Adult ADHD assessment and treatment planning
Many adults arrive at the ADHD question late, often after building a career on compensations that have quietly stopped scaling. The work gets done, but it gets done at midnight, under deadline pressure, at a cost nobody else sees. Somewhere along the way the explanation became character: undisciplined, scattered, not trying hard enough.
A careful assessment replaces that story with information. Whether or not it ends in an ADHD diagnosis, you leave with a clear account of how your attention and executive function operate and what to do with that.
Clinical approach
Neurodiversity-affirming behavioral evaluation
The evaluation is neurodiversity-affirming, which has a practical meaning here: the goal is an accurate map of how your cognition works, not a verdict on whether it works correctly. We examine lifestyle intersections — sleep, workload, substance use, mood, and the structure of your actual days — because each of those can produce or amplify attention symptoms and each changes what the right plan is.
The output is twofold: adaptive skill building matched to your real constraints, and comprehensive written documentation suitable for coordinated external care, whether that means psychiatric alignment for medication, deeper psychological testing, or an accommodation conversation.
What the work tends to cover
- Structured diagnostic interview and history
- Executive function, time, and task-initiation patterns
- Differential picture: anxiety, mood, sleep, and substance factors
- Practical adaptive systems built for your workload
- Written documentation for psychiatry or testing referrals
- Referral to comprehensive psychological testing when indicated
Ready to talk about adult adhd?
Scheduling, eligibility checks, and intake paperwork all happen in the Headway portal.