We care about helping you find answers.

At First Steps Psychology, we provide comprehensive psychological evaluations for children, adolescents, and adults. We specialize in understanding the full picture behind concerns related to autism, ADHD, learning, development, attention and executive functioning, and emotional or behavioral functioning.

We know that the path to an evaluation can be frustrating. Parents may spend months trying to understand why their child is struggling. Adults may spend years wondering why certain aspects of school, work, relationships, or everyday life have always felt harder than they seem to be for others. Sometimes previous diagnoses or explanations have never quite captured the whole picture.

Our approach is individualized, collaborative, and focused on understanding the person—not simply generating test scores or assigning a diagnosis. We have particular expertise in nuanced, complex, and high-masking presentations of autism and ADHD that may be less obvious or have been overlooked in the past.

Beyond the diagnosis

Getting an accurate diagnosis can be an important first step, but an evaluation should also help you understand what the findings mean.

Our goal is for you to leave with greater clarity about strengths and challenges, why certain difficulties may be occurring, and what can help moving forward. Recommendations are practical and individualized, with attention to everyday life at home, school, college, work, and in treatment.

Because finding the answer matters. Knowing what to do with it matters, too.