Annette is the school counselor. With a deep understanding of the social and emotional issues common among gifted people, she helps students and faculty when communication or relationship difficulties interfere with a student's education. She works with the students in their classrooms to strengthen their social and emotional development and to help them learn effective communication skills, assertiveness and appropriate ways to express feelings. Annette also runs a group for children from divorced families, facilitates the adolescent gifted girls' group and three parent support groups. Having written several articles for journals and newsletters in the field of giftedness, Annette has spoken at numerous national and local conferences about the social and emotional issues faced by gifted families and gifted girls. She has been affiliated with the Gifted Development Center since 1996 and is training with Annemarie Roeper to learn the Annemarie Roeper Method of Qualitative Assessment of Giftedness model of assessing children's development. Annette earned her M.A. in Clinical Psychology (with an emphasis in marriage and family counseling) from Pepperdine University.