Comprehensive Psychological & Neuropsychological Assessments
Individualized assessment • Advanced clinical training • Experienced supervisory oversight
ADHD & AUTISM SPECTRUM ASSESSMENT
$1,500 – $2,000
When attention, executive functioning, or social-communication difficulties interfere with daily life, a clearer understanding can make a difference.
ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder can remain unrecognized well into adolescence and adulthood. Difficulties with attention, organization, impulse control, planning, time management, sensory processing, or social communication may be mistaken for anxiety, depression, stress, or simply “not trying hard enough.”
Our comprehensive assessment develops an individualized picture of cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and social functioning.
The evaluation may address:
- Attention and concentration
- Executive functioning, including planning, inhibition, working memory, and problem-solving
- Cognitive and learning abilities
- Social communication and behavioral functioning
- Emotional and psychological factors that may affect performance
- Differential diagnosis and overlapping conditions
You receive: an integrated evaluation, diagnostic impressions, individualized recommendations, and a feedback session designed to translate findings into practical next steps for school, work, relationships, and daily functioning.
TBI & CONCUSSION ASSESSMENT
$2,000 – $2,500
When the injury is invisible, comprehensive assessment can make the difference.
Concussions and traumatic brain injuries can produce cognitive and emotional changes that persist long after the initial physical injury has healed. Difficulties with attention, processing speed, memory, decision-making, fatigue, emotional regulation, and everyday functioning may be subtle—but can significantly affect school, work, relationships, and quality of life.
Our comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation helps clarify the individual’s current cognitive and emotional profile and identifies factors that may be contributing to ongoing difficulties.
The evaluation may address:
- Attention and concentration
- Processing speed
- Learning and memory
- Executive functioning and decision-making
- Language and other cognitive abilities
- Emotional and behavioral functioning
- Fatigue, sleep, pain, and other factors that may influence cognitive performance
- Functional impact on school, work, and everyday activities
Assessment findings can provide a foundation for individualized treatment and neurorehabilitation recommendations, including strategies to support attention, executive functioning, memory, and return to everyday activities.
MEMORY & NEURODEGENERATIVE ASSESSMENT
$2,000 – $2,500
Distinguishing normal aging from meaningful cognitive change.
Occasional forgetfulness is a normal part of aging. However, persistent changes in memory, language, attention, or executive functioning can sometimes signal a need for further evaluation. Comprehensive assessment establishes an objective picture of current functioning and can help clarify whether observed changes are consistent with normal aging, mild cognitive impairment, or a more significant neurocognitive disorder.
The evaluation may address:
- Memory and learning
- Attention and processing speed
- Executive functioning, including planning and problem-solving
- Language and word retrieval
- Visuospatial abilities
- Emotional and behavioral factors
- Functional changes affecting independence
The goal is not simply to identify areas of difficulty, but to develop a clear, individualized understanding of cognitive strengths and weaknesses that can inform treatment, rehabilitation, compensatory strategies, and longer-term care planning.
SUPERVISED CLINICAL ASSESSMENT
Assessments are conducted by predoctoral and postdoctoral psychology trainees as part of their advanced clinical training at the Community Institute for Psychotherapy.
All assessments are conducted under the ongoing supervision of Paul Kiritsis, PsyD, MScMed, Psych Testing Director and Assessment Supervisor. Dr. Kiritsis provides clinical consultation and supervision throughout the assessment process, reviews the clinical findings and integrated report, and provides final supervisory approval and sign-off.
This model combines advanced clinical training with experienced professional oversight, providing comprehensive assessment services while supporting the development of the next generation of psychological assessment clinicians.
AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO ASSESSMENT
Dr. Kiritsis brings training in both clinical psychology and clinical neurophysiology to the assessment supervision process. This interdisciplinary perspective supports a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between cognitive functioning, behavior, emotional wellbeing, and the nervous system.
Rather than relying on a single screening measure, assessments are tailored to the individual’s clinical presentation and referral question.
Our goal is to provide more than a diagnosis: it is to provide a roadmap for understanding, treatment, rehabilitation, and improved functioning.
To learn more or schedule an assessment, contact the Community Institute for Psychotherapy at 415-459-5999 x 102.
Psychological Testing Services Philosophy
Community Institute for Psychotherapy offers psychological testing at sliding scale fees for use as an adjunct therapeutic tool for understanding adult individuals in ongoing psychotherapy with CIP intern therapists or with therapists in the community. We maintain that thoughtfully conceived, culturally sensitive, skillfully administered, and carefully interpreted psychological testing provides clients and their therapists with a valid and valuable means to learn about aspects of themselves, their thinking, feeling, perception, level of psychological development, adaptation, and potentials that may not be understood through psychotherapy alone.
Some of the issues for which clients and therapists have found psychological testing to provide highly useful insights include intellectual capacities, personality structure and function including dynamic and diagnostic formulations, patterns of interpersonal relationships, coping styles and defensive operations, reality testing, risk factors, and suggestions for ways in which the psychotherapeutic relationship might be approached most effectively.
Therapists who request testing at CIP are encouraged to develop specific questions which they wish the testing to address. The tester, a pre-doctoral intern under experienced, licensed supervision, approaches the testing project with the goal of answering these questions, if possible, and thus meaningfully tailoring the process to meet the therapist’s and client’s specific requests for information or guidance.
Testing Process
It is highly recommended that the therapist and client together develop one or more questions that they wish to have answered through psychological testing. The therapist then sends those questions to the Intern Testing Coordinator at CIP. A pre-doctoral intern will be assigned to do the testing and will talk with both the therapist and the client in more detail about their questions. The client will schedule a minimum of two testing sessions with the intern, each lasting two to three hours.
After reviewing the test results and preparing a report, the intern will contact the therapist and client to schedule a feedback interview. In most cases, the intern will meet with the therapist and client together to discuss the results of the testing and give each of them a written report of the results.
