Assessments

Understanding the full picture.

At Unique Minds Psychology, we provide comprehensive, neuroaffirming, and evidence-based assessments for children, adolescents, and adults.

Whether you are seeking clarity around ADHD, autism, learning difficulties, emotional wellbeing, executive functioning, or developmental concerns, our goal is to provide thoughtful, individualised assessment that supports understanding, confidence, and practical next steps.

We recognise that neurodivergence does not always present in obvious or stereotypical ways. Many individuals — particularly girls, women, and high-masking individuals — may appear to be coping externally while experiencing significant internal overwhelm, exhaustion, anxiety, or burnout.

Our assessment approach is designed to look beyond surface-level presentation and understand the whole person.

What We Assess

We provide assessment and diagnostic support in areas including:

ADHD Assessments

Comprehensive assessment for children, adolescents, and adults to explore attention, executive functioning, impulsivity, emotional regulation, behavioural presentation, and functional impact across settings.

Autism Spectrum Assessments

Neuroaffirming and thorough autism assessments that consider social communication, sensory experiences, behavioural rigidity, masking, developmental history, and functional presentation across the lifespan.

Cognitive and Learning Assessments

Assessment of cognitive strengths and challenges, learning profiles, memory, processing, and areas that may impact academic performance or daily functioning.

Specific Learning Disorder Assessments

Assessment for learning-based difficulties including:

  • Dyslexia (reading)

  • Dysgraphia (written expression)

  • Dyscalculia (mathematics)

Emotional, Behavioural, and Executive Functioning Profiles

Understanding emotional regulation, anxiety, overwhelm, sensory factors, behavioural challenges, and executive functioning difficulties that may impact home, school, work, or daily life.

School-Based Learning, Academic, and Developmental Concerns

Assessment of difficulties related to learning, classroom functioning, attention, developmental concerns, academic engagement, support planning, and understanding barriers to progress.

Diagnostic Clarification and Differential Assessment

Where symptoms overlap or feel unclear, we consider the broader picture and explore possible contributing factors to better understand an individual’s presentation.

Unsure whether ADHD, autism, learning, emotional, or developmental factors may be contributing? We can help guide the most appropriate pathway.

A Special Interest in High-Masking Girls and Women

At Unique Minds Psychology, we have a particular interest in supporting girls, adolescents, and women whose neurodivergence may have been overlooked, misunderstood, or missed due to high-masking, internalised, or externally adaptive presentations.

Many neurodivergent girls and women do not fit traditional stereotypes.

They may appear:

  • Socially capable

  • Academically strong

  • Quiet or compliant

  • Organised or perfectionistic

  • Highly empathetic

  • Successful or “coping well” externally

While internally experiencing:

  • Exhaustion

  • Anxiety

  • Sensory overwhelm

  • Emotional dysregulation

  • Burnout

  • Social fatigue

  • Perfectionism

  • Chronic overwhelm

  • Difficulty maintaining expectations

Because these presentations are often subtle, internalised, or masked, many girls and women are identified later in life — often after years of feeling different, misunderstood, or working incredibly hard to keep up.

Our assessment approach considers:

  • Masking and compensatory strategies

  • Internalised ADHD and autism presentations

  • Social expectations and gendered presentation

  • Perfectionism and people-pleasing

  • Anxiety, burnout, and overwhelm

  • Late-identified neurodivergence across adolescence and adulthood

If concerns have felt overlooked due to strong academic performance, “appearing to cope,” or less externally visible struggles, we understand these presentations can be complex.

Hormones and Neurodivergence Across the Lifespan

We understand that hormonal changes can significantly influence how neurodivergence presents and is experienced across different life stages.

For many neurodivergent girls and women, hormonal changes may affect:

  • Attention and focus

  • Emotional regulation

  • Executive functioning

  • Anxiety

  • Sensory sensitivity

  • Sleep

  • Fatigue

  • Mood

  • Coping capacity

Our formulation and assessment process considers the interaction between neurodivergence and hormonal change across:

  • Pre-puberty

  • Puberty

  • Adolescence

  • Postpartum

  • Perimenopause

  • Burnout and cumulative masking over time

This helps us understand the broader context of a person’s presentation, rather than viewing difficulties in isolation.

Child, Adolescent, and Adult Assessments

We support individuals across the lifespan.

Children

Assessment for learning, behavioural, developmental, emotional, social, and neurodevelopmental concerns.

Adolescents

Including increasing academic demands, emotional regulation, burnout, anxiety, identity development, and late-emerging neurodivergent presentations.

Adults

Including late diagnosis, executive functioning difficulties, burnout, masking, workplace challenges, emotional overwhelm, and greater self-understanding.

Our Assessment Process

Our assessments are comprehensive and multimodal, which may include:

  • Clinical interviews

  • Developmental history

  • Behavioural observations

  • Standardised cognitive and diagnostic measures

  • Rating scales

  • School, family, or third-party feedback (where appropriate)

  • Functional and emotional assessment

  • Differential diagnostic formulation

Our aim is not simply diagnosis, but meaningful understanding — helping individuals and families better understand strengths, challenges, needs, and practical supports moving forward.

Assessment Fees and Process

Every individual is different, and assessment pathways can vary depending on age, presenting concerns, complexity, and the type of assessment required.

We begin with an initial assessment consultation to understand concerns, gather relevant background information, and determine the most appropriate assessment pathway.

Following this consultation, we provide clear information about:

  • Recommended assessment type

  • What the process may involve

  • Estimated fees

  • Timeframes

  • Report and feedback inclusions

This helps ensure recommendations are individualised and clinically appropriate, rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach.

After Assessment

Following assessment, recommendations may support:

  • Diagnostic clarification

  • Individualised recommendations

  • School accommodations and learning support

  • Workplace adjustments

  • Therapy planning

  • Parent understanding and support

  • Psychoeducation

  • Referrals for additional supports or services

Why Unique Minds Psychology?

  • Neuroaffirming and evidence-based approach

  • Strong understanding of subtle, internalised, and high-masking presentations

  • Special interest in girls and women

  • Understanding of hormones and neurodivergence across the lifespan

  • Child, adolescent, and adult assessments

  • Practical, strengths-based recommendations

  • Warm, respectful, and collaborative care

Ready to Take the Next Step?

Whether you are seeking answers for yourself, your child, or a loved one, we understand that pursuing assessment can feel significant.

Our goal is to make the process clear, supportive, respectful, and meaningful from beginning to end.