Mood or Personality Disorders, Eating Disorders, Trauma, & OCD
Do you think you may qualify for a diagnosis of:
Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Specific Phobia (e.g.: Testing Anxiety), Depression, Anger Issues, Bipolar Disorders, Behavioral, Emotional Functioning, PTSD, Acute Stress Disorder, Binging, Purging, Restrictive Eating, or Body Dysmorphia?
If you think that you may qualify for a combination of these disorders, then you are looking for a comprehensive psychodiagnostic assessment.
Comprehensive testing offers multifaceted benefits in addition to the clarity that the diagnoses themselves offer. These benefits include:
1. Holistic Understanding
A comprehensive psychodiagnostic assessment conducted by a psychologist provides you with a thorough understanding of your psychological functioning, encompassing your cognitive abilities, emotional regulation, personality traits, and behavioral patterns. This holistic view helps in capturing the complexity that is your unique self, rather than only narrowly focusing on specific symptoms or disorders as in more basic assessment modalities.
2. Accurate Diagnosis
By examining a wide range of potential causes for your symptoms, comprehensive assessment enhances the accuracy of diagnostic conclusions. This reduces the likelihood of misdiagnosis or overlooking co-occurring conditions, which leads to more precise treatment planning and interventions.
3. Work Smart
Some of my patients come for assessment never having attended therapy and seeking to know what to work on when they do. Others have been in therapy for months or years and seen minimal progress. They worry that they may be targeting the wrong diagnoses. After all, each diagnosis is treated so differently in therapy. Therapy takes so much effort, time, and money, so comprehensive assessment can help you ensure that you are spending your sessions working on the actual diagnoses causing your symptoms.
4. Identifying Underlying Issues
Beyond symptomatic presentation, a comprehensive assessment delves into underlying psychological factors contributing to your symptoms This can include past trauma, interpersonal dynamics, developmental history, and environmental stressors, thereby offering a deeper understanding of the root causes of distress.
5. Tailored Treatment Planning
Detailed insights gained from a comprehensive assessment enable me to provide you with personalized, detailed recommendations based on your unique needs. This personalized treatment plan can address specific strengths and weaknesses identified during the assessment, thereby promoting more effective therapeutic outcomes. If you decide to pursue therapy with me post-assessment, then we will integrate these recommendations into our treatment plan so we can hit the ground running.
Schedule a Free Consultation
I’m so glad you’re here. Let’s talk!
Call me to schedule a free 15 minute first session to learn how I work and ask any questions you may have about the process. If I’m with another patient when you call, please leave a voicemail with your availabilities so I can call you back when you are free to talk. I look forward to connecting with you.
Phone Number
(626) 784-7115
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.