Psychological Evaluation
Understanding yourself starts with understanding the whole picture
Sometimes, having a better understanding of why you think, feel, or function the way you do can make a big difference.
Psychological assessment can provide a clearer picture of your strengths, challenges, and patterns of functioning, helping you turn questions into answers.
Whether you're seeking answers for yourself, your child, or your teen, an evaluation can be a helpful step toward better understanding and meaningful support.
What is Psychological Assessment?
A psychological assessment is a comprehensive process used to better understand how someone thinks, learns, feels, and functions. It involves more than simply completing a few tests. Your evaluation is designed to bring together information from different sources to create a more complete picture of the person being assessed.
Depending on the reason for the evaluation, this may include standardized psychological tests, interviews, questionnaires, behavioral observations, and a review of relevant background information.
The goal isn't simply to put a label on someone's experiences. It's to understand the whole picture, including areas of strength, areas of difficulty, and what may be contributing to the concerns you're experiencing.
Types of Assessments Offered
ADHD
Evaluation
Autism &
Developmental
Learning &
Academic
Disability
Determination
Mental Status
Sexual Health &
Functioning
General Psychological Evaluation
Who Can Benefit From an Evaluation?
Psychological assessment can be helpful when you have questions that aren't easily answered by looking at one area of functioning alone.
An evaluation may be helpful to:
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Explore concerns related to attention, organization, impulse control, time management, working memory, and other executive functioning skills.
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Identify learning strengths and challenges that may be affecting academic performance, including reading, writing, math, memory, or processing.
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Gain a clearer understanding of emotional or behavioral concerns that may be affecting functioning at home, school, work, or in relationships.
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Explore psychological, emotional, and relational factors that may be contributing to concerns related to sexual health or functioning.
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Provide psychological information that may help inform disability-related questions and determinations when appropriate.
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Assess current cognitive, emotional, and psychological functioning to help identify areas that may need further evaluation or support.
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Explore symptoms and patterns associated with trauma and determine whether they may be consistent with a trauma-related diagnosis.
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When symptoms overlap or the answer isn't clear, an evaluation can help sort through the possibilities and provide a more complete understanding of what's going on.
How The Assessment Process Works
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Intake
This session may take place either in person or through telehealth. I'll review relevant background and history, talk through the reasons for the evaluation, and determine the next steps together.
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Testing
During this appointment, you’ll complete a series of standardized assessments selected based on your individual concerns and needs. Because each evaluation is personalized, the number and length of testing sessions may vary.
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Feedback
This appointment, either in person or through telehealth, the results of the evaluation will be discussed and recommendations provided. This information will also be given in a written psychological report.
There is no "one-size fits all" Assessment
A Personalized Evaluation
The tests and information gathered during an evaluation are selected based on the individual and the questions we're trying to answer. Your background, current concerns, strengths, and goals all help shape the evaluation process.
I don't believe an assessment should be about reducing someone to a score or a diagnosis. Numbers can provide valuable information, but they're only one piece of the puzzle. My goal is to put those pieces together in a way that is meaningful, understandable, and useful.
At the end of the process, you'll have more than a collection of test scores. You'll have a clearer understanding of the person being assessed and recommendations that can help guide what comes next.
Assessments for Kids, Teens & Adults
Psychological assessment can look different depending on where someone is in life.
Kids & Teens
Children and teenagers don't always have the words to explain what they're experiencing. Sometimes difficulties with attention, learning, emotions, behavior, or school can leave parents wondering what is really going on beneath the surface.
Assessment can help provide insight into how a child or teen learns, thinks, processes information, and functions emotionally and behaviorally.
The goal is to better understand their individual needs while identifying strengths that can be built upon.
Adults
You don't outgrow questions about how your brain works.
Adults may seek an evaluation because they've struggled with attention, organization, learning, memory, or other areas of functioning for years without fully understanding why. Others may be looking for answers because challenges have become more noticeable as responsibilities have increased.
An assessment can provide a clearer picture of your strengths and challenges and help make sense of patterns that may have been present for much longer than you realized.
What You'll Get From an Assessment
Psychological assessment can look different depending on where someone is in life.
My goal is for you to leave the process with a clearer picture of:
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Your cognitive and psychological strengths
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Areas that may be creating challenges
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Patterns that may help explain your current concerns
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How your results fit together as a whole
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Practical recommendations for moving forward
Your results will be explained in understandable language, with space to ask questions and make sense of what they mean for you or your child.
Assessment Fees
How Do Fees Work?
Evaluation fees are offered at a flat rate and do not vary based on the concerns being assessed. Assessment services are provided on a private-pay basis, meaning payment is made directly to Soft Landing Therapy rather than billed to insurance.
Psychological assessments are $600. A 50% initial payment of $300 is due at the time of booking to reserve your assessment appointment. The remaining $300 is due at the time of the assessment intake appointment.
Please reach out with any questions about fees, payment options, or the evaluation process.