ADHD Evaluations
Thoughtful, comprehensive ADHD online evaluations for adults seeking clarity
ADHD testing can provide the clarity you've been searching for if you've wondered whether ADHD might explain some of your experiences. Many successful adults discover later in life that their brains simply work differently, and understanding this difference can be transformative. My approach to ADHD evaluations is grounded in a nuanced understanding of neurodivergence and how attentional and nervous system differences show up in real life, a perspective I’ve also shared in national media, including Forbes.
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Maybe you've wondered about ADHD for years. Maybe someone recently suggested it and suddenly pieces of your life started making more sense. Or maybe you've always managed to keep up, but you're increasingly exhausted by how much effort it takes.
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I provide comprehensive online ADHD evaluations for adults, with particular expertise in working with women, high-achieving adults, and people who have spent years masking or compensating for their difficulties.
Because sometimes the cost of continuing to push through really matters.
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Many of the people I work with are high-achieving, insightful, and deeply capable, yet privately exhausted from holding everything together. My approach goes beyond surface-level symptoms to understand how attention, emotion, executive functioning, and nervous system regulation interact in your daily life.
ADHD doesn't always look the way people expect
Many adults with ADHD don't look obviously distracted, disorganized, or impulsive. You may have learned to compensate through perfectionism, overpreparing, rigid systems, urgency, people-pleasing, working twice as hard, or sheer determination. From the outside, you may look successful and capable. Inside, you may feel like you're constantly trying to stay one step ahead of things falling apart.
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You might recognize experiences like:
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Doing well professionally while struggling to manage everyday tasks at home
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Procrastinating until urgency finally creates enough momentum to act
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Creating elaborate systems to stay organized, but struggling to maintain them
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Feeling chronically overwhelmed by tasks that seem simple for other people
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Losing track of time or consistently underestimating how long things will take
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Experiencing emotional intensity or difficulty shifting out of strong emotions
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Working incredibly hard to compensate for forgetfulness or inconsistency
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Holding everything together publicly and crashing when you're finally alone
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Reaching adulthood, or burnout, before realizing how much effort you've been expending just to keep up
For many women and high-masking adults, these patterns were overlooked earlier in life because they didn't fit traditional stereotypes of ADHD. A thoughtful evaluation looks beyond those stereotypes.
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Why is My Approach Different?
​I look beyond what is visible from the outside
Being successful doesn't rule out ADHD. One of the things I pay particular attention to is the difference between outward functioning and the internal cost required to maintain it.
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You may meet deadlines,but only through intense anxiety and last-minute urgency.
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You may be organized, but because you've developed elaborate systems you're afraid to stop using.
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You may have excelled academically, but at the expense of sleep, relationships, or your own well-being.
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You may appear calm while internally managing constant mental activity.
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Understanding those compensatory strategies is especially important when evaluating women and adults who have spent years masking their difficulties. The goal isn't simply to ask, "Can you do it?" It's to understand what it takes for you to do it.
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Multiple data points, not one test score
There isn't one test that determines whether an adult has ADHD. That's why I use a multi-method approach and integrate information from multiple sources rather than relying heavily on any single questionnaire, score, or snapshot of your functioning.
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Our evaluation will include:
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An in-depth clinical interview
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Developmental and educational history
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Review of current functioning across work, relationships, home, and daily life
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Evidence-based ADHD measures
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Assessment of executive functioning and functional impact
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Exploration of masking and compensatory strategies
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Self-report and, when available, collateral information
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Assessment of emotional and nervous-system regulation
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Review of relevant records when available
Each piece provides information, and my job is to integrate those pieces into a coherent picture of you. This is particularly important for high-masking adults, whose test scores or outward functioning may not fully capture how hard they are working to compensate.
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I consider ADHD and what else could be going on
Difficulty concentrating doesn't automatically mean ADHD. Anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic stress, burnout, sleep difficulties, autism, and other concerns can overlap with ADHD or affect attention and executive functioning in similar ways.
Sometimes more than one thing is happening at once. A good evaluation shouldn't begin with the assumption that ADHD is the answer. We'll look carefully at your broader mental health history and current experiences so that I can consider alternative explanations, co-occurring concerns, and the ways different factors may be interacting. The result is an evaluation that makes sense of your lived experience, not just your data.
