Services
The Assessment Process
Our process involves three appointments: intake, assessment, and feedback.
We begin with a 60-minute intake appointment to collaboratively design the evaluation process around your needs. This is generally followed, within 1 to 3 weeks, by an assessment appointment which can range from under an hour to five hours, depending on which service you've selected.
Results typically take 1 to 4 weeks to be reviewed, processed, and written into a report. We conclude with a 45-minute feedback session, where Dr. Worm reviews your results and shares detailed recommendations both in conversation with you and in a written report.
Intake and feedback sessions are conducted virtually, while the assessment appointment may be virtual or in-person. The Comprehensive Adult ADHD Assessment and Learning Disability Assessment both require in-person cognitive testing while the Diagnostic ADHD Assessment and Autism Evaluation can be completed fully virtually.
If results are needed more quickly, just let us know and we’ll do our best to accommodate.
Here is what each appointment looks like:
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Prior to your appointment, you'll complete an intake form covering key aspects of your history. During the intake appointment, we will:
Discuss your experiences across domains such as academic, work, family history, cognitive, emotional, physical, and social functioning
Collaborate to identify the best approach for your assessment process, including whether the evaluation is the right next step for you. If not, Dr. Worm will provide resources and referrals
Schedule your assessment and feedback appointments
The intake appointment lasts approximately 60 minutes and is conducted virtually for your convenience.
If you've had prior testing, evaluations, or diagnoses, please bring that documentation to your intake appointment, or upload it beforehand to the client portal.
If you are interested in exploring academic, work, or standardized testing accommodations, please let Dr. Worm know so we can confirm the assessment process covers any required items.
Between the intake and assessment appointments, you and someone who knows you well may be asked to complete surveys or questionnaires about your experiences.
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Conducted after the intake appointment, generally 1 to 3 weeks afterward.
For ADHD and Learning Disability Assessment, we'll lead you through activities that measure different cognitive processes. Activities include:
Answering questions
Writing
Drawing
Completing puzzles
For Autism Evaluations, we’ll have a structured, naturalistic conversation through a neuro-affirming lens to explore your past and current experiences, including sensory use and interests, language and communication, and social relationships and emotional responses.
The appointment length varies from under 1 hour to 5 hours and will be reviewed with you during your intake appointment.
Please take your medications as usual on testing day, with one exception: ADHD medication should not be taken the day of your assessment, unless your clinician specifically advises otherwise.
Bringing your own snacks and water can be helpful during breaks.
The testing room is well air-conditioned, so please consider bringing an extra layer if needed.
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Generally scheduled 1 to 4 weeks after the assessment appointment.
During this time, Dr. Worm reviews the results of your evaluation and integrates them with the discussion of your lived experience from the intake appointment. He then prepares a written report providing an overview of the assessment process and findings. All written reports can generally be used for accommodations for school and work and sent to other providers including psychiatrists and therapists. Generally, only Comprehensive ADHD and Learning Disability Assessment reports can be used for accommodations for standardized tests.
During the feedback session, Dr. Worm will walk you through the results and explore with you how they align with your lived experience. This is also your opportunity to ask questions or share any concerns about the results.
At the end of the session, he'll provide you with your written report. If any changes are needed to better align with the discussion from the feedback session, Dr. Worm will provide the report within one week of the feedback session.
The feedback appointment lasts approximately 45 minutes and is conducted virtually for your convenience.
If you need your report sent directly to a school, employer, or other party, let us know and we can arrange that with your written permission.
If reevaluation, further documentation, or additional resources are needed after your feedback session, just let us know. We're happy to work with you.
Below is more information about the assessments we offer.
Unsure which one suits you? Reach out to us today, and we'll help you find the right one. We offer complementary 15 minute consultations to discuss options.
Comprehensive Adult ADHD Assessment
Wondering how your brain processes the world and what that means for work, learning, and daily life?
Our comprehensive psychological evaluation builds a rich, multidimensional picture of your cognitive profile including how attention, energy, and daily life fit together as a whole, rather than in fragments.
This is not a deficit checklist. It is a structured process conducted alongside a psychologist who holds your history, strengths, and lived experience as central, not incidental, to what the results mean.
