Evaluations
Sometimes you know something isn’t quite adding up.
Maybe your child is bright and capable but struggling with attention, organization, school performance, or managing everyday responsibilities. Or maybe you’ve spent years wondering why staying focused, keeping up with tasks, or managing everything on your plate seems harder for you than it does for everyone else.
A psychological evaluation can help explore these concerns, identify patterns, and provide information that may help guide next steps.
What an Evaluation Can Explore
The goal of an evaluation isn’t simply to determine whether a diagnosis applies. It’s an opportunity to better understand how you or your child thinks, learns, processes information, and functions in everyday life.
I provide comprehensive evaluations for adolescents and adults in areas including:
- ADHD and executive functioning
- Autism spectrum concerns
- Giftedness
- Learning and academic concerns
- Personality and emotional functioning
- Anxiety, mood, and behavioral concerns
- Diagnostic clarification
What to Expect
The evaluation process begins with a comprehensive intake where we discuss current concerns, relevant history, and the questions you are hoping to explore.
Testing is individualized based on those concerns and may include measures of cognitive abilities, attention, executive functioning, academic skills, personality, emotional functioning, and behavior.
Comprehensive testing typically takes approximately 3–5 hours and can be divided across appointments when needed.
After testing is completed, I integrate the available information into a comprehensive written report that reviews the findings, diagnostic impressions when supported by the evaluation, and individualized recommendations based on the results.
We’ll then meet for a one-hour feedback session to review the findings together, answer questions, and discuss recommendations and possible next steps.
Understanding Your Results
A good evaluation should provide more than a collection of test scores.
My goal is to provide information that may help you better understand areas of strength and difficulty, recognize meaningful patterns, and consider supports or strategies that may be helpful moving forward.
For adolescents, recommendations may include strategies for home and school, academic supports, accommodations, or treatment recommendations. For adults, recommendations may include practical strategies related to work, relationships, organization, executive functioning, and everyday life.
When something feels harder than it should, an evaluation can be a helpful step toward better understanding what may be contributing—and what supports may be worth considering.