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If the findings support ADHD, I'll explain why. If they don't, we'll talk about what does seem to explain your experience and what I recommend next. The goal isn't to leave with a particular diagnosis. The goal is to leave with greater clarity, so that you have more information about how to move forward in a sustainable way.
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Looking beyond surface-level symptoms
ADHD, anxiety, depression, burnout, and emotional dysregulation frequently overlap. Rather than defaulting to labels that don’t quite fit, I take time to carefully differentiate what’s actually driving your difficulties.
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This includes exploring:
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Internalized ADHD symptoms (mental restlessness, overthinking, time blindness)
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Emotional dysregulation and rejection sensitivity
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Masking and overcompensation strategies
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Sensory sensitivities and nervous system patterns
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Executive functioning strengths and challenges
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Social communication patterns that may not be obvious on the surface
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Gender- and neurodiversity-informed
Women and gender-diverse individuals are frequently underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed because their symptoms don’t align with traditional models. I intentionally assess factors that are often overlooked, including:
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The impact of hormonal shifts and menstrual cycles on attention, mood, and regulation
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Chronic masking, perfectionism, and people-pleasing
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Anxiety or depression that develops secondary to untreated ADHD
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Emotional intensity that reflects regulation differences rather than personality pathology
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Reports That Are Meant to Be Used
Clients often tell me, “This is the first time I’ve felt truly understood.”
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Reports are intentionally written to be:
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Clear and respectful for clients to read
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Clinically useful for psychiatric providers
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Specific enough for academic disability offices
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Practical for workplace accommodations
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Actionable for therapists and coaches
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Rather than generic recommendations, you’ll receive tailored guidance that translates findings into real-world supports across medication, therapy, school, work, and daily life.
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Depth Over Volume
I see fewer clients so I can do this work well. That means:
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Extended clinical interviews
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Thoughtful measure selection
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Careful integration of findings
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Detailed feedback sessions
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Time to answer your questions
This level of care is especially important for people who have spent years being told they are “just anxious,” “too sensitive,” or “not trying hard enough.”
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An Evaluation That Is Therapeutic, Too
I approach evaluations through a therapeutic assessment framework. That means assessment isn't something that's simply done to you while you wait for someone to give you an answer at the end. The process is collaborative and designed to help you develop insight and understanding along the way.
Who is this Evaluation Especially Helpful for?
This approach may be a particularly good fit if you:
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Are an adult wondering whether you have ADHD
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Are a woman whose difficulties weren't recognized earlier in life
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Have always been described as bright, capable, or high-achieving but privately struggle to keep up
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Have developed extensive systems to compensate for difficulties with attention or executive functioning
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Have been told you're "just anxious," overly sensitive, lazy, unmotivated, or need to try harder
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Find that your outward success doesn't reflect the amount of effort happening underneath
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Have reached a point where your old coping strategies aren't working anymore
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Are experiencing burnout or chronic overwhelm
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Have received other mental health diagnoses but still feel like something is missing
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Want an evaluation that considers your whole experience rather than simply producing a test score
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Want practical recommendations and accommodations, not just a diagnosis
What Your ADHD Evaluation Includes
​Evidence-Based Assessment
I'll select measures based on your individual presentation and integrate multiple sources of information related to ADHD symptoms, executive functioning, emotional regulation, and real-world impact. You'll complete these ahead of our clinical interview, so that I have time to review them and have them help me guide my questions.
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Comprehensive Clinical Interview (2-3 hours)
We'll meet via secure video for 2-3 hours and take time to understand your developmental, educational, occupational, medical, relational, and mental health history, not simply run through a symptom checklist.
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Thoughtful Differential Diagnosis
After we meet, I will review all of the information, and carefully consider anxiety, depression, trauma, burnout, autism traits, and other factors that may overlap with or contribute to what you're experiencing.
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Comprehensive Written Report
You'll receive a detailed report that brings everything together in understandable language.
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Your report includes:
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Findings from the evaluation
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Diagnostic conclusions and the reasoning behind them
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A personalized explanation of your strengths and areas of difficulty
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Individualized treatment and support recommendations
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Academic, workplace, or testing accommodations when clinically appropriate
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Recommendations for additional evaluation or care when indicated
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I put significant time into my reports because I want them to be useful, not simply documentation that sits in a file. They are written for you to understand while also providing information that can be useful to therapists, prescribers, schools, disability offices, and other members of your care team.
