Christine Turo-Shields
Life & Gifted Coach
Christine Turo-Shields, LCSW, LCAC is an EMDR certified therapist and has a personal and professional passion of working in the world of the gifted. . . raising both a gifted and a profoundly gifted child, she has also worked with a plethora of gifted children, teen, and adults, and she currently facilitates gifted women’s groups. She knows the blessings and burdens of the minds of our brightest! Many gifted individuals struggle with emotional angst, relationships, academic achievement, perfectionism and personal fulfillment, compounded for those with twice-exceptionalities (2e). With specialty in the GT/HA world, she consults with school districts on case consultations regarding gifted students as well as conducts and coordinates trainings and presentations for educators and parents on various topics such as on anxiety, over-exciteabilities, trauma/posttraumatic growth, etc. She coaches gifted parents, introducing them resources which will aid in navigating their children’s world emotionally, socially and behaviorally.
Christine has been an integral part in the development of the Gifted Family Program for Central Indiana Mensa – a program so successful that it won the American Mensa Gifted Children Program Award for 2010. Her article, "The Rocket Science of Raising Gifted Kids" has been published in the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) newsletter, and she has been a presenter at the NAGC and SENG national conferences, most notably on trauma healing and anxiety management among gifted individuals. She has co-facilitated SENG 2e online parent groups, and is proud to have been named as SENG State Liaison for Indiana. Additionally, she has served as a member of the Behavior Team with PGR (Profoundly Gifted Retreat) as well as a webinar facilitator for the Davidson Institute.