Adult ADHD, PTSD & Mental Health Assessments
You know something is getting in the way. You just aren't sure what it is.
ADHD? Trauma? PTSD? Burnout? Anxiety? Depression? Executive dysfunction? Or several things overlapping at once?
Strong Self Psychotherapy offers comprehensive clinical and diagnostic assessments for adults who want more than another online quiz or symptom checklist. The goal is to understand the whole picture - your symptoms, history, functioning, strengths, and the patterns affecting your life.
Most assessments can be completed virtually through secure telehealth.
Get Clarity About What’s Really Going On
Mental health symptoms rarely fit neatly into one box.
Difficulty concentrating can be ADHD but it can also be caused by trauma, anxiety, depression, chronic stress, burnout, or poor sleep.
Emotional reactivity can be related to PTSD, ADHD, anxiety, prolonged stress, or other underlying concerns.
And high-functioning adults can compensate for significant difficulties for years before something finally stops working.
A comprehensive clinical assessment goes beyond identifying symptoms. It looks at how those symptoms developed, how they affect your functioning, what else may explain them, and what the findings mean for treatment and next steps.
Adult ADHD Diagnostic Evaluation
$950 | Approximately 3–4 hours | Virtual
Maybe you've spent years being told you're scattered, inconsistent, forgetful, disorganized, or simply need to try harder.
Meanwhile, you've learned how to compensate.
This is especially common among intelligent, successful, and high-achieving adults whose ability to perform has hidden how much effort it takes to keep everything together.
A comprehensive adult ADHD evaluation looks beyond whether you have trouble paying attention. It examines your symptoms, developmental history, executive functioning, current impairment, and other conditions that can look like, or occur alongside, ADHD.
Your evaluation may include:
Comprehensive clinical and diagnostic interview
Developmental and educational history
Standardized adult ADHD measures
Executive function assessment
Attention, organization, task initiation, working memory, time management, and emotional regulation
Informant or collateral information when clinically appropriate and available
Screening for trauma, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, substance use, and other potential contributors
Differential diagnosis
Scoring and interpretation of results
Individual feedback appointment
Written clinical report with diagnostic impressions and recommendations
Time commitment: Approximately 3–4 hours of client participation, generally divided between the diagnostic interview, assessment measures, and feedback appointment. Some measures may be completed independently between appointments.
Additional clinician time is spent scoring and interpreting results, completing differential diagnosis, integrating findings, and preparing your written report.
Available virtually in California, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Vermont, Maine, Ohio, Utah, and Idaho.
Comprehensive Trauma & PTSD Evaluation
$850 | Approximately 3–4 hours | Virtual
Trauma doesn't always look like flashbacks and nightmares.
It can look like hypervigilance. Irritability. Emotional shutdown. Avoidance. Sleep problems. Difficulty concentrating. Dissociation. Relationship problems. Physical reactivity. Or feeling like your nervous system never completely shuts off.
A comprehensive PTSD and trauma assessment is designed to determine whether your symptoms are consistent with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or another trauma-related condition while also identifying other factors that may be contributing to what you're experiencing.
Your evaluation may include:
Comprehensive clinical and trauma-history interview
Assessment of traumatic-event exposure
Structured PTSD diagnostic assessment
PTSD symptom and severity measures
Dissociation assessment when clinically indicated
Screening for depression, anxiety, sleep concerns, substance use, and other overlapping conditions
Differential diagnosis
Scoring, interpretation, and integration of findings
Individual feedback appointment
Written clinical report with diagnostic impressions and treatment recommendations
Time commitment: Approximately 3–4 hours of client participation, generally divided between the clinical interview, assessment measures, and feedback appointment.
Additional clinician time is spent reviewing, scoring, interpreting, and integrating the findings and preparing your written report.
Available virtually in California, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Vermont, Maine, Ohio, Utah, and Idaho.
Diagnostic Clarification Evaluation
$850 | Approximately 3–4 hours | Virtual
Sometimes the problem isn't that nobody has given you a diagnosis. It's that you've been given too many of them.
Anxiety. Depression. ADHD. PTSD. OCD. Bipolar disorder. Burnout. Trauma. Personality disorder.
Symptoms overlap, and a checklist alone doesn't tell the whole story.
A diagnostic clarification evaluation takes a broader look at your symptoms, history, previous diagnoses, treatment experiences, and current functioning to help determine what explanation, or combination of explanations, best fits what you're experiencing.
