Psychological Assessment for Adults
Finally get answers — from someone who actually understands your whole picture.
Maybe you've suspected you're autistic for years. Maybe you got an ADHD diagnosis that helped some things but didn't explain everything. Maybe you're trans or nonbinary and wondering if the way your brain works has always been part of your story. Maybe a therapist, a partner, or your own gut has been telling you something is there — and you're ready to find out.
A comprehensive psychological assessment can give you clarity, language, and a roadmap. But only if the person doing it understands how autism and ADHD actually present in adults — especially adults who have spent years masking, adapting, and being missed.
That's what this is.
One note on logistics: the intake, follow-up interview, and feedback sessions are all telehealth, available across 44 states and territories — but the testing session (Session 2) takes place in person at my office in Southington, Connecticut.
Who This Is For
This assessment is designed for adults — college age and older — who are seeking evaluation for autism, ADHD, or both.
You might be:
An adult who has suspected autism or ADHD for years but was never evaluated, or was evaluated and told you didn't fit the profile
Someone who received an ADHD diagnosis but wonders if autism is also part of the picture — or vice versa
A woman or an AFAB individual, who masked through school and life and is only now starting to understand why everything has always felt harder than it looked
A trans or gender-diverse person whose neurodivergence was overlooked because of your gender — or whose gender experience was dismissed because of your neurodivergence
Someone who has been in therapy for anxiety, depression, or trauma for years and feels like something is being missed
A self-identified neurodivergent person seeking formal documentation for workplace or academic accommodations
Someone whose prior diagnosis never quite fit — and who wants a fresh, comprehensive look
A self-referred adult whose parents didn't notice, didn't believe them, or remember their childhood differently
You do not need a referral. You do not need to have a diagnosis already. You just need to wonder.
What Makes This Assessment Different
Most psychological assessments were developed using samples that skewed heavily toward white, cisgender, non-autistic boys. That means the tools themselves — and the clinicians using them — often miss autism and ADHD in people who don't fit that profile.
This assessment is specifically designed to account for:
Masking
The exhausting work of learning to appear neurotypical. Many adults have masked so effectively that standard assessments miss what's actually there. I look underneath the mask.
AFAB Presentations
The diagnostic criteria were written about boys. If you weren't one, there's a good chance your symptoms were invisible, misread, or explained away. This evaluation is built to find what those earlier assessments missed.
Trauma
Trauma and PTSD can look like autism and ADHD, and they frequently co-occur. A trauma-informed evaluator doesn't confuse one for the other — or miss the ways they interact.
Gender Experience
Being trans, nonbinary, or gender-diverse shapes how you've moved through the world, how you've been perceived, and how your symptoms present. That context matters and belongs in the evaluation.
ASD/ADHD/AuDHD
Autism and ADHD overlap significantly and frequently co-occur. Distinguishing between them — or identifying both — requires specific clinical expertise and the right tools.
Self-Referred Adults
If parental collateral isn't available, reliable, or welcome — that doesn't disqualify you from getting answers. I build complete evaluations around your account of your own life.
What the Assessment Includes
Every evaluation is tailored to your specific history, profile, and referral questions. A typical evaluation involves an initial telehealth intake, an in-person testing session in Southington, CT, a follow-up telehealth interview, and a feedback session where we review findings together.
As part of that process, you'll complete validated screening measures and I'll review any prior records you're able to share. A collateral informant — a partner, family member, or close friend — can also contribute observations, though this is optional.
The process concludes with a comprehensive written report — not a checkbox document, but a detailed clinical record you can use with other providers, employers, and disability services.
Have questions about whether this process fits your situation? Reach out before scheduling and we can talk it through.
What This Evaluation Diagnoses and Screens For
Every evaluation includes a comprehensive differential process. I assess and diagnose:
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Trauma-related disorders, including PTSD and complex trauma
OCD
Mood disorders, including depression, anxiety disorders, and bipolar-spectrum presentations
As part of the differential diagnostic process, I also screen for:
Psychosis-spectrum symptoms
Eating disorder symptoms
Personality structure and personality-related patterns
This broader screening ensures that what looks like autism or ADHD isn't something else — or something additional — that deserves attention.
What This Evaluation Can and Cannot Do
This evaluation establishes clinical diagnoses, documents functional impact, and can support requests for workplace and academic accommodations.
This evaluation cannot:
Guarantee eligibility for specific accommodations — that determination is made by the institution or employer
Guarantee insurance approval for specific treatments or services
If you have questions about whether this evaluation will meet a specific purpose — accommodations, legal documentation, or otherwise — reach out before scheduling and we can talk it through.
Pricing
Comprehensive Adult Autism & ADHD Evaluation: $3,500
This includes all sessions, records review, scoring and interpretation of all measures, the written report, and the feedback session.
Full payment is due prior to Session 2. Superbills are available for potential out-of-network reimbursement — though insurance coverage for psychological assessment varies widely and is not guaranteed.
Add-ons:
Learning Disorder Diagnostic Add-On (reading, written expression, mathematics): available upon request — contact me to discuss whether this is appropriate for your evaluation.
A Note on Self-Diagnosis
If you already identify as autistic or ADHD without a formal diagnosis, that is valid. You do not need a piece of paper to know how your brain works. A formal assessment may be useful if you want documentation for accommodations, clarity about whether autism or ADHD better explains your experience, or information about how your neurotype interacts with other things you're navigating — but it is not a requirement for your identity or your right to support.
About My Approach
I am a licensed psychologist with advanced training in neurodevelopment, trauma, and gender-diverse care. I have particular expertise in the presentations of autism and ADHD that are most often missed — in adults, in women and AFAB individuals, in queer and trans people, and in those whose trauma histories have complicated the picture.
My reports are thorough, strengths-based, and written for real people — not just for other clinicians. My goal is that you leave the feedback session with genuine clarity about how your brain works and what will actually help.
The initial telehealth sessions and feedback session are available across 44 US states and territories. Session 2 is in person in Southington, CT.