Individual counselling
Counselling on giftedness, potential and personal development
For 13 years I have worked with people of high potential: sensitive, perceptive, intuitive and creative gifted children, teenagers and adults.
I have created an approach that matches their difference and meets their needs. I focus on personal development: supporting the gifted person's self-knowledge and self-acceptance, improving their self-concept and self-confidence, identifying their high potential, and working with the high sensitivity that comes with giftedness.
The result of our work together is a sensitive gifted person who is in harmony with themselves: they know their true self and accept themselves as they are, respect their own needs, and find advantages and opportunities in their difference. They know how to work with their sensitivity and their racing thoughts, know their potential and values, and move toward personal and professional fulfilment.
My work with gifted children, teenagers and adults draws on ACT, acceptance and commitment therapy, on many years of personal and professional experience with giftedness and gifted individuals, and usually also on mindfulness. I build strongly on the client's values and potential, and together we search for their sense of meaning in life and their possibilities for self-realization.
How counselling works
Counselling takes the form either of individual consultations, or of group ACT courses or the Path to Inner Calm seminar. For adult gifted clients I also organize informal gatherings. I connect gifted children with each other so they can find close friends.
Individual consultations take a comprehensive approach. The client receives a detailed analysis of the problem and its causes, as well as a proposal of concrete steps toward overall improvement. What I offer is not just advice but also training in the skills that lead to results. I pass on techniques, tips and exercises from ACT therapy in a practical, hands-on way.
For parents of gifted children, I explain what their child's potential is, and what they need in their personal life and in education to be content, at peace with themselves and developing well.
Feedback on books, consultations, courses and gatherings for gifted people
I read your books and watched your videos. I have a gifted son, and your work helped us enormously to understand ourselves.
I read your book Život s vysokou inteligencí with great interest, and although we don't yet know each other, it is really about me. I am no longer afraid to step outside my comfort zone, and I am developing my potential as much as I can. I wanted to thank you for that.
Hello Mrs. Stehlíková, you are wonderful, you wrote a book that describes me literally, word for word.
I was very struck by the way you talk about high intelligence, about the real problems that come with it, but also about the beauty and enormous potential, which can nevertheless be difficult to grasp correctly.
The last online gathering gave me a great deal and left me with truly strong feelings. You are one of the few people with whom I feel truly understood. And I am so grateful to you for that.
Thank you so much for your wonderful work with my son, he was absolutely glowing all weekend. We look forward to working with you again.
You have been on my mind these past few days. So I am writing to you. You have taught me a lot, and I thank you for that. What helps me most is the feeling that I am not alone. Thank you for coming into my life.
Thank you so much for the consultation, I am so glad that at last a professional actually understood my daughter.
I would like to arrange another consultation for my daughter with you, so she feels understood and it brings her at least a little hope and encouragement.
Thank you for today's consultation. I am taking away things to reflect on for myself.
Thank you so much for the feedback. It is actually wonderful to hear praise for my child, because we don't get that from school. There is no way to arrive at all this in the daily routine!
I really appreciate your support, yesterday it truly brought me relief and we had a really lovely time together at home.
I wanted to thank you again so much for your seminar. It was very important to me, and honestly I can't imagine the following Tuesday without it. I am so glad I got to know you.
Thank you again for a very inspiring meeting at your seminar, I am really looking forward to the next one.
Monika, I am so grateful to you. Thanks to you I am more myself. I am happier and more free inside, more grounded in the present moment, and somehow more solid in my own body.
The gathering for gifted people was a pleasant and meaningful evening for me. Thank you for that.
It was a truly beautiful experience. My friend, who is also gifted, and I like to say that talking to someone who feels the same way is like driving down the highway in a Lamborghini. This gathering was that feeling intensified, something I hadn't experienced before. I would love to take part in another gathering!
Thank you so much for yesterday's gathering. It was lovely and went really well again, I am glad for those who got to experience this group for the first time. At these gatherings, I feel like the world is actually all right. For a while.
If I had to sum up the gathering in a few words, it would be calm, and acceptance of the whirlwind of thoughts I usually have in my head, a feeling of freedom from letting go of some block I was carrying inside me, and acceptance of myself and of what is happening within me. I don't want to hold myself back in anything anymore!
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