My services
I use my decade-long experience in working with neurodiverse youth and adults to help achieve the most beneficial outcomes in all of my evaluation and therapy services.
Autism Evaluations
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Comprehensive autism evaluations for kids, teens, and young adults ages 18 months to 25 years old
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Specialize in more complex presentations, such as those ages 10-25, females and those AFAB, and transgender and non-binary folks
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Offer single-day evaluations for young children between the ages of 18 and 36 months (***this is currently on hold due to COVID-19)
Individual Therapy
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Collaborative process frequently involving both the youth and parents (especially for younger kids)
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Identify useful goals to improve quality of life and experiences in the home, school, & community settings
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Use evidence-based interventions to target identified goals
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Primarily utilize strengths-based CBT (cognitive-behavioral) therapeutic strategies to target goals
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Also utilize other related interventions, such as Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to target anxiety- and OCD-related behaviors and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Psychological Evaluations
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Comprehensive evaluations for school-aged kids, teens, and young adults (ages 5 to 25) to assess for:
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Inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity (such as seen in ADHD)
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Learning differences
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Developmental delays
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School challenges
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Challenging behaviors
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Mood & anxiety
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Parent Coaching
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Parenting neurodiverse children often requires a new and advanced parenting skillset
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Parent coaching involves parent-only sessions used to improve overall parenting strategies for neurodiverse children
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Identify specific parent and child goals to treat over 12 to 16 sessions
Post-Evaluation Support
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Geared toward parents who recently completed an evaluation for their child as well as teens & young adults who recently completed an evaluation
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Short term support (around 1 to 6 sessions) for parents who need some additional help in implementing the recommendations that were informed by the evaluation process or for teens & young adults to explore their neurodiversity
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Option to learn how to use evidence-based strategies to target 1 to 2 goals
Testing for School Programming
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Cognitive ("IQ") and achievement testing for school-programming purposes, such as private school enrollment and school placement
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Includes brief report
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Flat-rate testing services for school planning purposes