Comprehensive Psychodiagnostic Assessment
Are you experiencing a number of symptoms and wondering which diagnosis fits your experience? Are you a parent of a child who was recently diagnosed as neurodivergent and you recognize some of their symptoms in yourself? Do you need accommodations or medications and aim to learn if you qualify? If so, you’re seeking diagnostic clarity and personalized recommendations for the next steps to alleviate your symptoms. Assessment can be the helpful first step.
Dr. Shannon Thomas, Psy.D.
The Assessment Process
The results of psychological testing will reveal your diagnoses so that you can understand them and know how to achieve your therapy goals more quickly and effectively. Testing can also help you identify your personality, emotional, cognitive (academic and intelligence), social, and behavioral strengths versus areas of growth. Discovering how you learn best, how you interact with others, and how your personality traits are affecting you can help you learn your personal strengths. In your personalized recommendations, you will learn how to utilize these strengths to successfully alleviate and better manage your symptoms.
Assessment is not between you and the tests, it’s between you and the examiner – between two people. It’s a relational experience. It allows you to take control of your life by identifying the root cause(s) of your symptoms, so you know what to target in therapy or through the personalized and thorough recommendations I provide all my testing patients in their report. My reports average 30 pages and my turnaround time is two weeks from the day you complete your testing to the day you receive your comprehensive report.
Assessment
What are the benefits of testing and how do I know if you’re the right fit?
First, diagnostic clarity is key to make progress in therapy. When you do not have clarity on your diagnosis, your therapy will not have a clear path forward, because you will not know what symptoms to target. You may end up many months into therapy feeling “stalled:” noticing a lack of progress without a clear understanding of why. Psychological testing helps you target your specific symptoms and provide the foundation for your personalized treatment plan, so the path forward becomes clear and therapeutic goals may be achieved faster and more effectively.
Clarity
Second, assessment can tell you a lot more than whether you qualify for a certain diagnosis. It can tell you about why and how your diagnosis(es) are impacting your thoughts, feelings, and behavior, as well as how you engage in relationships with others, at work/in school, and the way you view yourself. Assessment can accomplish this by revealing your cognitive abilities, such as memory and problem-solving skills or your intellectual functioning, teach you about how you interact with the world: how you socialize, how you learn best, and reveal facets of your personality.
Gain Important Insights About Yourself
Third, these insights can help you identify your emotional, cognitive, personality, and social strengths and areas of growth. These strengths can be incorporated into techniques to treat your symptoms. Your areas of growth can be incorporated into treatment, making therapy and your recommendations more personalized to your unique experiences as an individual.
Specialized, Personal Recommendations
Third, these insights can help you identify your emotional, cognitive, personality, and social strengths and areas of growth. These strengths can be incorporated into techniques to treat your symptoms. Your areas of growth can be incorporated into treatment, making therapy and your recommendations more personalized to your unique experiences as an individual.
“What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.” - Albert Bandura
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Good Faith Estimate
If you are not using insurance to pay for therapy, then you have the right to request a “Good Faith Estimate:” an approximation of how much, based on the symptoms and treatment goals you identify during our consultation, you can expect your non-emergency mental health services to cost. If your symptoms and treatment goals do not increase from what is described in this Good Faith Estimate, you attend therapy as initially agreed upon (e.g.: one weekly 60 minute therapy session), and you receive a bill that is at least $400 more than your Good Faith Estimate, then you are permitted to dispute the bill. For questions or more information about your right to a Good Faith Estimate, visit www.cms.gov/nosurprises.