1. Please listen to the episode carefully before you take the quiz and do the course evaluation.

    2. Quiz: Training Therapists in the Age of AI: Preventing Deskilling and Teaching Clinical Judgment

    3. Evaluation: "Training Therapists in the Age of AI: Preventing Deskilling and Teaching Clinical Judgment" Curt Widhalm, LMFT and Katie Vernoy, LMFT
  • $9.00

Course Description

In this continuing education episode, we discuss how gifted adults show up in psychotherapy, with an emphasis on clinical assessment, internal experience, common presenting problems, and treatment implications. This course distinguishes intellectual giftedness from high achievement or eminence, explores how twice-exceptional presentations and marginalized identities can complicate identification, and highlights common concerns such as burnout, perfectionism, existential distress, identity disruption, relationship strain, and chronic overfunctioning. The conversation also examines the hidden cost of success, including masking, code-switching, self-editing, executive functioning workarounds, and the distress that can arise when cognitive abilities change due to stress, illness, parenting, grief, or aging. Clinically, the episode emphasizes attunement, depth, sustainability, values alignment, self-compassion, and helping gifted clients define success in ways that fit their lives rather than defaulting to external expectations.

Learning Objectives: By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify at least four common presenting concerns in gifted adults.

  2. Distinguish intellectual giftedness from high achievement or eminence, and identify at least two ways twice-exceptional presentations can obscure assessment in adults.

  3. Compare at least three internal or relational experiences of gifted adults.

  4. Select at least three treatment considerations for gifted adults, including assessing hidden costs of functioning, differentiating adaptive from maladaptive perfectionism, supporting accommodations and sustainability, and using attuned, intellectually respectful therapeutic relationships.

Instructors

Katie Vernoy

LMFT

Katie Vernoy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, with a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from California State University, Fullerton and a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and Theater from Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. Katie’s experience spans many leadership and management roles in the mental health field since getting her license in 2005: program coordinator, director, clinical supervisor, hiring manager, recruiter, and former President of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. Learn more at: www.katievernoy.com

Curt Widhalm

LMFT

Curt Widhalm is in private practice in the Los Angeles area. He is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) ethics committee, an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University, lecturer in Counseling Laws and Ethics at California State University Northridge, a former Law & Ethics Subject Matter Expert for the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, and former CFO of CAMFT. Learn more at: www.curtwidhalm.com

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Continuing Education Information

CAMFT CEPA

Therapy Reimagined is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LPCCs, LCSWs, and LEPs (CAMFT CEPA provider #132270). Therapy Reimagined maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Courses meet the qualifications for the listed hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. We are working on additional provider approvals, but solely are able to provide CAMFT CEs at this time. Please check with your licensing body to ensure that they will accept this as an equivalent.