CGCC welcomes Jessica Brown McBroom, owner of Gifted Key Counseling, to explore and share her expertise on how to understand and utilize parenting techniques to develop your child's skills.  

We will talk about what executive functioning is, what role it plays in your child’s development and how to provide an environment that challenges your children and helps them develop independence.

Jessica Brown McBroom's Bio

Jessica Brown-McBroom is a licensed clinical professional counselor who is passionate about providing quality individual and family coaching for children, adolescents, and adults using a positive strength-based approach. Jessica embraces laughter and lightheartedness as an essential part of her work with children and families.  She specializes in twice-exceptional children and adolescents with executive functioning deficits.  This includes AD/HD children, children on the spectrum and children with learning disorders.  Diagnosed with AD/HD as a child, Jessica carries her own personal story of struggle and success in both her educational presentations and in her coaching, providing encouragement for families in the midst of their own struggles with executive functioning deficits.

Jessica provides in-home and online coaching sessions offering hands-on interventions focused on improving an individual’s executive functioning skills.  She focuses on utilizing existing environmental supports while adapting new strategies to better structure an individual’s environment for success.  Using creative and research-based techniques, Jessica also assists individuals with further developing the brain’s ability to perform executive functioning independently of external supports.  Jessica’s approach is to identify and use an individual’s giftedness and assist them in flourishing in  current and future environments.

Jessica received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. She returned three years later to obtain her master’s degree in clinical psychology. Jessica has over 14 years of experience practicing as a clinical therapist.  She is also certified in anger management for adults and is experienced working with emotional regulation issues in twice-exceptional children and teens.  Jessica believes strongly in utilizing supports already present in the community and she is experienced at working together with schools and other health care professionals to assist children and families.