Our Services
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- INITIAL CONSULTATION - PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT - THERAPY - PARENT SUPPORT - SCHOOL CONSULTATION - OTHER -
Initial Consultation
Overview: A brief telehealth or in-person meeting where we review your main concerns and discuss next steps
Goal: To learn more about your main concerns and set next steps
Steps to set up an initial consultation:
Patient/parent completes online registration and provides insurance coverage information prior to their appointment.
Clinician reaches out to schedule the appointment.
What to expect:
Patient/parent will be asked to share about their main concerns and stressors in their own words.
The clinician will ask more about the concerns, other symptoms, daily life (ex: relationships, work, etc.), medical and mental health history, and other background information.
Clinician will share ideas related to assessment and treatment options that they consider to be the best fit, and work together with you to determine next steps.
Psychological Assessment
Our Services
🚩Update for testing (December 2023): We are not currently accepting new testing patients as we are booked through the first few months of 2024. We strongly recommend you look into other testing options. If you’d like further information on this and/or referrals, please reach out.🚩
Overview: Testing done to learn more about main concerns and one’s developmental, cognitive, behavioral, and emotional functioning
Goal: To answer questions about possible diagnoses (Autism, cognitive functioning, ADHD, learning disabilities, anxiety, etc.) and to gather more comprehensive data about strengths, needs, learning style, behavioral profile, and social emotional functioning
Steps / What to Expect:
Complete initial consultation & agree to assessment plan.
Provide clinician with any important documents (ex: previous reports, school IEPs).
Schedule 2-3 in-person office visits to complete direct testing. This includes cognitive assessment, academic testing, measures of attention and executive functioning, and structure observation of behaviors and socioemotional functioning.
Patient, parents, and/or teachers will be sent electronic rating scales to complete in order to provide more information about patient’s functioning.
When testing and rating scales are complete, clinician works to score, interpret, and prepare the final report for approximately 3-4 weeks.
A feedback session is scheduled for the patient and/or family to review the final report, any diagnoses given, and recommendations for next steps.
Therapy
🚩Update for therapy (December 2023): We are currently closed for new therapy cases. We will update the website when we are accepting new therapy patients. If you’d like support with referrals, please reach out.🚩
Overview: Empirically-based & integrative intervention aimed at providing support, emphasizing personal strengths, building skills, reducing challenges, and increasing quality of life.
Goal: Support patients and families in navigating challenging life situations, better understanding diagnoses, increasing effective tools, building on strengths, and decreasing areas of challenge.
Steps:
Complete initial consultation
Clinician will contact to set weekly session times (45-60 min/each) for 3-4 months
Clinician and patient (and/or family) will work together to continue gathering information and setting treatment goals.
Clinician trials different interventions and supports patient (and/or family) in utilizing these interventions at home.
Clinician and patient (and/or family) continue to use interventions and to incorporate new tools as needed to meet treatment goals.
At the end of 3-4 months, clinician and patient (and/or family) discuss next steps.
What to expect:
Your therapist will collaboratively work with you (you and your child) to continuously set goals, implement interventions and strategies, and evaluate progress.
Your therapist will integrate a variety of strategies to best support you/your child. The clinician will provide education on these strategies, demonstrate how to use them, practice them with you, and guide you on how to use them outside of session.
For children and teens, parent involvement in therapy is essential to best progress.
Please note, Dr. Palmer’s therapy specialty is working with:
Kids/teens with ASD, intellectual disability, developmental delays, ADHD, anxiety, behavioral concerns, and/or related comorbidities.
Adults with ASD, intellectual disability, developmental delays, and/or related comorbidities.
Those with aforementioned main concerns who are part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Parent Support
🚩Update for therapy/parent support (December 2023): We are currently closed for new therapy cases. We will update the website when we are accepting new therapy patients. If you’d like support with referrals, please reach out.🚩
Overview: Guidance, support, and psychoeducation for parents about developmental differences (e.g. autism, ADHD, intellectual disability) & evidence-based parenting tools
Goal: To provide parents with more tools to better understand and support their child
Steps / what to expect:
Parent sessions often start after an initial consultation and consist of psychoeducation about diagnoses and presenting concerns, connection to resources, and training related to empirically-based treatment strategies that parents can use to better support their child.
Parent support, or parent training, is based on the idea that parents know their child best and have a set of parenting tools that are effective and important within their family. Importantly, however, it is common for parents of children with developmental, behavioral, or emotional differences to feel like their parenting tools are not working, not working well, or inconsistently effective. Parent support / training aims to teach parents more tools that are based in the research on individuals with developmental, behavioral, and/or emotional differences. This often leads to parents feeling more empowered and more capable of best supporting their child.
School Observation & Consultation
Overview: Ongoing collaboration with a patient’s school team
Goal: To gather information about patient from different settings, to share effective treatment strategies, and to guide the school team in best supporting patient
Steps / What to expect: This is typically done in conjunction with either psychological assessment or therapy. Reach out to your clinician with any questions/interest regarding this.
Other Consultations & Services
Overview: Training and consultation with fellow mental health professionals, school staff, rehabilitation therapists, doctors, family members, & more
Goal: To gather information about patient from different settings, to share effective treatment strategies, and to guide other members of patient’s outpatient team in best supporting patient *OR* To provide education and consultation to other professionals regarding clinician’s areas of expertise (Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Intellectual Disability, developmental differences, behavioral support, parent support, assessment, safety strategies, and more)
Steps: Reach out to us with any inquiries via our contact us form.
Groups
We are currently accepting new applicants for our neurodivergent young men group (18+). We are not currently running a teen group or other young adult group, but we would love to hear if you are a neurodivergent teen (14-17) or young adult (18-23) who would be interested in joining one of our groups in the future. See the link below for more information.