Services
What I evaluate.
Each evaluation starts with your question. How many visits it takes depends on the question, and I tell you the plan and each visit's length before you book.
ADHD evaluation
For adults who wonder whether trouble with focus, organization or follow-through fits ADHD, or something else. The evaluation includes a clinical interview, your history from childhood on, rating scales, and testing of attention and memory. It is not therapy, and I do not prescribe medication.
Interview and history
Rating scales
Attention and memory testing
Written report and feedback
Autism evaluation
For adults who have long felt different in how they connect, communicate or take in the world. The evaluation includes a detailed interview about your childhood and daily life, structured tasks in session, and, if you wish, a conversation with someone who knew you as a child. It is not therapy.
Developmental interview
Structured tasks in session
Input from someone who knew you, if you wish
Written report and feedback
Learning and cognitive evaluation
For adults who want to know how they learn, read, remember and solve problems, often for school, a licensing exam or work. Testing covers reasoning, memory, processing speed and academic skills. An evaluation describes how you work; it does not promise a particular result.
Reasoning and memory
Processing speed
Reading, writing and math skills
Written report and feedback
A second look
For adults who carry a diagnosis they are unsure about, or several that do not seem to fit together. I review earlier records and test what is needed to look again. The findings may agree with what you were told, differ from it or leave questions open, and I say which.
Review of earlier records
Testing where it is needed
Written report and feedback
Evaluation and therapy
An evaluation is not therapy.
They answer different questions and run on different schedules. Some people want one, some the other, some both.
Therapy
Works toward a goal: what can change?
Ongoing sessions, at a pace you set
Skills and support in the room
Conversation and practice
One therapist, week to week
An evaluation
Answers a question: what is going on?
Visits with a clear end
A written report you keep
Interviews, records and testing
Next steps put in writing
Ready to start with your question?
Write to me and tell me how to reach you. I reply on weekdays.