About Me

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:

Natural Abilities: Discover and develop natural mental abilities

Early Learning Readiness: Develop the perceptual motor abilities needed for young children to learn

ADHD: Strengthen the underlying mental processes that impact attention deficit

Sports & Exercise 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

A Talented Mind was created to support people from childhood through adulthood to develop their talents, improve ADHD, perform under pressure in sports, and manage stress for health and illness recovery.

About Michael Cerreto, MS, CSC, Edu-K, CLC

Michael Cerreto is an Applied Performance Counselor. He works with children, adolescents, and adults to help them fully develop natural abilities, improve ADHD, perform mentally in sports, and manage stress for health and illness recovery.

Licensure, Certifications and Education:

Licensed Educational Kinesiology Instructor 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, Register of Educational Kinesiology Instructors, and Register of Lifestyle Counselors

Nationally Certification Lifestyle Counselor through the American Association of Lifestyle Counselors with a specialization in stress management

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 specialization 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.

Completing National Certification in Educational Therapy through Edu-Therapeutics

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

Parenting Children's Talents Blog

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

The Talented Performer newsletter

Athlete's Mental Skill newsletter

Athletic Performance:

Silver medalist in the 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