Comprehensive Psychological Testing & Evaluation
Maybe you have been wondering about yourself for a long time.
Maybe you’re dealing with treatment-resistant depression or anxiety that hasn't improved despite your best efforts to change.
Maybe you’ve experienced trauma and you’re trying to understand how it’s impacted you.
Maybe you notice patterns in the ways you think, behave, and relate to other people, but you don’t have language for it yet.
I provide thorough, comprehensive psychological assessments for adults in Kentucky navigating complex mental health presentations--including mood disorders, anxiety, trauma, personality patterns, and psychosis-spectrum conditions--as well as adult ADHD and autism.
I have experience with high-masking presentations, 2e (twice exceptional) individuals, and cases where previous evaluations were incomplete or inconclusive.
During assessment, I look at the whole picture of you: how you think, feel and relate to others; your personality and how you regulate emotions; your developmental history and current functioning, The result is a detailed psychologically-informed framework for understanding your experiences, plus concrete recommendations for what comes next.
You’ll receive a thorough written report designed to help you, your loved ones, and your treatment providers better understand and assist you, and a feedback session where we discuss your results together to ensure everything makes sense.
What To Expect:
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A thorough review of your history and experiences – Not just a checklist. I want to understand your upbringing, relationships, experiences, what you’ve noticed about yourself, what brought you here.
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Standardized psychological, cognitive, and personality assessments – Research-based tools that help you understand how your abilities, traits, and experiences relate to others. I only use tools that are grounded in clinical science and have established empirical support.
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A written report – Detailed, clear, and written with your voice and descriptions of your experiences intact. This report will explain what we covered, what we found, and provide tailored recommendations for what comes next. You keep a copy of your report and may share it at your discretion with loved ones or other providers.
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A feedback session – We go through the results and findings together, so you understand what all the test results and what they mean for you. You are welcome to bring family with you to this session.
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Optional follow-up – If you want me to talk directly with your therapist or have a follow-up session to go deeper later, we can arrange that.
What's Included:
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Clinical interview covering your history, current functioning, and presenting concerns
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Validated psychological testing specific to what we're evaluating
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Personality and emotional functioning assessment
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Cognitive screening to understand how you process information
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Written report with clear findings and recommendations
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Feedback session to discuss results
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Up to one hour of records review or collateral interview
Why This Approach:
All my assessments are thorough and comprehensive by design. Complex conditions and adult-diagnosed autism and ADHD typically present with co-occurring problems that are important to understand when considering you holistically. You will receive diagnostic impressions, but also information about how everything connects, whether that be how your ADHD intersects with anxiety, ways your emotion regulation patterns are impacting your relationships, or whether what looks like chronic depression may be something else. Your report is designed to be useful to you beyond a diagnostic label, but to help you and others understand you more clearly in a way that leads toward achieving your goals.
It is important to note that sometimes diagnostic pictures are complex or ambiguous. I will not force a diagnosis that does not fit. Instead, I provide clear, honest findings and tailored recommendations based on what we collaboratively discover during the assessment process.
Assessment Options and Pricing:
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Comprehensive Mental Health Assessment - $2,200
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In-depth evaluation of emotional, behavioral, and psychological functioning for adults presenting with complex or unclear diagnostic pictures. Uses clinical and semi-structured diagnostic interviewing, personality assessment, and targeted symptom measures to differentiate between overlapping conditions (e.g., mood disorders, anxiety disorders, OCD, trauma-related conditions, personality disorders).
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Autism Assessment - $2,500
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Specialized evaluation for autism spectrum presentations using autism-specific interviewing, collateral interview with family member or someone who knew you in childhood, and comprehensive psychological testing. Includes differential diagnosis to distinguish autism from other social or emotional conditions such as social anxiety, trauma, depression, or personality patterns.
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ADHD Assessment - $2,500
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Specialized evaluation for ADHD using ADHD-specific interviewing, collateral interviewing with family member or someone who knew you in childhood, brief cognitive screening, and comprehensive psychological testing. Includes differential diagnosis to distinguish ADHD from other social or emotional conditions such as social anxiety, trauma, depression, or personality patterns.
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Combined Autism & ADHD Assessment - $3,000
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Integrated evaluation when both Autism and ADHD are being considered. Includes all components of both individual assessments.
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Important: As a solo practitioner in private practice, I do not have the resources to provide services for clients who have active suicidal ideation, psychosis, or acute psychiatric crises. If you are in crisis, please dial 988, text HOME to 741741, or go to your nearest emergency room.