If you’ve always struggled to start tasks, lose things constantly, feel restless or impulsive, have racing thoughts, or find time management nearly impossible, an ADHD assessment can provide clarity and direction for treatment.
Cost: $1,800 flat fee (includes all sessions, report, and feedback)
Payment Options:
- Full payment at intake
- 50/50 split: $900 at intake, $900 before feedback
- 3-payment plan: $600 + $600 + $600 (spread across sessions)
Timeline: 2–4 weeks from first appointment to receiving your report.
Format: Virtual (Doxy)
What You’ll Receive:
- Comprehensive written report (10–15 pages, PDF + printed copy if desired)
- Letter of diagnosis for documentation
- Recommendations summary (1-page summary for employers, schools, doctors, etc.)
- Comprehensive developmental and life history interview: We’ll explore your childhood development, family history, school experience, work history, relationships, and current challenges. I’ll ask about attention, impulse control, emotional regulation, organization, time management, and how ADHD symptoms have shaped your life.
- ADHD-specific questionnaires: You’ll complete validated self-report measures (CAARS-S, ASRS) that assess attention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, and executive functioning.
- The Conners CATA Online is a computerized listening task for ages 8 and up that evaluates how consistently a person can pay attention and respond to sounds over time. It offers detailed information on auditory attention, impulsivity, and how each ear processes sounds, which helps clarify listening‑based focus difficulties that may be related to ADHD.
- The Conners CPT 3 Online is a 14‑minute computerized visual task that measures how well someone can stay focused, think before acting, and keep a steady response over time. It provides age‑based scores on inattention, impulsivity, and sustained attention, adding objective data to support ADHD diagnosis alongside interviews and questionnaires.
- Executive functioning assessment: We’ll explore how ADHD affects your real-world functioning: time management, organization, planning, task initiation, working memory, and emotional regulation. This helps me to understand the true impact on your life.
- Comorbidity screening: ADHD often co-occurs with anxiety, depression, autism, and OCD. We’ll screen for these to get a complete picture.
- Adaptive functioning assessment: How do ADHD symptoms affect your daily life, relationships, work performance, and independence?
- Feedback session – We’ll review your results together, discuss what ADHD means for you, and talk about next steps (medication, therapy, coaching, accommodations, lifestyle changes).
- Comprehensive written report: You’ll receive a detailed 8–15 page report that:
- Explains the assessment process and findings
- Documents how you meet (or do not meet) DSM-5 ADHD diagnostic criteria
- Describes your ADHD profile (inattentive, hyperactive-impulsive, or combined type)
- Discusses strengths and challenges specific to your presentation
- Provides concrete recommendations for treatment, accommodations, and management strategies
Many adults have both autism and ADHD. A combined assessment explores both presentations, how they interact, and what that means for you.
Between Sessions:
You’ll complete self-report measures at home (about 45 minutes to an hour total). I’ll score and begin analyzing your initial responses.
- Attention: Do you hyperfocus on things you love but can’t focus on boring tasks? Miss details? Get distracted easily?
- Impulse control: Do you interrupt people, blurt things out, act without thinking, struggle with delayed gratification?
- Executive functioning: How are you with planning, organizing, starting tasks, finishing tasks, time estimation?
- Emotional regulation: Do you feel emotions intensely? Struggle to calm down when upset? Have emotional “meltdowns”?
- Hyperactivity: Do you fidget, feel restless, need to move? (This looks different in adults than kids.)
We’ll also explore how you’ve adapted or compensated over the years, what works for you, and what you’ve tried that hasn’t helped.
Between Sessions:
I’ll score the remaining measures and compile the results. I’ll review collateral information (school records, prior evaluations) if provided.
- Adults who’ve always struggled with focus, organization, or impulse control. You’ve tried everything and nothing seems to stick. You wonder if ADHD is the missing piece.
- High-achievers who feel like they’re “faking it”. You’ve compensated well enough to succeed, but you’re exhausted and everything requires massive effort.
- Women questioning ADHD: Girls are often missed because they internalize hyperactivity or develop different coping strategies. ADHD presents differently in women.
- People with anxiety or depression who’ve been treated but still struggle. Sometimes ADHD is the root cause or a comorbid factor that hasn’t been addressed.
- People questioning ADHD vs. autism vs. trauma. Your symptoms might fit multiple diagnoses. This assessment helps clarify what’s actually going on.
- If you’re in active crisis: If you’re actively suicidal or in severe distress, I’ll refer you to emergency services. Assessment can wait.
- If you need comprehensive neuropsychological testing, if you need IQ testing or learning disability evaluation, I can refer you to a neuropsychologist.
- If you’re seeking a diagnosis to avoid responsibility: If you’re hoping ADHD “explains everything” and requires no personal change, that’s worth examining first.
ADHD is underdiagnosed in adults, particularly in women, people of color, and those who’ve learned to compensate. The result: people spend decades thinking they’re lazy, disorganized, irresponsible, or “broken”, when really their brain works differently and just needs the right support.
A good ADHD assessment isn’t about labeling you as deficient. It’s about understanding how your brain actually works and building a life that works for *you*—not fighting against your neurology.
ADHD also frequently co-occurs with anxiety, depression, and trauma, so a thorough assessment helps clarify what’s actually driving your struggles and what kind of treatment will actually help.
1. Email or call to say you’re interested, or reach out via Simple Practice: https://jade-vega.clientsecure.me/contact-widget
2. Schedule a brief consultation (15 min, free) to discuss your situation and answer questions
3. If you want to proceed, complete intake paperwork
4. We schedule Session 1 within 1–2 weeks
for your free consultation.