Understand your concerns
Clarify your difficulties, how they have developed and their effects across different areas of life.
Understand · explore · find support
What explains my difficulties?
Attention, anxiety, mood, relationships… Find information that speaks to your experience, even if you do not yet know where to start.
You may want to understand yourself or your child better. This page helps you choose a starting point and see what an assessment can clarify.
Start with your experience
What brings you here?
Choose the question closest to your experience. Several possibilities may be relevant; these examples are not a diagnostic test.
Attention and organisation
I get distracted, put things off and forget…
Understand ADHD, with or without hyperactivity, and other possible explanations for attention difficulties.
Explore ADHDAutism · Asperger’sI have felt different for a long time.
Explore social and sensory differences and patterns of interests associated with autism spectrum disorder.
Understand Asperger’s / ASDAnxiety and fearsWorry is taking over my life.
Generalised anxiety, social anxiety, panic and phobias: understand what triggers and maintains fear.
Understand anxiety disordersMood · depressionI no longer feel the motivation or enjoyment I used to.
Learn about depression and why duration, context and impact matter in an assessment.
Understand depressionMood · bipolar disorderMy mood and energy change a lot.
Distinguish ordinary mood fluctuations from episodes that require a specific assessment.
Understand bipolar disordersPersonality and relationshipsThe same difficulties keep recurring in my relationships.
Explore longstanding patterns of feeling, self-perception and relating to others, without reducing a person to a label.
Explore personalityReading · writing · mathsLearning takes particular effort for me.
Learn about difficulties such as dyslexia and dyscalculia, and assessments suited to the skills involved.
Understand learning and related developmental difficultiesDevelopment and independenceMy child needs more support in everyday life.
Understand intellectual disability, taking both intellectual abilities and everyday adaptive functioning into account.
Understand intellectual disabilityDo several possibilities feel relevant?
This is a common reason to seek an assessment. Similar difficulties can have different explanations, and several aspects may coexist. You do not need to arrive with a diagnosis in mind.
A questionnaire as a starting point
These questionnaires may help identify a possibility to explore. Their results alone cannot confirm or rule out a diagnosis.
Giftedness, ADHD and ASD: must you choose?
Intellectual giftedness is not a mental disorder. It can coexist with ADHD, autism spectrum disorder or emotional difficulties. Feeling different is not enough, on its own, to distinguish between them.
The aim of assessment is to understand abilities, difficulties and their impact, rather than treat the possibilities as mutually exclusive.
What a psychological assessment can offer
Explore relevant explanations
Bring together the clinical interview, questionnaires and tests suited to the question being explored.
Gain useful insights
Understand the findings, strengths, needs and suggested recommendations or referrals.
The assessment is tailored to your concerns. Some situations require medical advice, specialist assessment or further investigations. You may also wish to discuss a previous diagnosis or review how things have changed.
Before booking an appointment
Do I need to know which condition to explore?
No. You can describe what is difficult and the questions you would like answered. Your concerns will guide the possibilities to explore.
Does assessment take place in person or online?
This depends on the assessment. Emotional and personality assessment can take place online. IQ tests, such as the WAIS-IV or WISC-V, require an appointment in person at the practice.
Is assessment only about making a diagnosis?
It can also help you understand how you function, identify your strengths, clarify your needs and offer recommendations, even if no disorder is identified.
A first step
Put your experience into words
Describe your situation and the questions on your mind. We can then clarify which type of assessment would be appropriate.
