Psychological & Developmental Testing

Children do not progress evenly in all areas of development.  Your child may be advanced socially but delayed in math.  Another child may have excellent cognitive intelligence and delayed emotional intelligence.  When we fully understand specific strengths and weaknesses, we can establish tailored treatment suggestions.  These treatment suggestions will provide you a “road map” to know what skills need to be practiced with consistent positive reinforcement and what skills need to be encouraged as strengths.

During psychological assessments, we evaluate a client’s psychological, social, emotional, and behavioral well-being through open dialogue and formal testing. The assessment process will involve both of the following to identify the individual’s strengths and needs:

1. A series of face-to-face interviews where we meet with the client and parents/guardians to gain a rich understanding of the client’s emotions, behaviors, thoughts, and coping strategies.
2. A series of standardized tests (both verbal and written) to gain more objective and data-driven insights regarding a client’s overall well-being.
3. Due to the seriousness of this testing, you are not allowed to bring other children into the clinic for the testing appointment. For accurate results, we must limit distractions for both the child being tested and the parent(s)/guardian(s).

As adults transition through the stages of life, there can be significant changes that inhibit success.  Our psychological testing will provide you with a personalized understanding of your specific strengths and weaknesses.  Once these are identified, we can help people overcome some of their psychological, social, emotional, or behavioral problems.  Our testing also assesses memory, problem-solving skills, and intellectual functioning.  In a world where many physical symptoms are often explained away as a “mental health problem”, we like to help people understand how different symptoms are rooted in biology, emotion, or both.  This knowledge empowers individuals to better advocate for themselves in a variety of settings from the workplace to medical facilities.