Neurodiversity Assessment
If you think you have or your child has Autism/ADHD and are wanting a diagnostic assessment for your child and would like a specialist skilled and experienced Clinical Psychologist and team to support you, get in contact.
We offer a pre-diagnostic psychology assessment to understand you/ child’s needs to determine whether a diagnostic assessment is required, to understand what might be happening and answer any of your questions.
Mother of 25 y/o male, Autism assessment and post diagnostic support/therapy
“After being told lots of conflicting information about the best support for our son, Dr Sarah and team created a safe space for his assessment and helped us understand what to do next as a family.”
20s female, self-referred for ADHD assessment
“Sarah made the assessment really simple for me to follow. Now I understand myself.”
Learn more about the process
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Dr Sarah is a specialist Clinical Psychologist who has spent her career ensuring that she understands how best to assess children, young people and adults for Autism and ADHD. Learn more about the team here.
We will offer you a comprehensive specialist assessment that complies with clinical guidelines and best practice. Dr Sarah works in a team with other experienced and specialist clinicians and supervisors to ensure that the right decisions are being made.
We can offer further reassurance about what we offer and the process in your psychology assessment. Contact
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Your assessment can start as soon as this week. Get in touch to check availability.
If you are going through an insurance company to finance the assessment, please make sure you have a pre-authorisation code prior to getting in contact. Any problems with this contact me and I will support you through the process.
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First you/your child will be offered a psychological pre-diagnostic assessment (£130) to learn what you or your child’s needs might be. You might be unsure of whether you/child needs a full assessment or whether something else might be happening for you/them, so a pre-diagnostic psychology session is here to reassure you and provide you with some initial answers. Dr Sarah and team believe that this first step is important; ethically (as you might not need a full assessment), financially (you don’t want to be spending unnecessary money) and there might be something that needs to happen first to ensure you/your child are getting the right help immediately.
For a full diagnostic assessment the number of sessions and time needed can depend on lots of different things. An Autism or ADHD assessment can take about 2-4 sessions. We will be transparent with you to let you know what is needed and how long it will take, once we have met with you.
Things you are likely to be asked to do:
● Fill out some questionnaires
● Have an interview about your/child’s life and needs
● Provide a person we can speak with, who knew you in your childhood, preferably a parent or caregiver. If these people are not available to you, having someone who has known you for a while and knows you well, is helpful. Do not worry if this is not available to you- we will discuss this in your initial session.
● Do a standardised assessment where we will do some activities and answer some questions.
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Once the assessment is completed Dr Sarah will inform you as to whether you meet the criteria for Autism and/or ADHD. If you do not meet the criteria she will give you an explanation as to why you present as you do.
We will provide you with a full and comprehensive assessment report for why the decision was made. We will also provide you with a short summary letter (if wanted).
We will provide you with recommendations for what might be helpful for you moving forward.
● For example, if you are a child/ young person, we will provide recommendations for; school/college/uni, family and what you might need support with in the future.
● For example, if you are an adult, we will provide recommendations for; work, managing relationships and support you might need e.g. from a therapist.
We know a range of helpful organisations and resources that could help you after a diagnostic outcome.
We can provide different services to support you before, during and after your diagnosis, including therapy, social work, and family advocacy, these are at an additional fee.
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We offer the assessments face to face at home or in a clinic space and virtually using zoom.
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Initial psychological pre-diagnostic assessment £130
Autism Assessment
Adult £1800
Child (under 18) £2200
ADHD Assessment
Adult £1200
Child (under 18) £1500
Autism and ADHD Assessment
Adult £2200
Child (under 18) £2800
Additional Assessments £600-£800
You will be asked to provide half the amount prior to the first session and the other half when you receive your report.
Post diagnostic or coaching sessions £130 per session
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We are a Psychology led service with a multi disciplinary team. However we do not offer recommendations or prescriptions for ADHD medications or medications for physical or mental health disorders. If what you are needing/wanting is medication please choose an alternative provider.