Why see a Neuropsychologist?
You have been diagnosed with a condition affecting your brain:
Understand your condition better. Have your questions answered.
Get personalised strategies to support your everyday brain functioning.
Be emotionally supported to cope, adjust, and recover.
Have the professional evidence you need to access certain services and support.
You are concerned about a possible problem with your brain:
Get an expert diagnostic opinion.
Have detailed information about the strengths and weaknesses in your thinking and memory skills.
Learn about what might help.
You are supporting someone with difficulties affecting their brain:
Compassionate support for you and your well-being, based on expertise in brain conditions and how they affect the person and their loved ones.
Strategies for you to support your loved one.
“I’ve had a stroke and my memory keeps letting me down”
“My thinking is changing, what is going on?”
“I’m just not coping the same since my brain injury ”
“Ever since my husband was diagnosed with dementia, I’ve been so worried”
“I know I’m Autistic, I want to know more about my brain!”
“How am I going to go returning to work?”
More about our services
Neuropsychology Assessment
Comprehensive and expert assessment of cognition (thinking and memory), emotions, and behaviour. The purpose of this could be to better understand the impacts of your brain condition, give a diagnostic opinion about the cause of your difficulties, and/or to give ideas about how to best help and support you.
What it involves:
Detailed interview with you and your support people about your concerns and your history.
Review of available medical records and other information you provide.
Doing tests together in the office. This can take 2 - 4 hours to complete, so break time or multiple appointments can be arranged.
You and your support people completing other questionnaires, depending on your concerns and needs.
Preparation of a detailed report for you and your care team about the findings of the assessment, and the support recommendations.
Feedback appointment/s with you and your support people to help you understand the findings.
Strategies for you and your support people to improve or maximise your everyday functioning.
Ongoing follow-up can then be arranged, to help support your recovery and implement the assessment recommendations.
Support & Intervention
The Neuropsychologist can support you and your loved ones in a number of different ways. The clinic does not have the capacity to provide long-term therapy, and therefore our work is goal-driven and focussed over a shorter period of time (e.g., 3 - 10 sessions). Our therapies are cognitive-behavioural in nature, drawing on well-evidenced therapy models CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy), DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy), and ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), as well as the principles of Rehabilitation Psychology and cognitive rehabilitation. This could look like:
Follow-up support after a Neuropsychology Assessment, in order to help you, your loved ones, and your care team to improve and maximise your everyday functioning. This usually involves assistance to develop and implement practical strategies to support the cognitive, emotional, or behavioural difficulties identified through the assessment process.
Counselling for you in order to help you cope better, adjust, and understand yourself and your brain. This could include addressing symptoms of depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, and emotional dysregulation.
Counselling for loved ones and support people, to help them cope better, adjust, understand you and your brain, and how to best support you. The well-being of loved ones and carers is extremely important.
Supervision & Consultation
Board-approved clinical supervision can be provided if you are a psychologist or other health professional needing expert guidance in all things brain and psychology.
Please contact us if you are interested in educational presentations or other forms of consultation to your service around neuropsychological matters.