This may be particularly helpful if treatment hasn't worked as expected, your diagnosis has changed repeatedly, or your symptoms don't seem to fit neatly into one category.
Your evaluation may include:
Extended clinical and diagnostic interview
Review of mental health and treatment history
Review of previous diagnoses
Targeted standardized measures selected according to your concerns
Trauma and dissociation assessment when indicated
Depression and anxiety assessment
ADHD and executive function screening when indicated
Sleep and substance-use screening when relevant
Differential diagnosis
Scoring and interpretation of findings
Individual feedback appointment
Written clinical report with diagnostic impressions and treatment recommendations
Time commitment: Approximately 3–4 hours of client participation. The exact amount of time will depend on the complexity of your history and the clinical questions being evaluated.
Additional clinician time is spent reviewing relevant records, scoring and interpreting measures, completing differential diagnosis, integrating findings, and preparing your written report.
Available virtually in California, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Vermont, Maine, Ohio, Utah, and Idaho.
Executive Function & Attention Assessment
$650 | Approximately 2–3 hours | Virtual
You don't need an ADHD diagnosis to struggle with executive functioning.
You may know exactly what you need to do and still have difficulty getting yourself to do it.
An executive function and attention assessment examines patterns involving organization, attention, working memory, planning, task initiation, time management, procrastination, emotional regulation, and follow-through.
This assessment may be helpful if you're capable and motivated but consistently feel overwhelmed by managing the demands of everyday life.
Common concerns include:
Starting tasks
Finishing what you start
Organization
Time management
Chronic procrastination
Working memory
Prioritizing
Maintaining attention
Shifting between tasks
Emotional regulation
Feeling chronically overwhelmed
Your assessment may include:
Clinical interview
Standardized executive function measures
Attention and ADHD symptom measures when indicated
Functional impairment assessment
Screening for mood, anxiety, trauma, sleep, and other contributing factors
Scoring and interpretation of results
Individual feedback appointment
Written clinical summary with individualized recommendations
Time commitment: Approximately 2–3 hours of client participation, including the clinical interview, assessment measures, and feedback appointment.
Additional clinician time is spent scoring and interpreting results and preparing your written summary.
Available virtually in California, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Vermont, Maine, Ohio, Utah, and Idaho.
Burnout & Occupational Functioning Assessment
$650 | Approximately 2–3 hours | Virtual
There is a difference between being tired and being depleted.
This assessment is designed for professionals working in demanding, high-responsibility environments who are experiencing changes in motivation, concentration, emotional regulation, performance, relationships, physical or emotional exhaustion, or their ability to recover when they're off the clock.
This may be particularly relevant for executives and leaders, physicians and healthcare professionals, attorneys, engineers, first responders, military and veterans, business owners, and others working in high-stress careers.
The goal isn't simply to tell you that you're burned out. It's to understand what's driving the deterioration and what needs to change.
Your assessment may examine:
Occupational stress and burnout
Emotional exhaustion
Work-related functioning
Depression and anxiety
Trauma exposure and traumatic stress when relevant
Sleep and recovery
Executive functioning and concentration
Emotional regulation
Substance use when relevant
Work-life boundaries
Other factors contributing to declining functioning
Time commitment: Approximately 2–3 hours of client participation, including the clinical interview, assessment measures, and feedback appointment.
Additional clinician time is spent scoring and interpreting results and developing individualized recommendations.
Available virtually in California, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Vermont, Maine, Ohio, Utah, and Idaho.
Not Sure You Need a Full Diagnostic Evaluation?
Not everyone needs a comprehensive diagnostic assessment. Sometimes you already understand the larger picture and want focused information about one specific area of your mental health or functioning.
Strong Self Psychotherapy also offers brief clinical screenings and focused assessments. These services can help identify symptoms, severity, patterns, and areas that may warrant further evaluation or treatment.
A clinical screening is not the same as a comprehensive diagnostic evaluation.
If your goal is to determine whether you meet diagnostic criteria for ADHD, PTSD, or another mental health disorder, a comprehensive diagnostic evaluation is the appropriate service.
Anxiety & Depression Screening
$175 | Approximately 60 minutes | Virtual
A focused assessment of current anxiety and depressive symptoms, symptom severity, functional impact, and related concerns.
