Margit Crane, The Gifted-Teen Coach™, is an acclaimed expert on teens, ‘tweens and their parents. Over the past 25 years, Margit has coached hundreds of families to achieve clearer communication, greater understanding, mutual respect, and a lot more FUN in their relationships. In her years as a teacher, school counselor, and community volunteer, she has offered seminars on such topics as self-esteem, body image, sexual orientation, multiple intelligences, transition to junior high, transition to college, the teen brain, parenting teens, addiction, and ADD/ADHD. She specializes in working with gifted kids with ADD/ADHD and their parents.

Her coaching technique employs a dynamic and compassionate exchange of ideas, fortified with optimism, creativity, and devotion to her clients. Additionally, clients benefit from Margit's expertise in Child Development, Family Relationships, and Learning Strategies. Artfully combined, these elements make for wonderfully rapid and powerful behavioral and attitudinal shifts for clients and for their families.

Margit has an M.A. in Spanish, an M.S. in School Counseling, and an M.Ed. in Education. She earned her Teaching Credential in English and Spanish and has taught and counseled educationally disadvantaged, special education, and gifted students… and everyone in between!

In 1996, her award-winning curriculum for teens, B'rakhot, was cited as a notable contribution to 300 years of Jewish education by the American Jewish Archives. In 2002, Margit won an award for “Inspiring High School Educator” from UC San Diego.

In her spare time (HA!) Margit loves to hang out with the love of her life (her husband, Nick), her two wonderful stepkids, and her friends.