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Licensure, Certifications and Education

Currently completing Specialization training in Acquire Brain Injury Cognition and Caregiving from the nationally recognized Coastline Acquired Brain Injury Program

Certified Learning Disability Remediation Specialist through Edu-Therapeutics

Licensed in Educational Kinesiology through the Educational Kinesiology Foundation

Nationally Certified Mental Health Service Provider in Sports Counseling through the National Institute of Sports Professionals, Division of Sports Psychologists

Member of the National Register of Sports Counselors, and Register of Educational Kinesiology Instructors

Nationally Certified, Provisional Lifestyle Counselor through the American Association of Lifestyle Counselors

Certified facilitator of SENG-Model Support Groups for parents of gifted children to address the emotional and social needs of their children, and the parenting issues related to those needs

Nationally Certified Track and Field Coach through USA Track and Field

Master of Science, Organization Development, with a specialization in Applied Behavioral Science. Applied Behavioral Science focuses on enhancing the performance of individuals, teams and organizations within different social and performance environments. Graduated from American University and the NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Science with the program’s highest academic designation of Distinction.

Faculty Member

Faculty member teaching Organizational Behavior in the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond (Top 25 ranked business school in the United States)

Practicum Advisor for Masters students in Organizational Development at American University and the NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Science (Top 10 internationally ranked organization development masters program)

Author and Magazine Columnist

The Talented Child Workbook: A Parent’s Guide To Nurturing Talent

The Talented Athlete Workbook: A Mental Skills Playbook

The Athlete's Goal Planning Kit

Brains In The Family Blog

Columnist, Transforming Your Enterprise Magazine, about Performance Psychology issues in corporate settings

Parenting Children's Talents newsletter

Athletic Performance

Silver medalist in 800-meters at the AAU National Track and Field Championships

Top-ten finisher at the AAU National Cross-Country Championships

Member of teams that won NCAA conference championships and the AAU national high school cross-country championship

Member of four-mile and distance-medley relay teams that set national and state age-group records

New Jersey All-State cross-country runner

A Talented Mind: Enhancing Talents, Learning, and Health

A Talented Mind helps children, adolescents and adults reach their full potential by providing assessments, counseling and specialized kinesiology services to address the following needs:

Cognitive Abilities: Improve cognitive abilities to enhance learning and recovery from a brain injury

ADHD: Strengthen the underlying mental processes that impact attention deficit

Sports Performance: Improve mental performance in sports, and enhance exercise motivation

Stress Management for Health: Develop your ability to manage the stress that impacts your health and illness recovery

The principal of A Talented Mind, Michael Cerreto, started his career helping adults rediscover talents they abandoned earlier in their lives. By refocusing on their natural mental talents, these adults made significant strides as scientists, educators, psychologists, writers, architects, lawyers, doctors, artists, athletes, and students.

A Talented Mind was created to support people from childhood through adulthood to develop their talents, improve ADHD, rehabilitate from brain injuries, and perform under pressure in sports. We do not provide clinical psychology counseling. If in the course of our work we identify a possible clinical issue that needs to be addressed, we refer the client to a licensed professional counselor, medical doctor, or other clinical specialist..