What Brooklyn adults often notice when they suspect ADHD

Your annual reviews say the same thing every year: "great when engaged," "inconsistent," "has so much potential." You've heard "potential" often enough that the word has started to feel like a critique. The work you do is good when you finally do it, but the gap between when you should start and when you start has been growing.

Your partner has gotten quietly used to being the one who remembers: the dentist appointment, the bill, the gift for your mother-in-law, the school form, the call you said you'd return. They stopped reminding you because reminding didn't help. Now they handle it themselves, and the resentment is showing up in the small things: the sigh when you forget what they reminded you about three times, the way they don't bother making weekend plans with you that involve logistics, the conversations that have gotten shorter.

Time doesn't work for you the way it seems to work for other people. An hour disappears into a task you thought would take twenty minutes. Or you wake up convinced you have plenty of time, look up an hour later, and realize you're going to be late again. The promise to leave fifteen minutes early never quite happens. The cushion you tried to build into the schedule keeps getting absorbed by the thing you sat down to do quickly that turned into the morning.

The story you've been telling yourself about all of this hurts more than anything else: that you're lazy, that you lack discipline, that you're not as capable as people think. The story has been with you since middle school, and it doesn't stop generating evidence even when you do good work, because each piece of good work feels like an exception that proves how much potential you're failing to use.

What an ADHD answer changes

You stop wondering. The question that's been with you for years (do I have ADHD or is something else going on) gets answered through a structured clinical assessment. The diagnostic impressions are documented in writing. Whether the answer is ADHD, something adjacent, or something else, you walk away with clinical clarity instead of another month of suspicion.

You stop adding every missed deadline and forgotten errand to the lazy-undisciplined column. The story you've been telling yourself since middle school (that you're not trying hard enough, that you lack discipline, that you're not as capable as people think) has a different explanation. The next time you forget something, the meaning of the forgetting changes, even if the forgetting itself doesn't stop right away.

Your partner reads the report and stops interpreting your forgotten promises as a values problem. The next conversation about the unreturned text, the missed appointment, the bill you said you'd pay starts from a clinical frame instead of a moral one. Whether you both build systems together, find a couples therapist, or just have one different conversation, the framing has changed.

The end-of-year review stops being the meeting you dread for two weeks beforehand. The same feedback you've been getting (great when engaged, slow to start, brilliant on the projects that catch you) has an explanation that doesn't end with "try harder." You walk into the meeting knowing what's underneath the feedback, which changes what you hear and what you say back.

The report becomes the document you bring to your psychiatrist or primary care provider. The medication conversation finally has a clinical foundation. The anxiety treatment that helped some but didn't reach the underlying focus problem can be recalibrated around what's underneath it, if your prescriber decides that's appropriate. The final prescribing decision rests with your medical provider, but the conversation starts from a different place.

The next career conversation, with your manager, your partner, or yourself, has a clear-eyed read on what your specific brain does well and doesn't. The job decisions you've been making blind start to have criteria. The workbook offers strategies you can try (body doubling, externalized deadlines, breaking tasks down to the smallest possible first step) and the report itself becomes a starting point for working with a therapist or coach who specializes in adult ADHD.

How the assessment works

The assessment runs two hours by secure video. The framework is the DIVA-5, a validated diagnostic interview developed for adult ADHD, mapped to DSM-5 criteria. We cover your current symptoms, how things looked when you were a kid, and the impact on your work, home, and relationships.

We also screen for anxiety and depression because those frequently overlap with ADHD and need to be accounted for. You receive the written report and a practical ADHD tools workbook within 7 to 10 business days.

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Two-hour clinical interview

Comprehensive written report

ADHD tools workbook

conducted by secure video. The structured DIVA-5 framework covers symptoms, history, and the functional impacts in your work, home, and relationships.

delivered within 7 to 10 business days. Documents diagnostic findings, the functional picture, your compensatory strategies, and tailored next-step recommendations. Written in clear language for you and in clinical terms a prescriber or therapist can use.

with practical strategies for focus, time management, organization, and emotional regulation. Useful immediately, whether or not ADHD turns out to fit.

Cost and Logistics

Flat fee: $900. Includes the two-hour diagnostic interview, two hours of clinician scoring and report writing, and the ADHD tools workbook. Payment is due at booking; this is a private-pay service.

Report delivered securely by email within 7 to 10 business days after your appointment.

This assessment is not designed for: children or teens, formal workplace or academic accommodations, disability determinations (SSDI, SSI, private disability claims), court-ordered or forensic evaluations, or a full neuropsychological evaluation. Each of those requires a different type of assessment. If you need any of them, I'll provide referral options.