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Dedicated Feedback Session
I won't simply send you a report and leave you to interpret it on your own. We'll meet to go through your results together in a 50 minute feedback session. I'll explain how I arrived at my conclusions, answer your questions, and help you understand what the findings mean for your everyday life.
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Receiving a diagnosis, or learning that a different explanation fits better, can bring up a lot. You'll have space to process it. We'll also discuss recommendations and concrete next steps so you know where to go from here.
What You Leave With
Sometimes the most meaningful outcome of an evaluation isn't just finally being able to say, "I have ADHD." It's being able to say: "This makes sense now."
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You'll leave with a clearer understanding of your cognitive and emotional patterns, the strategies you've developed to navigate them, and what may make life more sustainable moving forward.
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When ADHD is the appropriate diagnosis, you'll have documentation and individualized recommendations to help you access treatment and support.
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And when ADHD isn't the best explanation, you won't simply leave with a "no." You'll leave with my clinical understanding of what may better explain your experience and recommendations for what to do next.
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Investment
Comprehensive Adult ADHD Evaluation: $1,950
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Your flat-rate fee includes:
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The clinical evaluation appointment
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Assessment measures and materials
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Scoring and interpretation
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Integration of multiple data sources
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Comprehensive written report
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Individualized recommendations and accommodations, when appropriate
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Dedicated feedback session
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HSA/FSA accepted. A superbill can also be provided for clients who would like to seek possible out-of-network reimbursement.
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Payment is divided into two installments:
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50% before your initial evaluation appointment
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50% before your feedback session and release of the written report
Sometimes the most meaningful outcome of an evaluation isn’t the diagnosis, it’s finally having an explanation that fits.
What if I'm not sure whether I need an autism, ADHD, or 'AuDHD' evaluation?
You don't need to have it figured out before reaching out. ADHD and autism can overlap in meaningful ways, and for some people, traits of one can mask or compensate for traits of the other.
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If you're primarily wondering about autism, masking, sensory experiences, social communication, or longstanding patterns of feeling different, you may want to learn more about my Adult Autism Evaluations.
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If you recognize yourself in both ADHD and autism, or find that neither one fully explains your experience on its own, an 'AuDHD' Evaluation may be a better fit. Part of my role is helping you determine which questions are worth exploring. You don't need to choose the "right" diagnosis before we begin. You can learn more about the differences between the evaluations here.
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Getting Started
I offer a brief, no-cost phone or video consultation to ensure this evaluation is a good fit before moving forward.
If this description resonates, you don’t need to have everything figured out to reach out. Curiosity is enough to begin, and we can talk through any questions or concerns on our call, so that you can make an informed decision.
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ADHD Evaluations FAQ
(Frequently Asked Questions)
What states do you provide ADHD evaluations in? What is PSYPACT?
As a licensed clinical psychologist and PSYPACT-authorized provider, I offer online ADHD evaluations to eligible adults located in PSYPACT-participating states, including Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, and Virginia, among others.
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PSYPACT is an interstate compact that allows authorized psychologists to provide telepsychology across participating states. You must be physically located in a participating PSYPACT state at the time of your evaluation. If you’re unsure whether I can work with you, feel free to reach out or check the current PSYPACT list.
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Do you accept insurance for ADHD evaluations?
I do not participate directly with insurance plans for ADHD evaluations. Instead, I offer a flat-rate fee of $1,950, divided into two payments: one before your evaluation appointment and one before your feedback session and release of the written report.
As an out-of-network provider, I can provide a detailed superbill and access to Reimbursify if you would like to seek possible reimbursement from your insurance plan. Coverage varies, so I recommend contacting your insurer before scheduling to ask about your out-of-network benefits for psychological evaluation and testing.
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You may want to ask specifically about coverage for CPT codes commonly used in my evaluations, including 90791, 96130, 96131, 96136, and 96137.
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How long does the ADHD evaluation process take?
Before your evaluation appointment, you’ll complete several questionnaires and measures that I review in advance. This helps me tailor our clinical interview to your history, experiences, and specific questions.
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The clinical interview itself typically lasts 2–3 hours. Afterward, I integrate the information from your interview, assessment measures, history, and any relevant records or collateral information into a comprehensive written report.
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Reports are typically completed within 1–3 weeks, followed by a dedicated feedback session to review your results, answer questions, and discuss next steps. You’re welcome to ask about my current turnaround time during your free consultation.
