You’re sitting at your desk with a task that should take an hour, and three hours later you’ve reorganized your inbox, looked up flights for a trip you’re not taking, and read half an article about something completely unrelated. The task is still open on your screen, you know you need to do it, you want to do it, and you cannot make yourself start.

This happens every day, in different forms. You walk into a room and forget why you’re there, set reminders and then ignore them, and show up late to things that matter to you. Your sense of how long things take is consistently, bafflingly wrong, so you’ve set five alarms for a meeting and still walked in four minutes late, already composing the apology in your head.

At work, you can produce brilliant results when you’re interested and almost nothing when you’re not. Your work output swings in a way that confuses your boss and frustrates you. You know you’re smart, you know you’re capable, and you’ve been told your whole life that you have potential, but every time you hear it the gap between what you could do and what you consistently deliver gets a little harder to explain.

Your home shows the same inconsistency: projects started and abandoned, a closet you were going to organize six months ago, bills you forgot to pay with the money sitting in your account because the bill didn’t exist in your brain until the late notice arrived. Your partner has stopped reminding you about things because it started to feel like nagging, and the silence that replaced it is worse. You’ve had the same fight about forgotten plans, missed commitments, and the mental load of keeping track of everything more times than you can count.

The hardest part might be the story you’ve told yourself about all of this: that you’re lazy, that you’re not disciplined enough, that everyone else manages to keep their life together and you’re the only one who can’t.

You’ve probably been treated for anxiety or depression at some point. The treatment may have helped with the worry or the low mood, but it never touched the underlying problem: the focus, the organization, the feeling of moving at full speed and going nowhere.

You’ve wondered whether ADHD might be the missing piece.

The assessment takes place over secure, HIPAA-compliant video in a single two-hour appointment. We talk through your current symptoms, how things have been since you were a kid, and how all of it shows up at work, at home, and in your relationships. The conversation follows a structured framework while staying conversational, meaning I work through a defined set of topics but let your specific story shape the questions.

I use the DIVA-5, the standard tool used in research and specialty clinics to evaluate adult ADHD.

The DIVA walks through focus, follow-through, restlessness, impulsivity, and how those have shown up across different parts of your life through specific childhood and adulthood examples instead of abstract questions.

I also ask about anxiety and depression, since those often go hand-in-hand with ADHD and can muddy the picture if we don’t look at them together.

By the end of the appointment, we have a thorough picture of how your brain works and whether ADHD is driving the symptoms you’ve been living with. I take the next 7 to 10 business days to score the interview, write up the findings, and deliver your written report.

A two-hour diagnostic interview conducted over secure video. We walk through your current symptoms, childhood history, functional impacts across work, home, and relationships, and screen for co-occurring conditions that can mimic or overlap with ADHD.

A comprehensive written report delivered within 7 to 10 business days. The report includes diagnostic findings, functional impacts, your strengths and compensatory strategies, and tailored recommendations. It’s written in plain language that makes sense to you, and in clinical language that a prescriber or therapist can work with.

An ADHD tools workbook with practical strategies for focus, organization, time management, and emotional regulation that you can start using right away, whether or not ADHD turns out to be the answer.

If the assessment confirms ADHD, your report gives you a clear path forward. You can take it to a psychiatrist, nurse practitioner, or primary care physician to discuss medication. You can share it with a therapist or ADHD coach so they’re working from a baseline that’s specific to you, not generic.

If the assessment doesn’t confirm ADHD, you still walk away with clarity. You’ll know what is and isn’t driving the symptoms you’ve been struggling with, and the report will include recommendations for what to explore next. Either way, the wondering stops.

The question you’ve been carrying for years (am I lazy, undisciplined, depressed, or is something else going on) gets a clinical answer. You stop opening Reddit threads at 11pm trying to figure out if your symptoms match. You stop wondering if you’re imagining it. You have a documented clinical assessment with diagnostic impressions, and the not-knowing is over.

The story that’s been the loudest part of all of this (lazy, undisciplined, not as capable as people think) gets a different explanation, one that comes from a clinician who’s just spent two hours assessing your specific picture. The story doesn’t disappear overnight, but each future forgotten thing stops going automatically into the same old pile.

You bring the report home and your partner finally has clinical language for what they’ve been seeing for years. The conversation about the forgotten dentist appointments, the unreturned calls, the bills you said you’d handle can start somewhere different than it usually does. Where it goes from there is up to you both. What you don’t have to keep doing is having the conversation from inside the lazy-or-don’t-care frame.

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.

You take the report to a prescriber and the medication conversation has structure instead of you trying to advocate for your symptoms from scratch. You stop being one of many patients describing vague concerns and become a patient bringing a clinical document.

The career questions you’ve been making decisions on blind start to have criteria. You know which work conditions consistently fail you (open-ended deliverables, self-directed timelines, work that requires you to invent your own structure) and which ones consistently work (external deadlines, project-based assignments, a teammate counting on you). The workbook gives you strategies to try on your own, or to take into therapy or coaching. The work going forward has a starting point you didn’t have before.

Flat fee: $900. This 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 designed for adults who want answers without a multi-appointment process, with one session, one report, and a clear path forward.

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.

Can I do this assessment online from anywhere in Connecticut? Yes. I’m licensed to provide telehealth services to adults throughout Connecticut. The assessment takes place over a secure, HIPAA-compliant video platform.

Will I get a clear answer about ADHD from this assessment? Yes. If your symptoms meet DSM-5 criteria for ADHD, the report documents diagnostic impressions of ADHD with clinical rationale, including how the criteria are met. If they don’t meet criteria, the report explains what the assessment found, what else may be driving the symptoms, and recommended next steps.

Is this enough to get ADHD medication? Many prescribers, including psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, and primary care physicians, accept a thorough clinical report as part of their decision-making process for ADHD medication. The final prescribing decision rests with the medical provider.

How is this different from online ADHD quizzes? Online quizzes are brief screening tools that suggest whether ADHD might be present. This is a comprehensive clinical assessment conducted by a licensed clinician, using the DIVA-5, a validated diagnostic interview mapped to DSM-5 criteria. It’s a thorough, structured diagnostic evaluation that results in a written report with clinical findings, functional impacts, and recommendations.

What can I use the report for, and what is it NOT for? The report supports prescriber conversations about ADHD medication, gives a therapist or ADHD coach a specific clinical baseline to work from, and provides you with a detailed understanding of your own ADHD profile.

Important: this report is NOT designed to support: - Formal workplace accommodations (ADA requests for extra time, schedule changes, or other modifications at your job) - Academic accommodations (extra time on tests, note-taking support, or other modifications at school or in college) - Disability determinations (SSDI, SSI, or private disability insurance claims) - Court-ordered or forensic evaluations

Each of those typically requires a full neuropsychological evaluation, which is a more extensive process involving multiple appointments and standardized cognitive testing. If you need an evaluation for any of those purposes, please tell me before booking and I’ll refer you to a qualified provider.

Do you accept insurance? No, this is a private-pay service. The flat fee covers the full assessment, report, and workbook.

How soon will I get my report? Within 7 to 10 business days after your appointment.

I provide online adult ADHD assessments to residents throughout Connecticut, including Stamford, Hartford, West Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Norwalk, Danbury, Waterbury, Greenwich, Darien, Westport, Fairfield, Milford, Glastonbury, Simsbury, Avon, Farmington, and all surrounding communities.

If you live anywhere in Connecticut, I can work with you.

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