Services

Psychological Assessment

A psychological assessment uses interviews, clinical observations, and tests to evaluate and provide detailed information about your personality, emotional well-being, intelligence, learning characteristics, academic skills, coping styles a and behaviors. The tests that I use will depend upon the types of diagnostic or referral questions or what you would like to learn about yourself.

More about psychological testing in the next section.

Counseling for Children

Learning challenges, divorce, family conflicts, abuse, physical injuries, and any other traumas can all lead to emotional and behavioral problems in children and adolescents.

You may notice stress showing up in your child in a number of ways, such as hyperactivity, bed wetting, excessive body aches, sleep disturbances, extreme fears, tantrums, withdrawal, and school failure to name a few. As a parent, it is absolutely normal to have concern over any and all of the behaviors listed above. Let’s chat to see how we can help your child together.

Counseling for Adults

It is normal to experience growing anxiety and stress as life progresses and responsibilities continue to mount. Perhaps you need help navigating the current state of your life or have specific traumas to work through. Or, you may be seeking help with undiagnosed learning difficulties that are becoming unmanageable in your personal and/or professional life.

Marriage + Family Therapy

Through collaborative counseling, I can help address underlying issues and be a mediation tool in difficult conversations with those you love most.

Addiction Management

Substance abuse, sexual addictions, relationship codependency, control and power issues, and anger management are all commons areas of treatment in my adult clients.

A psychological assessment uses interviews, clinical observations, and tests to evaluate and provide detailed information about your personality, emotional well-being, intelligence, learning characteristics, academic skills, coping styles a and behaviors. The tests that I use will depend upon the types of diagnostic or referral questions or what you would like to learn about yourself.

Why should I complete a psychological assessment?

If you need more information about yourself or for your child, that assessment can be helpful. This assessment can offer a detailed picture about what is causing difficulties in your life or how you can use your strengths to achieve your personal goals. The assessment can help find answers to why your child is struggling in school.

What is involved in completing a psychological assessment?

This psychological assessment process involves four steps: intake session, testing session, scoring and interpretation of the results, feedback session and written report. During the intake session Dr. Martin will meet with you to determine your referral questions and gather background information. The testing may take 2 to 8 hours and is usually spread over several weeks. I may also gather information from teachers, parents or significant others.

I will then score the tests and create thorough report of the results, which usually takes two to four weeks. My report will provide a description of the results, diagnostic impression, and treatment recommendations. In the feedback session, I will go over the report, making sure you understand the results, and answer all of your questions.

What are the fees for a psychological assessment?

The cost is determined by the number of hours needed to complete the assessment process. The rate per hour is $240 for the initial session and $190 for the rest of the sessions. The cost for the initial assessment can range from $1100 to $2000. Then the written report can be an additional $580 to $1500.

Insurance may cover some of the cost excluding co-pays, deductibles, and coinsurance is. Please contact your insurance company verify reimbursement or psychological assessment costs. It is your responsibility to pay for fees not covered by insurance.

The initial procedure code is 90791, individual session-90837, testing-96136, 96137,96130, 96131-- it 96133 and 96146.

Psychological assessments very lengthy and the in-depth process it takes to complete such an assessment should be taken very seriously, and that makes the assessments costly.

 What are the types of psychological assessment?

Academic Placement and 504 or IEP Educational Planning-- this type of assessment seeks to identify any cognitive, behavioral, or emotional disabilities that may interfere with your or your child’s ability to learn effectively. This assessment will provide academic accommodations and psychological recommendations that will improve academic success in the best access to the learning environment.

ADHD--this type of assessment is to determine whether you or your child meets the diagnostic criteria for the different types of ADHD disorders-- Inattentive Type, Impulsive- Hyperactive Type, or Combined Type. Recommendations will be given to help reduce the symptoms related to attention problems, impulsivity, organization, study skills, and hyperactivity.

Autism-- using interviews, rating scales, parent and teacher observation, as well as testing information, this type of evaluation is looking for a child who has challenges with communication and social interaction. For children with ASD, it’s hard to “connect” with or predict the reactions of other people, read social cues, make eye contact, or have a conversation. They might not begin to speak as early as other children do. They might also have a hard time with the muscle skills needed for things like playing sports or drawing and writing.

We are also looking to see if there are restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior. Children with ASD might rock their bodies, repeat phrases, or become upset with changes in their routines. They’re often deeply interested in one subject. They also have sensory issues.

Adult Autism--The problem is, there’s no established procedure for diagnosing ASD in adults. There is no standardized test for adult autism. One reason an adult ASD diagnosis can be tricky is that you’ve probably become very good at managing--or even hiding--your symptoms. 

I may use items from a children’s checklist, because many of the symptoms are the same, like repetitive behavior, obsession with daily routine, difficulty with social interaction, increased sensitivity to sounds, smells, touch, and other things in the environment. You may display unusual behaviors. 

We may use instruments that assess developmental pathology in four symptom areas such as pump language, social relatedness, sensory-motor, and circumscribed interests. 

 Learning Abilities or Learning Disabilities--this type of assessment will provide information about your cognitive processing, such as memory, learning characteristics, working memory, processing speed, and problem-solving abilities. This assessment be helpful in determining how you or your child can overcome problems, also identify strengths, you or your child achieve success at school or work. This type of evaluation can also be for children who are gifted or for early entrance evaluation.

Personality/Social-Emotional Characteristics--this type of assessment can be used to determine how your personality and emotions influence your functioning, problem-solving and relationships.

I do not do:

I do not complete assessments for court or legal processing, such as child custody or competency evaluations.