ADHD Exploration & Discovery
IN A NEUROAFFIRMING SPACE
Understand Your Brain, Your Way
Have you spent years feeling like you’re operating on a different wavelength, constantly battling burnout, or wondering if your struggles with focus, executive dysfunction, or hyperfocus might be ADHD?
Traditional diagnostic assessments can feel clinical, sterile, and hyper-focused on what is "wrong" with you. That is why I offer an alternative: ADHD Exploration & Discovery Packages.
Our work together bridges clinical clarity with deep personal insight. We begin with a comprehensive clinical review of your history and written behavioral assessments, followed by a deep-dive, face-to-face conversation. Together, we look at your life story, your unique strengths, and the invisible ways you might be masking your struggles. We dig into how your executive functioning, sensory processing, and dopamine pathways actually operate, pairing formal clinical assessment with genuine, neuroaffirming psychoeducation.
Is this service right for you?
This exploration is designed for:
Late-Identified Adults Seeking Answers: If you have spent your life feeling like you’re trying to run a different operating system than everyone else, this is a soft space to land, explore your history, and find clarity.
Those Untangling Years of Burnout and Masking: This is for the chronic overachievers, the exhausted perfectionists, and anyone who has spent years hiding their struggles behind invisible coping mechanisms. We will look past the mask to find your true baseline.
People Desiring Validation Over Clinical Distance: If you want to deeply understand the why behind your executive functioning, dopamine dips, and emotional regulation patterns without the clinical feel of traditional testing rooms.
Anyone Ready for Compassionate, Actionable Strategies: If you are ready to stop blaming yourself for "laziness" or "lack of discipline" and instead want to collaborate on concrete, real-world next steps.
This exploration isn’t for:
Academic / Workplace Accommodation Seekers: If your university or corporate HR department explicitly requires a standardized, multi-hour neuropsychological testing battery (like IQ testing or computerized attention variables), this service will not meet their formatting mandates.
Strict Medication Management Needs: While the Tier 2 narrative report provides an excellent clinical baseline for future care providers, some medical practices or rigid insurance networks may require formalized, standardized diagnostic testing reports before a psychiatrist can prescribe stimulant medications.
Legal or Forensic Cases: This service is purely for personal growth, therapeutic strategy, and self-understanding. It is not designed to be used in legal proceedings, disability claims, or court cases.
The Optional Formal Report
Your Story, Put into Words
While our sessions focus on conversation and collaborative insight, many clients choose to add an Optional Formal Report to their exploration package.
This comprehensive document serves as a clear, professionally structured outline of your unique history, behavioral patterns, and executive functioning symptoms. Clients find this written record incredibly beneficial for:
Coordinating Care: Providing a solid clinical baseline when speaking with future psychiatrists, primary care doctors, or coaches.
Personal Validation: Giving you an objective, clear language to look back on whenever you struggle with self-doubt or imposter syndrome.
Bridging the Gap with Loved Ones: Serving as a gentle, articulate tool to help explain your brain, your struggles, and your needs to close friends, partners, or family members who want to understand you better.
Because insurance plans typically do not reimburse for the hours required to synthesize and write out a formal narrative report, this option is available strictly as an out-of-pocket add-on. Despite this, it remains one of my most requested features.
The optional report is $750.
Choose Your Package
Tier 1:
The Core Exploration
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Individuals who purely want self-understanding, validation, a clear diagnostic clinical picture, and a therapeutic action plan.
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Comprehensive review of your background history and written assessment forms
2-hour initial diagnostic interview & collaborative session
60-minute follow-up strategy & psychoeducation session.
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$1,000
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Individuals who want everything in Tier 1, plus a formal written narrative to bring to future medical providers, therapists, or loved ones.
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Everything in Tier 1
Comprehensive Narrative Report—a formal, professionally structured written synthesis detailing your history, executive functioning patterns, behavioral symptoms, and personal cognitive strengths.
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$1,750
Tier 2:
The Exploration and Report
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Packages include 2 hour interview session and 1 hour follow up session.
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If you have out-of-network benefits, the 3 hour total face-to-face clinical session time may be eligible for reimbursement. A superbill can be provided for these specific hours upon request.
Strict Insurance Exclusions: Please note that health insurance companies do not cover the administrative hours required for the comprehensive clinical review of written assessments before we meet or the compilation of the Tier 2 narrative report. These components are strictly out-of-pocket expenses.
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Sessions are held either in my office in Highland Park, NJ or online if you are in New Jersey or Maine at the time of our sessions.
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A 50% non-refundable deposit ($500 for Tier 1 / $875 for Tier 2) is required to secure your intake slot and initiate your pre-session assessment review. The remaining balance is auto-charged at the start of your initial 2-hour session.
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I would be happy to discuss continuing support if you would like to meet for more sessions after completing the discovery package. Sessions would be based on my individual hourly rate of $225 and hour.
FAQs about ADHD Exploration Packages
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