ADHD Evaluation & Support
ADHD and learning challenges doesn’t just affect grades or productivity—they impact identity, relationships, and how you feel about yourself. Our evaluations are designed to understand your brain in context, not reduce you to a checklist.
Who This Service Is For
An ADHD or educational evaluation may be helpful if:
- A child or teen is struggling with attention, organization, behavior, or school performance
- You’re a parent seeking data to support school accommodations (IEPs, 504 plans) or medication decisions
ADHD Support services may be helpful if:
- You are a child or parent of a child with ADHD
- An adult with ADHD seeking support for personal, professional, or other related performance
What an evaluation includes
While each evaluation is tailored to the person, a typical process may include:
- A detailed clinical interview to understand history, strengths, and current concerns
- Rating scales and questionnaires from you, parents, and/or teachers as relevant
- Cognitive and/or academic testing when indicated
- Screening for anxiety, depression, trauma, sleep, and other conditions that can mimic or complicate ADHD
- A feedback session where we walk through results in plain language
A written report with concrete recommendations for home, school, and work
Our Approach: Why a Careful Evaluation Matters
We believe ADHD is real. We’re also conservative and thorough in diagnosing it. We have plenty of evidence that ADHD is BOTH under-diagnosed (we are missing people with it) and over-diagnosed (diagnosing people with needs best explained by something else).
That means:
- We don’t rush to a label just because attention is hard.
- We don’t dismiss ADHD if it’s there, even if you’ve found ways to compensate.
- We always consider context—trauma, anxiety, depression, sleep, learning environment, and demands.
The goal is not simply to decide “ADHD or not,” but to understand what’s contributing to your challenges and what can help.
After the evaluation
An evaluation is the start of clarity, not the end of the story. After feedback, we can:
- Provide follow-up sessions to talk through results and what they mean for your daily life
- Help families communicate with schools and advocate for appropriate supports
- Coordinate with your existing providers (with your consent) around medication and treatment planning
Offer ADHD-oriented therapy and skills work, if that’s a good fit
Paying for Evaluations
Evaluations are expensive. There is no denying that. The expense comes from the time spent doing the actual tests, interviewing and gather data from multiple people, compiling all the information into something that makes sense, and then writing it up. Insurance can definitely help, but even then evaluations can be expensive.
If you are student or parent of a student in a public education system, you can get a free evaluation done through the school. It is for educational purposes only–so it would not count as a “medical diagnosis”–but it is required for school-based supports. For most families, we recommend this option just to save you the money.
IN GENERAL: If concerns are mild, recent, or primarily medication-related, it may make sense to start with your pediatrician, PCP, or school team before pursuing a full private evaluation.
But sometimes it makes sense to get another perspective or the wait-time for school-based evaluation is too long. In that case, we can provide the evaluation and will work to get your costs covered by insurance as much as possible. Use the calculator below to estimate your total cost for the evaluation.
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