If you would like to understand more about your child's learning profile, how to gain coping skills for your child, or how to help your child reach their full potential, contact us online about making an appointment.
New Life & Career Coaching Services with Michelle Mortara
Do you ever get frustrated and feel like things aren’t happening quickly enough for you? Do you ever feel overwhelmed, and don’t know where to start? Do you want guidance for moving forward with work, relationships, or long-term goals?
Michelle Mortara provides life coaching and career coaching services to Summit Center clients. Clients find Michelle easy to talk to and a great listener. During her coaching sessions, she strives to create an open and trusting relationship to help her clients seek clarity, set priorities, feel empowered to work through challenges, and create a more fulfilled life. Learn more about Life and Career Coaching here
Michelle Mortara is a Certified Life and Career Coach. Before joining Summit Center, Michelle had a successful 20-year career in marketing and operational management roles. She has coached individuals and teams, and trained other managers to become coaches.
If you would like to speak with Michelle to see if she might be a good fit for you and/or your young adult child, please contact our office by completing this short form.
Parent Footprint with Dr. Dan: Podcasts on Postpartum Care, Vulnerable Minds, Loving & Leaving Alcohol, Nurturing Boys
Dr. Dan spoke with three new guests in the last month: neurobiologist and former professor Marc Hauser, author and TV personality Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, pediatrician Dr. Shelly Vaziri Flais, and journalist Robin Hilmantel. One new bonus episode was also posted, discussing answers to listener questions.
Vulnerable Minds with Marc Hauser
Dr. Dan interviewsMarc Hauser, PhD, a neurobiologist, educator, and former professor of evolutionary biology and psychology at Harvard University aboutRisk Eraser, the program he founded in 2013 to help at-risk kids lead healthier lives. Risk-Eraser helps schools transform the learning and decision-making of children with disabilities by providing evidence-based strategies and tools derived from the mind and brain sciences.
In this episode, Stefanie recounts the rise and fall of her relationship with alcohol, from liquor cabinet concoctions at age 14 to her online fame as a wine-loving mommy blogger to the disastrous evening when she drove drunk with her kids in the car that marked the end. Stefanie discusses her story, her parenting, her recovery and more with Dr. Dan. Stefanie shares openly, with the message that struggling with addiction does not mean you are deficient, bad, or alone.
Listener Questions About Pink Hair, Instagram Opposites, Sittervising, and More
Welcome to the February Sitting Down With Dr. Dan bonus episode. Dr. Dan and podcast audio engineer Phil Rossi discuss pink hair, Instagram opposites, internet addiction, anxiety in families and Sittervising (read the article ‘‘Sittervising’ is the latest parenting trend because it’s freaking genius”). Each month Dr. Dan answers listener questions about parenting (and adulting, too!) on our Sitting Down with Dr. Dan bonus episodes. Please email your parenting questions to podcast@drdanpeters.com or DM us on social media. We read every question and we will consider yours for a future bonus episode.
Nurturing Boys to Be Better Men with Shelly Vaziri Flais, MD, FAAP
Dr. Dan and pediatrician (and mother of four)Dr. Shelly Vaziri Flais discuss the tools parents need to start the lifelong process of raising their boys into men who are mentally healthy, empathetic, and committed to gender equality. Dr. Flais explains concrete techniques for parents to push back against cultural stereotypes and toxic masculinity as they nurture their sons. Because “kids do as they see,” the work of being role models for gender equality starts in the home. The conversation emphasizes the benefits of gender equality for boys and girls and men and women, and discusses it not only in the context of the family, but also the extended family, school, and greater community. The interview is inspired by Shelly’s bookAmerican Academy of Pediatrics’ Nurturing Boys to Be Better Men: Gender Equality Starts at Home.
Listen and subscribe on your favorite podcast platform, or on our web site.
New! Webinar with Dr. Dan Peters: Parenting with Purpose 4/17
Summit Center is proud to present the first in a series of webinars from our team of professionals, speaking on topics important to our families.
Dr. Dan Peters, Co-Founder and Executive Director, will speak on “Parenting with Awareness, Purpose, and Intention” on Wednesday, April 17, at 12 pm PDT.
About the topic: Parenting is hard. We are bombarded continually with messages that create fear and worry about our children’s future. Will they be able to take care of themselves? Will they make the team? Will they get into a good college? Will they be successful? We all want the best for our children and spend considerable time and resources to meet this goal. This talk will address the importance of a parent’s awareness about themselves as key to raising healthy, engaged, and happy children. By being engaged in one’s own life, being clear about where you came from, and being aware of what you want to pass on to your children, you can parent with purpose. Come learn how to use your own increased awareness to help your kids reach their potential.
FREE. Webinar recordings will be available after the event for a fee.
Mar.13: Understanding Your 2e Teen with Dr. Lisa White
Dr. Lisa White will speak at Orinda Academy on Extraordinary Gifts, Unexpected Challenges: Understanding Your Twice-Exceptional (2e) Teen TOMORROW, Wednesday, March 13 at 7 pm via Zoom. Free.
Dr. White will discuss what it means to be a twice-exceptional child, and how we can identify and best parent our 2e kids. Free.
March 12-18: Stop Boys Aggression Workshop with Tosha Schore
Tosha Schore, founder of Parenting Boys Peacefully, is offering a FREE workshop for parents of boys called Out With Aggression!
Do you consistently find yourself dealing with hitting, biting, yelling, kicking, swearing, pushing, throwing or tantrums from your son?
Are you regularly trying to bribe or barter with your boy? Are you sending him on time-outs? Taking away screen time? Threatening a menu of consequences? Have you attempted to just use reason, or maybe try to distract him into good behavior?
If none of that is working for you, you’re not alone. Register for Tosha's workshop and you’ll get access to 3 value-packed videos plus 3 coaching calls.
The free workshop begins TODAY, March 12, and continues through Monday, March 18. Sign up anytime this week! Tosha also offers a 6-week course for a fee.
“If we can give kids tools at younger ages to better express themselves, and have ways to cope if they are rejected or don’t get what they want, and how connect with others… I would love a world in which my sons have a strong friend group, have the ability…to share those tough experiences with male friends. To have those connections that really make us bullet-proof for mental health purposes.”
