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Our practice offers a breadth of assessment options, without sacrificing depth of expertise.
Assessment is the center of the work. Around it sit consultation, psychotherapy, and education — each grounded in the same careful, practical psychology approach to cognition and mental health.
What to expect
What to Expect from Your Assessment
Every assessment is tailored to you. Before we begin any testing, we start with a clinical interview — a relaxed 45–60 minute phone conversation where we talk through your history, your concerns, and what you're hoping to better understand. This conversation shapes the specific tests we use (i.e. the “test battery”), in order to curate a custom analysis and answer the questions that matter most.
From there, our testing explores:
- Thinking skills — things like memory, attention, problem-solving, processing speed, and reasoning (“executive functioning,” of course). This helps paint a picture of how your mind is working day to day.
- Emotional wellbeing — we also screen broadly for things like mood, anxiety, and other psychological factors that could be part of the picture.
- Everyday functioning — we look at how any symptoms might be showing up in real life — at work, in relationships, or in daily routines — so the results connect back to real-world, daily operations. We want our reports to be useful to understanding yourself, your strengths, and help you set yourself up for success.
At the end, you'll walk away with clear answers, not just a stack of numbers — and a better understanding of what's going on and what might help. You'll receive a copy of your report, which you can share with your other healthcare professionals to inform your progress moving forward.
Understanding Your Assessment Options
Mental health and neurodevelopmental diagnoses can be evaluated at different levels of depth. The appropriate level depends on the referral question, the complexity of the symptoms, and how much objective information is needed to understand the person's functioning.
As shown in the graphic, each option adds another layer of information:
- 1.Diagnostic Interviewing — clinical interview and symptom history.
- 2.Psychometric Screening — clinical interview and symptom history, plus norm-referenced psychometric screening instruments. This is offered through our neuropsychological screening service and may fit your needs. Please inquire to learn whether this option is appropriate for your referral question.
- 3.Neuropsychological Assessment — clinical interview and symptom history, plus psychometric instruments, plus administration of standardized, norm-referenced neurocognitive tests.
Diagnostic Interviewing involves a structured clinical interview focused on symptoms, developmental and medical history, current functioning, and other relevant background information. Diagnoses are often made primarily through this process when the clinical picture is relatively clear. — $195.
Psychometric Screening adds standardized questionnaires and rating scales to the clinical interview. These instruments compare a person's reported symptoms or behaviors with established norms and can help quantify concerns such as attention difficulties, anxiety, mood symptoms, autism-related characteristics, adaptive functioning, or other psychological features. This option is available through our neuropsychological screening service and may be appropriate when additional objective information is helpful but comprehensive cognitive testing is not necessary. — $699.
Neuropsychological Assessment is the most comprehensive option. In addition to the clinical interview and psychometric measures, it includes individually administered, norm-referenced cognitive tests that directly measure areas such as intellectual functioning, attention, memory, executive functioning, processing speed, language, and other neurocognitive abilities. This approach can be particularly helpful when the goal is to understand why difficulties are occurring, distinguish between overlapping conditions, or develop more individualized recommendations. — $2,999.
Importantly, more testing is not automatically better. Many patient-consumers do not realize that psychologists are uniquely trained to interview, assess, and diagnose, with or without IQ or cognitive data, questionnaires, etc. A free consultation can help you determine the most appropriate level of testing for your situation, saving you time, effort, and cost, without sacrificing the level of accuracy you need.
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