Areas the evaluation explores include:
Attention and executive function - How you plan, shift focus, manage time, and get started, including where you shine and where things get hard
Learning and memory - How you take in new information, hold onto it in the moment, and retrieve it later
Language and communication - How you process and express language, and how this shows up in academic and everyday contexts
Emotional wellbeing - How anxiety, mood, and stress interact with attention and cognition, explored as part of the whole picture
Evaluations are appropriate for adults and college students who are exploring a late identification of ADHD or simply a clearer understanding of their own neurotype. If you have been assessed before and the results did not fully fit or life has changed significantly since, reevaluations are also available.
Results are always reviewed with you by a psychologist in the context of your full history, strengths, and lived experience. We recognize ADHD as a different, not deficient, cognitive style. This process can also open doors to accommodations for school, work, and standardized testing, so your environment works with your brain, not against it.
Diagnostic ADHD Assessment
Wondering whether ADHD might be part of how your brain works? You're not alone. This assessment is a respectful, structured starting point for finding out.
Our diagnostic ADHD assessment uses a continuous performance test, which measures sustained attention and impulse control in real time, alongside validated ADHD rating scales, to build a multidimensional picture of how your attention works. Results are always reviewed with a psychologist who brings your full history, context, and strengths into the conversation. It can also help you decide whether a more comprehensive evaluation makes sense for you.
Your own experience of your attention, the patterns you've noticed, the strategies you've built, what feels hard, is treated as meaningful data here, not background noise. ADHD reflects a different cognitive style, not a deficit, and our aim is to give you useful, honest information that supports your self-understanding, whatever the outcome.
Learning Disability Assessment
If reading has always felt effortful, writing never comes out the way it sounds in your head, or numbers refuse to stick, you're not lazy, you're not careless, and you're not alone. Learning differences are neurological, not motivational.
Our learning disability evaluation uses a comprehensive battery of cognitive and academic measures to build a clear picture of how your brain processes written language, math, and information and where targeted support can make the biggest difference.
Areas the evaluation explores include:
Reading - How your brain decodes, processes, and makes meaning from text including fluency, comprehension, and the phonological foundations beneath them
Writing - How ideas translate into written form, spelling, composition, and the gap between thinking and output
Math - Number sense, calculation, and reasoning, including why some concepts click and others do not
Cognitive processing - The underlying processing speeds and memory systems that shape how you learn including the strengths in your profile alongside the places that require more support
Whether you're a college student navigating accommodations or an adult finally ready to understand a lifetime of "almost", this evaluation is for you. Reevaluations are available for those whose prior assessments no longer reflect where they are.
Results are reviewed with you, not handed to you. Your psychologist brings your full story into the room so you are connected to supports that work for you, not just a report. We understand learning differences as cognitive variation, not deficit.
Autism Evaluation
Many autistic people especially women and those who learned early to mask, spend decades without a name for their experience. They may have been told they were too sensitive, too intense, or simply difficult. Others were bright enough to compensate, social enough to pass, and exhausted by both.
Our evaluation combines in-depth questionnaires about your sensory experience, social communication, and daily life with a structured, naturalistic conversation through a neuro-affirming lens with a psychologist designed to understand how you actually experience the world, not to compare you against a narrow behavioral template. The process is not a test of how autistic you are. It is a structured conversation about if and/or how you are autistic.
Areas the evaluation explores include:
Social communication - How you connect and communicate including the styles that feel natural, the ones that take effort, and the gap between how you're perceived and how you experience yourself
Sensory experience - How your nervous system processes the world including what feels overwhelming, what feels regulating, and how sensory experience contributes to your success
Interests, patterns, and thinking styles - The things your mind returns to, the routines that help you function, and the ways of thinking that are often autistic strengths and explored as aspects of your neurotype, not symptoms to be managed
Masking and personal history - How you've adapted to environments not built for your neurotype and how years of masking may have shaped how your autistic traits appear to others, including previous clinicians
This evaluation is for adults and college students exploring autism for the first time and for those who have been assessed before and left feeling like the evaluation didn't really see them. You don't need to present in any particular way. Reevaluations are available for those whose prior assessments did not accurately reflect their experience.
Everything you already know about yourself the patterns you've noticed, the things that have always been hard, the ways you've learned to navigate is essential clinical information here, not background noise. Results are always reviewed with you by a psychologist who holds your full history, strengths, and lived experience as central, not incidental, to what they mean. We approach autism as a neurotype, not a deficit. Self-referrals are welcome.