Neuropsychological evaluations examine cognitive, academic, and emotional functioning in a structured and systematic way. These evaluations may be helpful when there are concerns about attention, learning differences, executive functioning, memory, language, processing speed, mood, or social development.

For children and adolescents, evaluations often inform school planning, accommodations, and treatment recommendations. For adults, assessments may clarify longstanding difficulties, support academic or workplace accommodations, or provide insight into patterns that have persisted over time.

Each evaluation includes a detailed written report and a feedback session to review findings and recommendations. When appropriate, I collaborate with schools, physicians, and other providers to ensure that results are translated into practical next steps.

Neuropsychological Evaluations

I specialize in neurodiversity-affirming evaluations for Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, and OCD across the lifespan. These assessments are grounded in current research while also recognizing that neurodivergence presents in diverse and often subtle ways.

Many individuals, particularly girls, women, high-achieving students, and professionals, go undiagnosed for years. Others begin to question neurodivergence later in life, sometimes after a child receives a diagnosis or a partner raises concerns. Some have developed strong compensatory strategies or learned to mask social and sensory differences in ways that obscure traditional diagnostic markers. Others have long been described as rigid, overly sensitive, socially awkward, intense, or emotionally distant without a clear explanation for those patterns.

As a result, challenges are frequently misinterpreted as anxiety, mood instability, personality traits, relationship conflict, or simply “being too sensitive” or “not trying hard enough.” In some cases, questions arise within a partnership, where recurring misunderstandings or communication differences lead one or both partners to wonder whether neurodivergence may be playing a role.

My approach takes masking, camouflaging, and developmental history seriously. I look beyond surface presentation to understand patterns of sensory processing, social communication, executive functioning, emotional regulation, and relational style over time. Strengths are considered as carefully as challenges, including creativity, intensity of interest, pattern recognition, and moral or intellectual depth.

These evaluations are comprehensive and nuanced. They are designed not only to clarify diagnosis when appropriate, but to offer a coherent narrative that helps individuals and families make sense of long-standing experiences. The goal is clarity without pathologizing difference, along with recommendations that support real-world functioning while honoring neurodivergent identity.

Neurodiversity-Affirming Diagnostic Assessments