Gifted Minds
Counseling
Meet
JADE SKIDMORE
licENCED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR
Therapeutic Approach
Jade is a passionate and creative therapist who you can get real with. She has spent over ten years working with children, adolescents, young adults, professionals, and parents both in the private practice setting and in public education as a Professional School Counselor. She enjoys helping clients understand more about themselves and find everyday joy in who they are.
Jade is dedicated to learning about the unique needs of Gifted and Talented individuals along with their unique and intricate social and emotional landscape and development. She is currently a Ph.D. student at University of North Texas studying Educational Psychology with a concentration in gifted and talented education.
Jade offers a warm, empathic and open space for clients to gain insight, tools and support in growing, healing and transforming relationships.
My Kind of Work
- Giftedness: Exploring the wide, wide world of the gifted label and the overlooked social and emotional challenges of the Gifted & Talented population
- Strategy Sessions for Parents, Caregivers, & Individuals: Diving in and digging into specific wants and needs through short term sessions that focus on deliberate goal setting, next steps for action and change, psycho-education, and follow-up support
- Parent Coaching: Learning about yourself, growing as a parent & individual, and taking steps to build and live the kind of life & relationship you want to have with your family
- ADD/ADHD: Teaming up for support, strategies, and knowledge on all things ADHD
Gifted Minds
Counseling
children
teens
- Are Gifted & Talented
- ADHD
- Don't always fit in and have a hard times with friendships
- Have been through major life transitions
- Have trouble staying focused
- Need a supportive relationship with a grown-up outside of family
- Deal with depression, anxiety, or just have a hard time managing their big emptions
- Struggle to fit in and make or keep healthy relationships
- Don't always get along with their family
- Have a hard time feeling good about themselves
- Might not want to talk to their parents much, but really need to talk to someone
- Feel overwhelmed, stressed out and burdened by the balance between school, family, and friends
- Are hard on themselves or others and struggle with perfectionism
- Just want someone to talk to without judgement
I work with children who...
I work with teens who...
SERVICES
College Students & Young Adults
adults
parents
I work with college students & young adults who...
- Are struggling with this phase of life & all the challenges it brings
- Managing anxiety, depression, ADHD and other mental health diagnoses that impact school, work, life & relationships
- Struggle with perfectionism
I work with adults who...
- Struggle in their career and life despite their giftedness and exceptionalities
- Want to learn more about themselves and their relationships
- Struggle with major transitions in life like marriage and career changes
I work with parents who...
- Are dealing with the joys and challenges of parenting (a) gifted/talented child(ren).
- Want to learn more about giftedness and how it impacts their life or the life of their child(ren)
- Worry about their child's social & emotional well-being
- Want more tools for helping their child
- Need a judgement-free space to get real about parenting in this day & age
Gifted Minds
Counseling
SPECIALTIES
ADHD
ADHD & executive functioning impairment show up in kids, teens and adults. This can look like difficulty starting, staying on or completing tasks. It might feel like zoning out, or a whirlwind of ideas, or the sensation of needing to get up & go when the world around you is telling you to stay still. Therapy for ADHD can include scaffolding, skill-building, and strategizing. It can also include a lot of self-compassion for the ways neurodiverse people are asked to fit into a world that isn’t always designed to support your unique gifts.
ANXIETY
When your worries become overwhelming, I can help. Anxiety can be experienced in waves, or it can be chronic & debilitating. It might show up during a specific crisis, or it might be with you all of the time. Therapy can help you get out of your head and into your healing.
depession
Perhaps you’ve felt sad, overwhelmed or numb. Sometimes it gets heavier to bear the load. You may have been diagnosed with depression, or you may just suspect that what you’re feeling is too much to manage alone. By using mindful self-compassion and relational neuroscience, therapy can help you find connection, safety, meaning & have the support you need to navigate life with depression.
giftedness
overfunctioning
I work with children, teens and adults who are gifted and twice-exceptional (2E), and who struggle with some of the ways that identity can impact sense of self, school & work, and relationships.
Overfunctioning might look like perfectionism, never feeling good enough, always needing to do more or achieve more to feel worthy. Overfunctioning is an adaptive strategy to managing feeling out of control, to having learned as a child that you had to do it all on your own, and to coping with anxiety. The downside is that overfunctioning can also lead to burnout, conflict or resentment in relationships, and being way to hard on yourself and others. Therapy can help you keep the parts of this identity that serve you, while disentangling the parts that you no longer benefit from.
self-compassion
I work with clients to practice mindful self-compassion, which supports emotional wellbeing, healthy relationships, managing anxiety & depression, and a more solid sense of self-worth.
Gifted Minds
Counseling
licENCED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR
NEW CLIENTS
Step 1: Schedule an appointment
Step 2: Once you have scheduled an appointment you will receive a welcome email with all the details you will need to know before the first session.
tHERAPTIST RATES
(45-minute sessions are standard unless otherwise arranged in advance)
$220/60-minute session
$170/45-minute session
$130/30-minute session
insurance & CANCELLATIONS:
Gifted Minds Counseling is a private pay practice and is not considered in network with any insurance providers. This means that we are “Out of Network (OON)” and you will pay at the time of service. Gifted Minds Counseling can offer you a monthly statement that you may provide to your insurance company for possible out of network reimbursement, which requires a mental health diagnosis that your therapist will discuss with you. You need to contact your insurer to ensure benefits and coverage.
Cancellations must be made with 24 hours advanced notice of the appointment time. You will be charged the full session fee if you do not show up to your appointment or if you cancel with less than 24 hours notice. Clients who are more than 15 minutes late to their appointment may not be able to be seen and will be charged the full session fee.
SCHEDULE HERE!
NEW CLIENT?
Gifted Minds
Counseling
If you are a new or returning client, please use our online scheduler to set up an initial appointment. Current clients please schedule directly with THE therapist.