Psychological Assessment
children + Adults
Adult Psychological Assessment from a Neuropsychological Perspective
We use sophisticated psychological tools to understand an individual’s intellectual, cognitive, social/ emotional functioning, to illuminate underlying neuropsychological processes that may be contributing to a person’s performance and functioning.
Reason for Assessment:
Rule out Learning Disabilities: Identify challenges with attention, concentration, memory impairments due to Traumatic Brain Injury, challenges with learning and retention, and determine accommodations for vocational and/or academic success.
Academic Achievement: Understand challenges with passing standardized tests and determine the potential need for academic or vocational accommodations.
Social/ Emotional: Often needed for evaluation for admission processes for employment, adoption, immigration status. Determine whether an underlying process is affecting social emotional functioning, or to understand why an adult may be struggling with social or romantic relationships.
Relationship Between Intellectual and Achievement Functioning: Is there a learning disorder, or processing deficit that makes everything feel like so much of a struggle? If so, how can address these deficits?
Comprehensive Child/ Adolescent Psychological Evaluation
A child/adolescent psychological evaluation gathers sophisticated information about a child’s emotional, psychological, social, cognitive, and academic functioning and to integrate such information into a comprehensive understanding of the whole child.
Reasons for Assessment
Diagnostic Clarification: Answer why is my child struggling? What’s the basis for my child’s anxiety or depression? Is my child unmotivated or is there a reason why we struggle with academic success? Why can’t my child concentrate? Why is my child so disorganized? What’s the basis for my child’s severe oppositional behavior and tantrums? Does my child show difficulty in his thought process? Is my child experiencing symptoms related to trauma?
Underlying Process: I know my child is struggling, but I can’t pinpoint what the underlying issues are.
Developmental Concerns: What are the developmental gaps that my child is missing? My child seems different but I can’t put my finger on what it is. Where is my child stuck developmentally?
Personality Assessment: My child has had something happen in their life and I want to know how best to help them for their future. How has my child’s self-esteem or personality been affected?
Treatment Recommendations: How do I best help my child? What can I do to help him/her become psychologically more healthy? What is the best treatment for my child?
Individual Therapy
Heal symptoms that surface and the wounds that lay hidden within
ENLIVEN RELATIONSHIPS AND ENHANCE YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE…
Have the freedom to explore the most sensitive topics with curiosity and without shame, guilt or judgement. By developing a trusted relationship in a confidential setting you can explore areas of your life that are the most difficult to share, the areas that often are hard to reveal to friends and family. In so doing, your journey of self-discovery can lead to a more integrated view of the self and relationships.
Explore
Relationship Concerns
Attachment Difficulties
Depression/Mood Disorders
Family Conflict + Dysfunction
Mothering + Post-Partum Adjustment
Grief and Loss
Anxiety
Panic Attacks
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Social Anxiety
Problems with Employers/ Co-Workers
College Adjustment
Failure to Launch
Trauma
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
First Responder Stressors
Sexual Assault/Rape
Physical and Emotional Abuse
Domestic Violence/Partner Abuse
Child Therapy
Family Therapy
Child Therapy
Child therapists take a strength-based, developmental approach toward wholeness rather than a view of disability or dysfunction. Current research in neuroscience and attachment theory indicate that there is brain neuroplasticity and that a relationship with a trained psychotherapist can help to remove emotional and cognitive roadblocks, provide individuals with a secure attachment, and restructure neural networks to transform the whole person’s inner, emotional life and cognitive functioning. Through a relationship with a skilled clinician, a child can access the deep wounds that develop after a stressor or trauma, help a child express their fears and conflicts in their inner world and integrate that with their more behavioral, relational outer world. Child therapists also collaborate closely with their primary caregivers to encourage strong, connected relationships.
Play Therapy
“Play therapy is to children what counseling is to adults. Play therapy utilizes play, children’s natural medium of expression, to help them express their feelings more easily through toys instead of words.” - Garry Landreth, Ph.D.
Grief + Loss
ADHD
Anxiety or Depression
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Selective Mutism
Anger + Tantrums
Social Anxiety
Emotional or Acting out
Problems with Peers
Trauma related to abuse, natural disasters, divorce
Family Therapy
Family conflicts often take a life of their own. Using a systemic approach, often powerful dynamics that are hard to break can challenge the equilibrium in the family. Family therapy can help break dysfunctional patterns, improve communication, and strengthen family relationships. Whether it is parent-child conflict, sibling rivalry, intergenerational trauma, a skilled clinician will help family members express themselves, while encouraging shifts in the status quo to develop greater capacity for empathy, understanding and relational healing.
Intensive Family Therapy
Having trouble getting the whole family together only to have the session end too quickly? Intensive treatment is available with an extended treatment session to facilitate deeper exploration of family dynamics and change. Family intensives can be scheduled for 1.5-2 hours
Couples Therapy
Marital therapy
couples counseling
Marital therapists utilize attachment-based Emotion Focused Therapy to help couples who are in distress to regulate problematic emotional states, understand unwanted self-experiences, and develop the communication skills needed for co-regulation. Marital relationship can work through the cycle of conflict to achieve a state of vitality and harmony.
For couples interested in pre-marital counseling, research indicates that couples who engage in pre-marital counseling reduce the likelihood of future divorce by 80%. An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure!
Workshops
Group therapy
ongoing groups and workshops
Positive Parenting Workshop
Tried and true positive parenting strategies to decrease yelling, anger, and nagging to get your kids to listen. Using a relationship-based model to improve compliance, cooperation and a positive attitude, this workshop will integrate best practices in neuroscience and attachment to help parents effectively parent.
We offer various groups and workshops based on community requests. Sign-up for our Newsletter to be informed of our upcoming workshops.
Integrated Listening Systems
The Integrated Listening Program was developed to help the brain change through neuroplasticity and form new neural connections. Coordinating brain and body movements through the inner ear’s bone conduction, the brain can change, become more regulated, and have increased control, attention and concentration. The iLS system can assist with self-regulation, auditory processing, mood, attention/ concentration, anxiety management, and cognitive skills. The iLS program combines movement, listening and visual stimulation to use a multi-sensory approach to brain integration and re-training the brain to become more efficient, and effective.
Potential Groups
Parent-Child Relationship Play Therapy
Positive parenting
Anger Management
Social Skills
Autism Spectrum
Social Anxiety + Social Skills Group
Depression + Anxiety Process Groups
Integrated Listening + Brain Gym Exercises
Telehealth
Virtual Therapy
All our services are available via Telehealth in California
On-line coaching and consultations are available for those in the California area who because of scheduling find it difficult to make regular sessions. All that is needed is a computer, iPad or phone.
Our clinicians are equipped to connect with you via a HIPAA compliant secure video link. Clinicians use a very stable, secure, fully encrypted, and HIPAA compliant TeleMedicine video conferencing program. No downloads are required. It is our desire to provide telehealth services to those where adequate care is restricted or that specialists for your specific needs may be lacking in your area.