Paula Prober, M.S, M.Ed.

Understanding Your Rainforest Mind-- Guidance for Gifted Adults

Using examples from her counseling/consulting practice and her books, Paula will detail the complexities of adult giftedness and provide strategies and resources to help these adults understand themselves and their rainforest minds, build healthy relationships, find self-acceptance and life balance, and finally decide what color to paint the bedroom!

Paula Prober, M.S., M.Ed. is a psychotherapist, consultant, blogger, and author in private practice based in Eugene, Oregon, USA. For the past 30 years her clients have been intellectually and creatively gifted adults and parents of gifted children. Along with counseling in Oregon, she consults internationally with these individuals. Paula has been a teacher of gifted children and presenter at universities, webinars, podcasts, and conferences. 

She has written articles on giftedness for Psychotherapy Networker, Advanced Development Journal, the Eugene Register-Guard and online for Thrive Global, Rebelle Society, psychotherapy.net, Highly Sensitive Refuge, and Introvert Dear. She has written three books: Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Adults and Youth is an in-depth look at giftedness through case studies of her counseling clients. 

Journey into Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide for Gifted Adults and Teens, Book Lovers, Overthinkers, Geeks, Sensitives, Brainiacs, Intuitives, Procrastinators, and Perfectionists is a collection of her most popular blog posts from the first four years of the blog. 

Her third book, Saving Your Rainforest Mind: A Guided Journal for the Curious, Creative, Smart, & Sensitive is a journal specifically for gifted adults and older teens including prompts, information, and inspiration addressing sensitivity, empathy, loneliness, multipotentiality, perfectionism, and much more. 

She blogs at www.rainforestmind.com and is on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/paulaprober/