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Can adult ADHD evaluations be done online?
Yes. I provide adult ADHD evaluations through secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth. The assessment process is specifically designed for an online format and includes standardized measures, an in-depth clinical interview, review of relevant history and records, and a dedicated feedback session.
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Meeting virtually also allows you to complete the clinical interview from a private, familiar environment, which many clients appreciate.
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How is your ADHD evaluation different from a quick online ADHD test or checklist?
A comprehensive ADHD evaluation goes well beyond a symptom checklist or brief online screening. Standardized measures are one part of the process, but they’re interpreted alongside an in-depth clinical interview, developmental history, current functioning, compensatory strategies, and other factors that could contribute to ADHD-like symptoms.
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The goal isn’t simply to determine whether you meet criteria for ADHD. It’s to understand the broader picture of how you function, what may be contributing to your difficulties, and what kinds of treatment, accommodations, or support may actually help.
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What happens after I receive my ADHD evaluation results?
After your evaluation, we’ll meet for a dedicated feedback session to review your results in detail. I’ll explain how I arrived at my conclusions, how the findings relate to your experiences, and what I recommend moving forward.
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You’ll receive a comprehensive written report that includes your results, diagnostic conclusions, individualized recommendations, and recommendations for academic, workplace, or testing accommodations when clinically appropriate. You can share your report with therapists, medication providers, schools, disability offices, or other members of your care team as appropriate. With your written authorization, I can also communicate directly with your providers when helpful.
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Some clients choose to schedule an optional integration session after they’ve had time to process their results. This provides additional space to discuss recommendations, learn more about ADHD, or think through how to apply the findings in everyday life. Optional integration sessions are billed at my standard 50-minute therapy rate of $300.
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What if I’m curious about ADHD but I’m not sure I need a formal evaluation?
A formal evaluation is only one way to explore questions about ADHD or neurodivergence. The right service depends on what you’re hoping to get from the process.
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If you’re looking for diagnostic clarification, a comprehensive written report, or recommendations for treatment or accommodations, an evaluation may be the best fit. If your primary goal is to understand yourself more deeply, explore patterns in your life, or work through a particular concern, therapy or a therapy intensive may be a better fit, even if questions about ADHD, autism, or neurodivergence are part of that work.
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I’ve created a Which Service Is Right for Me? guide to help you compare your options. We can also talk through what you’re looking for during a free consultation.
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Will an ADHD evaluation tell me if I have anxiety, autism, or another condition?
Part of a comprehensive ADHD evaluation is considering other conditions or experiences that can overlap with ADHD or contribute to similar difficulties. Depending on your history and presenting concerns, this may include anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic stress, burnout, sleep difficulties, autism traits, learning concerns, or other factors affecting attention and executive functioning.
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The goal is thoughtful differential diagnosis, not assuming that every difficulty with attention, motivation, or organization is ADHD. If the evaluation suggests that additional or more specialized assessment would be helpful, I’ll discuss those recommendations with you.
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How should I prepare for my adult ADHD evaluation?
Before your appointment, you’ll receive questionnaires and assessment measures through my secure client portal to complete in advance. This allows me to review the information before we meet and tailor our clinical interview accordingly.
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If available, it can also be helpful to gather relevant records such as previous psychological evaluations, school records, report cards, or other documentation from earlier stages of your life. Don’t worry if you don’t have these records; we can still proceed with the evaluation.
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It may also be useful to reflect on how attention, organization, time management, task initiation, emotional regulation, and other concerns have shown up across different periods of your life and in settings such as school, work, home, and relationships.
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What if my ADHD symptoms are mostly internal or I’ve learned to mask them?
ADHD doesn’t always look like obvious hyperactivity, disorganization, or poor performance. Many adults, particularly women, high-achieving adults, and people diagnosed later in life, develop strategies that help them function successfully while requiring enormous effort behind the scenes.
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You might rely on perfectionism, overpreparing, rigid systems, anxiety, urgency, or working significantly harder to compensate for difficulties with attention or executive functioning. ADHD may also show up as internal restlessness, difficulty initiating or switching tasks, time blindness, emotional intensity, or mental exhaustion.
My evaluation considers both outward functioning and the effort required to maintain it. Masking and compensatory strategies are part of the broader clinical picture, which is one reason I don’t rely on a single measure, test score, or stereotype of what ADHD is supposed to look like.