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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes and no.

It depends on what you need to get out of testing for your diagnosis.

• Would it be helpful to know for yourself, to help you with your life, career, relationships?

• Do you need it mostly to apply for government or other disability benefits, or does your workplace or school require neuropsych specific assessment to receive accommodations?

We shine brightest at working with you to help informally confirm/discern a suspected autism or ADHD diagnosis.

This option is desirable to lots of folks because

1. you have the flexibility of not putting a diagnosis on your medical record if you’re concerned about that, and

2. you can also start working on sensory supports, accommodations, and trauma work if needed right from day one, while you’re working through your diagnosis, and without having to wait for long, often expensive testing before you get to the support part.

Though we can work with you to confirm or disconfirm your suspicions of the diagnosis, we aren’t always able to provide the official assessment or formal letter that would be needed for some disability benefits.

Different systems and institutions have different requirements for that, but we’re happy to take a look at any requirements ahead of time if that’s what you’d need.

But here’s the thing: whether the diagnosis ends up officially being there or not . . . how you’re feeling right now matters.

We truly love getting to do all of this support work no matter what the diagnosis ends up being, because it’s usually struggles or feeling “different” that made you start wondering about the diagnosis in the first place. We haven’t met anyone that is seeking diagnosis just for fun.

Let’s say you didn’t meet the current criteria, for example - does that mean how you feel in this moment - in your current reality - doesn’t deserve sensory supports or trauma processing, or support for navigating your relationships? Just because you don’t meet the medical system’s criteria for a certain diagnosis?

It could even be that criteria for the diagnosis continue to evolve over the next few years, just as our current understanding has exponentially expanded over the last several years.

No matter your diagnosis, we do a lot of work to help you get supports in place and adjust to this new way of seeing life/self.

It’s different for everyone, but often looks like helping support sensory sensitivities, figuring out some accommodations for life/relationships - and so often there’s some grief, internalized shame, and trauma to work with, too.

If that’s not what you’re looking for and you’d just like meds or the old-school testing for now, we have some Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners that we trust and love to partner with who can get you squared away for that part of the process.

We do not have a prescriber on staff but have trusted Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners we partner with for medication management.

They usually have quick availability and we trust them with our own families - and they are truly neurodivergent-affirming, most of them having extensive lived experience themselves.