Psychological assessments for adults
You may be noticing patterns you cannot quite explain, wondering about a particular condition, or looking for a clearer understanding of your strengths and difficulties. An assessment brings together your experiences, relevant history and carefully selected assessment tools to help clarify what is happening and what may help.
Assessments are arranged by enquiry, not through the therapy calendar, so the scope and fee can be agreed with you first. The form asks only what the assessment is about.
Assessment options
Tools are selected for your question; nobody completes every test. For the five quoted assessments, scope, fee and any report are agreed with you before anything begins. The adult ADHD assessment is a standard $890 package.
For adults who are unsure what is happening, or whose difficulties overlap.
Explores: Current symptoms, relevant history, day-to-day functioning and contributing factors, to build a psychological understanding and clear recommendations.
Clarifies the picture well enough to decide on next steps; no single assessment can identify or rule out every condition.
Quote on request
For adults who want to understand their patterns, not just their symptoms.
Explores: Recurring patterns in emotion, relationships, coping and behaviour — strengths as well as areas of difficulty.
Personality assessment does not automatically mean a personality-disorder diagnosis.
Quote on request
For adults wondering whether autism or another neurodevelopmental difference may be part of the picture.
Explores: Relevant traits and developmental experiences, to help decide whether a further, more specialised assessment is appropriate — and what kind.
Screening is not a formal autism diagnostic assessment.
Quote on request
For adults living with the effects of traumatic experiences.
Explores: Trauma-related symptoms, their effect on daily life, and the most appropriate next steps — including whether trauma-focused therapy is indicated now, later, or alongside other support.
A clinical assessment for understanding and treatment planning, not a forensic or compensation report.
Quote on request
For adults weighing a change of direction, or trying to understand why work keeps feeling wrong.
Explores: Interests, values, strengths and the environments you work best in, to inform career decisions with more than guesswork.
Not a fitness-for-work, occupational capacity, recruitment or medicolegal assessment.
Quote on request
A separate assessment pathway with a standard package.
Explores: A detailed clinical interview, standardised rating scales and consideration of other explanations, followed by a written report.
Assessment may or may not support an ADHD diagnosis. Psychologists do not prescribe, and a report does not guarantee medication or acceptance by another practitioner.
$890 standard package Two appointments and a written report. Additional appointments, if agreed first, are $198.
How assessment works
The methods are chosen for your question — not the other way round.
What you want to understand, and what a useful answer would let you do differently.
Ask for a quote: what will be covered, what it will cost, and whether a written summary or full report is included — all confirmed before you commit.
Relevant interviews, questionnaires and other suitable assessment activities, selected for your question. Some can be done by video; some cannot — you’ll know which at step two.
A feedback conversation that explains what was found, what it means, and what is recommended.
What you receive
Questions
Screening is a shorter, structured look at whether a particular condition is likely enough to warrant a fuller assessment. Diagnosis is a formal clinical conclusion reached after that fuller assessment. A screening result on its own is not a diagnosis, and it is never presented as one here. Cerenova does not currently offer comprehensive autism diagnosis, IQ testing, learning-disability testing or neuropsychological assessment; where one of those is indicated, Liam will say so and point you towards it.
Yes — that is the most common starting point. The first conversation is about your questions and what you want to understand; the assessment is then shaped around that rather than around a label you have had to guess at.
Often, but not always. It depends on the purpose of the assessment and the methods it needs. Interviews and most questionnaires work well by video; some assessment activities do not. Liam will tell you at the outset whether the assessment you are considering can be completed remotely, in full or in part.
Every assessment includes feedback: a clear explanation of what was found and what is recommended. Whether a written summary or a comprehensive report is included, and at what cost, depends on the service agreed before the assessment begins. A written report is included in the standard adult ADHD package. Reports for legal, compensation or other third-party purposes have different requirements and are discussed separately.
For the five quoted assessments, a quote is provided on request and agreed with you — including any report — before anything begins. The $890 standard ADHD assessment package includes two appointments and a written report. The standard therapy Medicare rebate does not apply to this package. If you have private health cover, check with your fund about any contribution before booking. If additional assessment is needed beyond the agreed package, Liam will explain why and agree any additional fees with you before proceeding. Additional appointments are $198. Assessments are a separate piece of work from therapy and are not priced as a single $198 therapy session.
The Medicare rebate for therapy sessions does not apply automatically to assessment packages, testing or report preparation. Whether any rebate applies to a specific assessment depends on what it involves; this is clarified with you before booking, so there are no surprises.
Nothing beyond the agreed scope happens without a conversation first. If additional assessment is needed, Liam will explain why and agree any additional fees with you before proceeding; for the ADHD package, additional appointments are $198.
Tell Liam what you’re trying to understand. A quote and the scope come next, agreed with you before anything begins.
Looking for ongoing therapy instead? See how Liam works with each concern.
