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Mental Health

Mental Health at SENG

Mental health is an important dimension of development across the lifespan. It encompasses emotional, psychological, and social experiences and influences how people think, feel, connect with others, respond to challenges, and navigate daily life.

For gifted and twice-exceptional people, understanding mental health requires attention to the whole person, including strengths, needs, identities, lived experiences, relationships, and ways of engaging with the world. It also requires consideration of the environments and systems that shape development, including families, schools, workplaces, communities, and cultures.

SENG provides education, resources, programs, and connections to help gifted and twice-exceptional individuals, families, caregivers, and professionals better understand mental health and identify appropriate sources of support across the lifespan.

Mental Health Support Across the Lifespan

Mental health needs and sources of support may change across life stages, circumstances, relationships, and environments. SENG believes in empowering gifted and twice-exceptional individuals and families to identify support structures that are responsive to their needs and circumstances across their lifespan journey.

Support can take many forms. Clinical mental health care is one part of a broader ecosystem of professional, relational, educational, peer, and community support.

For decades, SENG has offered SENG Community Groups (SCGs) as a nonclinical, facilitated peer-support resource for gifted and twice-exceptional individuals and families. SCGs provide opportunities for participants to connect, share experiences, learn from one another, and build community. They are not a substitute for clinical mental health care.

Visit the SENG Community Groups page to learn more about nonclinical peer support.

As a complement to SENG’s longstanding nonclinical community-support offerings, the SENG Mental Health Provider Directory has a distinct purpose: helping gifted and twice-exceptional individuals and families identify professionals who provide clinical mental health services. Maintaining this distinction helps individuals and families better understand the type of support each SENG resource is designed to provide.

Programs & Events

SENG’s mental health programming evolves from year to year in response to the needs and interests of our community. Many programs are offered live only, reflecting our commitment to creating conditions for thoughtful, authentic conversations about experiences and topics that can be difficult to discuss openly elsewhere.

Through facilitated conversations, expert perspectives, and shared learning, these programs provide opportunities to explore mental health within the complexity of gifted and twice-exceptional lives.

2026-2027 Mental Health Program Highlights

Mental Health Event Page

Parent Perspectives: Complexity Between Giftedness, Mental Health & Mental Illness Interactions.

Past Mental Health Program Highlights

Discover the Inner World of Gifted Minds. Join us for the launch of SENG’s 2025-2026 Mental Health Signature Series: Psychiatric Conversations with Jerald Grobman, MD. This series is hosted by Drs. Michele Kane and Lin Lim. Starts monthly from November 2025 through June 2026.

Mental Health Provider Directory

Looking for a mental health provider?

SENG provides a Mental Health Provider Directory to help gifted and twice-exceptional individuals, families, and caregivers identify professionals who provide clinical mental health services and have expressed an interest in supporting gifted and 2e populations.

The directory is specifically focused on clinical mental health services, including clinical support and assessment within each professional’s scope of practice. Coaching, educational therapy, educational consulting, college coaching, and other nonclinical consultation and support services are not currently included in this directory.

Provider information is voluntarily submitted. Inclusion in the directory does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, verification, or credentialing by SENG. Individuals and families are encouraged to independently verify a provider’s qualifications, licensure, areas of specialization, and appropriateness for their needs.

The Mental Health Provider Directory is updated annually in September.

Crisis & Suicide Prevention Resources

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If you or someone you care about is experiencing a mental health crisis or thoughts of suicide, support is available. The following resources can help connect individuals and families with crisis and suicide-prevention services in the United States and internationally.

United States: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Call or text 988, or connect through online chat for free, confidential crisis support available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Spanish 988

International: International Association for Suicide Prevention

IASP Crisis Centres & Helplines / Find A Helpline
Find verified crisis and emotional-support helplines in more than 150 countries, with options for phone, text, online chat, and other forms of support.

United Kingdom & Ireland: Samaritans
Call 116 123 free, day or night, for confidential emotional support.

Australia: Lifeline Australia
Call 13 11 14, text 0477 13 11 14, or use online chat for 24/7 crisis support.

Crisis Text Line
Free, confidential text-based crisis support is available 24/7 in several countries, including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Ireland.

If there is an immediate life-threatening emergency, contact the appropriate emergency service in your location.

SENG Resources for Gifted & 2e People

Types of Mental Health Professionals
Psychopharmacological interventions for the Gifted - Psychiatric Lens
What We Wish We Knew - Parents' View
DSM vs ICD

Mental Health Information and Resources

Explore national and international organizations offering research, education, public-health information, and resources related to mental health.

World Health Organization (WHO): Mental Health
Global mental health information, research, policy resources, and country-level data.

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): 
Research-based information about mental health conditions, treatments, statistics, clinical research, and finding help.

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): Warning Signs & Symptoms

Mental Health America (MHA)
Mental health education, screening tools, and resources for individuals and families.

American Psychiatric  Association: DSM

American Psychological Association: DSM Vs ICD

United Nations. World Youth Mental Health Report. 

Mental Health Providers

Interested in Joining the Mental Health Provider Directory?

Are you a licensed or otherwise authorized clinical mental health professional interested in being included in the SENG Mental Health Provider Directory?

Eligible SENG Champion Members may submit an application for consideration during our annual application period, May 1 through May 31. Log in to your membership account to access the application. If you are not currently a Champion Member, you may upgrade your membership to apply.

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