Areas of Specialty

Psychological Assessment (Ages 6 & Up)

I dedicate the majority of my clinical practice to psychological assessment to assist in the understanding of you or a child’s experience. Assessment can help identify and explain differences in brain style that impact things like attention and learning, social and behavioral patterns, personality styles, and sensory experiences. Assessment can also help to shed light on specific strengths within your brain style as well and how to channel those strengths into meaningful changes in your life.

Purpose of Testing

Although many seek assessment primarily in order to clarify diagnoses, I view the process as far more meaningful beyond diagnostic clarification. I approach testing as a vehicle through which we better understand you or your child. Improving self-understanding then lends itself to individualized recommendations and feedback for moving forward in a more effective and empowered way. If you are working with an individual therapist, I believe in consulting with that provider so the assessment findings can serve as a catalyst for growth in that relationship as well. Assessment can also help provide ideas for accommodations for the workplace or a child’s academic environment. For parents considering assessment for their child, I dedicate much of my feedback process to helping guide parents towards the next steps in best supporting their child with this new information under their belt.

Process of Testing

Testing always involves an initial clinical intake where we identify your needs and questions around testing. Following this, assessment is usually completed in 1-2 face-to-face appointments and is supplemented by collecting rating scale information from others in your life. After all data is collected, we will schedule a comprehensive feedback session to go over my findings and recommendations.