Includes clinical interview, standardized screening measures, feedback, and recommendations.
Anger & Emotional Regulation Assessment
$175 | Approximately 60 minutes | Virtual
Designed for adults experiencing irritability, anger, impulsive reactions, emotional intensity, or difficulty recovering after becoming emotionally activated.
The assessment explores patterns, triggers, emotional regulation, and factors that may be contributing to these reactions.
Includes clinical interview, focused assessment measures, feedback, and recommendations.
Parenting Stress Assessment
$175 | Approximately 60 minutes | Virtual
A focused assessment of parenting-related stress, emotional exhaustion, overwhelm, coping, and the impact of parenting demands on overall functioning.
Includes clinical interview, standardized screening measures when appropriate, feedback, and recommendations.
General Mental Health & Functioning Screening
$225 | Approximately 75–90 minutes | Virtual
Not sure where to start?
This broader screening examines several areas of emotional and behavioral functioning to identify symptoms or patterns that may warrant additional attention.
Depending on your concerns, the screening may examine depression, anxiety, trauma symptoms, emotional regulation, sleep, stress, substance use, and overall functioning.
You'll receive feedback about the findings and recommendations regarding possible next steps.
This service is not intended to provide a comprehensive differential diagnosis or replace a full diagnostic evaluation.
How Online Mental Health Assessments Work
A clinical assessment is more than completing questionnaires.
Your evaluation begins with an in-depth clinical interview so your results can be understood within the context of your history, current circumstances, symptoms, strengths, and day-to-day functioning.
Standardized and validated measures are selected based on the questions we're trying to answer rather than giving every client the same battery of tests.
Many assessment measures can be completed securely online from home.
After the assessment is completed, your results are scored and interpreted alongside the clinical information gathered during the evaluation.
You'll then meet for an individual feedback appointment where we'll walk through what was found, what the findings mean, and what I recommend moving forward.
Comprehensive diagnostic evaluations also include a written clinical report summarizing the evaluation, diagnostic impressions, and recommendations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I get an assessment without starting therapy?
Yes. Clinical assessments and diagnostic evaluations are available as stand-alone services. You do not have to become an ongoing therapy client of Strong Self Psychotherapy.
You may complete your assessment and continue treatment with your existing therapist, psychiatrist, physician, or other healthcare provider.
With your written authorization, your assessment report can also be shared with your treating providers to help coordinate care and inform treatment planning.
Can ADHD and PTSD assessments be completed online?
In many cases, yes.
Most clinical interviews and assessment measures used by Strong Self Psychotherapy can be completed through secure telehealth.
Whether your assessment can be completed entirely virtually depends on the purpose of the evaluation, the measures required, your physical location at the time of service, and whether remote assessment is clinically appropriate.
If the evaluation you need requires testing or services that cannot appropriately be completed virtually, this will be discussed before scheduling the full evaluation.
Will I receive a diagnosis?
When you complete a comprehensive diagnostic evaluation, the purpose is to determine whether your symptoms and clinical history support a mental health diagnosis and to consider other possible explanations for your symptoms.
A particular diagnosis is never guaranteed. Your diagnostic impressions will be based on the complete evaluation and the clinical evidence available.
Focused screenings are not comprehensive diagnostic evaluations and are not intended to establish a diagnosis.
Will I receive a written report?
Yes. Comprehensive diagnostic evaluations include a written clinical report summarizing the evaluation, relevant findings, diagnostic impressions, and recommendations.
Focused screenings include feedback and recommendations but do not include the same comprehensive diagnostic report unless otherwise specified.
Can you send my results to my therapist, psychiatrist, or physician?
Yes. With your written authorization, assessment results and reports can be shared with another treating healthcare professional.
Can I use my assessment for workplace or school accommodations?
A clinical evaluation may provide useful documentation of a diagnosed condition and its functional impact when clinically supported. However, employers, schools, testing organizations, licensing agencies, and other third parties establish their own documentation requirements.
Before beginning an evaluation specifically for accommodations or another third-party purpose, you should obtain that organization's current documentation requirements so we can determine whether the evaluation offered by Strong Self Psychotherapy is appropriate for your needs.
Do you accept insurance for assessments?
Strong Self Psychotherapy is a private-pay practice.
A superbill may be available upon request when appropriate. Whether your insurance company reimburses any portion of an assessment depends on your individual plan and is not guaranteed.