We provide a range of assessment and therapy services focused on assisting individuals and families with the many issues and challenges that often first emerge during childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood.
Assessment
Assessment is a way of getting to know a person’s unique profile—their strengths, challenges, and the way they experience their world. Our goal is to help children, young people, and adults feel seen, heard, and understood with recommendations that are practical, tailored, and meaningful.
Our Process
Enquiry and Intake:
When you enquire about an assessment, you’ll be provided with an online link to our Service Agreement and Intake Form. We will also tell you what the current wait time is for bookings. The Service Agreement includes information about our service including fees and other things. The Intake Form helps us understand your/ your child’s needs and determine the most appropriate assessment pathway. Once we receive your completed Intake Form, we’ll book your assessment appointments. If anything is unclear, we’ll check in with you first. You’ll receive a booking confirmation email that will include your appointment details, deposit requirements, and any other important information.
Assessment:
The assessment itself may involve meeting with you, you and your child, completing questionnaires, and/or working through activities or puzzle-like tasks. Depending on the type of assessment, it may involve one appointment, or a few. It’s important to talk with your child or young person ahead of their appointment; we appreciate this can be tricky and have prepared some tips to assist with this. With your permission, we’ll also gather input from schools or other key people in your child’s life to ensure a well-rounded picture.
Feedback:
After everything is completed, your psychologist will carefully bring together the information, analyse the results, and prepare a detailed written report. You’ll be invited to a feedback session where we’ll go through the findings together, making sure everything is explained clearly and that you have an opportunity to have any questions answered. You’ll receive a copy of the report with personalised recommendations—strategies you can use at home, school, and in daily life, alongside other helpful resources and information.
Our Assessments
Cognitive Assessment:
Also called an intelligence test. Explores how someone thinks and learns, highlighting their learning potential and unique patterns of strengths and difficulties. Available for children as young as 3, right through to adulthood.
Educational Assessment:
Focuses on academic skills such as reading, writing, and maths. Results can show areas of strength, areas of challenge, where extra support might be helpful, and whether a learning difficulty may be present such as a Specific Learning Disorder in Reading (Dyslexia), for example.
Developmental Assessment:
Explores a broad range of developmental areas including thinking skills, communication, social interaction, emotional development, physical milestones, and everyday life skills like self-care.
Behaviour, Social, and Emotional Assessment (including ADHD):
Examines patterns of behaviour, attention, and emotional wellbeing. This may include areas such as hyperactivity, impulsivity, sustaining focus or experiences of worry and low mood.
Autism Assessment:
Considers how a person’s profile aligns with the characteristics of autism, including communication, social interaction, interests, patterns of behaviour, and sensory processing. Our approach is respectful, neuro-affirming, and tailored to each individual.
Therapy
We provide evidence-based therapy for children, adolescents, young adults, and families. Therapy typically involves a series of scheduled appointments, attended fortnightly or monthly, depending on your child’s and family's needs. We tailor our approach to each individual—recognising that every journey is unique. Some concerns can be addressed in just a few sessions, while others benefit from ongoing support over time.
Sessions may include your child individually, you and your child together, or parent-only appointments. When helpful, and with consent, we collaborate with schools, medical professionals, and other support services to ensure care is consistent and connected. For younger children (under five), therapy is facilitated through parent or parent–child sessions.
We recognise that children and young people are not “little adults” and therapy requires flexible, play based, and creative adaptions to support engagement, expression, validation, and regulation. Alternate seating options, weighted toys, sensory fidgets, and dimmer lights support a safe sensory experience for all.
We Help With
Mood and Emotions:
Mood, depression, mood instability, low self-esteem, grief and loss, emotional dysregulation, and behavioural outbursts.
Anxiety and Worry:
Worry, perfectionism, separation issues, specific phobias, social anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, performance anxiety, stress, and school attendance related challenges.
Attention and Behaviour:
Behaviour, attention, understanding ADHD, self-awareness, coping strategies, problem solving, communication skills, and anger management.
Neurodivergence:
Understanding autistic and other brain styles, masking, harnessing strengths, navigating areas of difficulty, identity development, and self-advocacy skills.
Relationships:
Conflict resolution, bullying, friendships, parent/child relationship challenges, and parenting support.
Unfortunately We Cannot Currently Help With
While our practice is dedicated to supporting our clients across a broad range of areas, we are not currently providing:
Eating Disorder treatment
Addiction or Substance Use treatment
Marriage or Couple counselling
Sexual Assault Services
