guidance and wisdom to empower you to become a better version of yourself and make a positive impact on the world around you. Listen and subscribe on your favorite platform, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, or the show page.
Upcoming Events
27
February
Executive Functioning Support Course: Raising an Organized Kid, with Deanna Kim, M.Ed.
Fridays, Feb. 27-March 27 (5 weeks)
Virtual
Event Info
Do you feel overwhelmed by your family’s ever-growing list of after school activities? Are you up late at night helping your child finish a project that’s due tomorrow? While many of us with children struggle with planning, organization, and time management, developing a family system can be the key to overcoming these challenges.
This 5-week course with instructor Deanna Kim, M.Ed. will offer parents the unique opportunity to work with our staff to develop their own family system, and learn more about executive functioning and how it impacts our day-to-day lives.
Sessions will focus on planning through the use of a family calendar, time management, routines, sustaining attention, how to work through the homework frustrations, and emotional regulation. Each participant will leave with the tools they need to help their family get back on track and more organized.
Space is limited, and pre-registration is required, so please register early. Early bird rate of $350 ends Feb. 6.
28
February
California Association for the Gifted Annual Conference
UC Santa Barbara
In Person
Event Info
The largest event focused on gifted education for educators in California! The CAG Annual Conference will provide sessions from national experts on how to apply research-based strategies in your classroom and at your school site to develop the potential for diverse advanced and gifted students.
February 27 (Pre-conference)
February 28 – March 1, 2026 (Conference)
8
March
Reel 2e K-12 Strengths Fair
Los Altos, CA
In Person
Event Info
Our friends at Reel2e present a one-of-a-kind event: created for families of neurodivergent and twice-exceptional (2e) students to explore organizations, schools, and clinicians committed to empowering kids through a strength-based approach. Stop asking “What’s wrong?” and start asking “What’s strong!”
Event Details
Date & Time: March 8, 2026, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Los Altos Community Center
Keynote Speaker: Hear from 2e expert and award-winning author Amanda Morin (12-1pm) on “Speaking Their Language: How Strengths-Based Communication Builds Trust, Confidence, and Connection.”
40+ Exhibitors: Connect with schools, enrichment programs, and experts offering actionable, strengths-based resources.
Hands-On Fun: Kids can enjoy experience stations where they can tinker, draw, build, and share what lights them up.
Inspiring Sessions: Attend talks like “Mochi Dude, Body Dude & Hot Cocoa Dude: How Silly Characters Can Reframe Essay Writing” and “Raising Future-Ready Kids: Timeless Skills In An AI World.”
Community: Personal connections and honest conversations with like-minded families.
In Crisis?
For a behavioral or mental health crisis, call or text 988 or chat on 988lifeline.org
National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 800-273-8255
Trevor Project Lifeline (LGBTQ youth): 866-488-7386 or text START to 678-678