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High Potential: from assessment to appropriate support
Understanding your High Potential can be a pivotal discovery. Support can then help you make practical room for your strengths, needs and aspirations.
Start with your experience
High Potential does not necessarily involve distress. When feeling different, self-criticism or relationship difficulties become burdensome, they deserve to be understood in the context of your history. Support starts with what you want to change and what matters to you.
Recognise different strengths
Cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence and creative intelligence illuminate different aspects of functioning. Identifying HIP, HEP or HCP can help people recognise abilities that have been overlooked or misunderstood. This discovery can clarify their history and support plans that better reflect who they are.
Assessment: finding language and clarity
Cognitive assessment explores HIP among other questions. Emotional and personality assessment combines interviews, tests and diagnostic evaluation to understand emotional strengths, personality and possible difficulties. Creative intelligence may also be explored according to the tools selected and the assessment question. The findings provide a basis for the next steps.
Therapy: turning understanding into change
Expressing needs, setting boundaries, easing perfectionism or changing unsatisfying relationships may require sustained work. Appropriate therapy takes account of your strengths and pace while addressing current difficulties. High Potential informs that understanding without automatically explaining everything you experience.
For children and parents
Support can help a child understand emotions, rebuild confidence or feel more comfortable in relationships. Working with parents and the school helps clarify expectations, learning needs and helpful adjustments. The aim is development and well-being, without expecting excellence in every area.
Find the right support
Meaningful relationships, rewarding activities and contact with people who share similar experiences can complement therapy. The service described here focuses on assessment and guidance; availability for ongoing therapy needs to be checked separately. Assessment can help clarify what kind of support to seek.
Which assessment would help?
A first exchange can clarify your questions and identify the most relevant assessment. For a child, we consider their experience alongside the family’s concerns.