Psychological assessment and therapy in Coffs Harbour

Assessment, done personally

The person being assessed is the point of all of this. My aim is to understand someone's strengths and differences, and to build an affirming picture of how they best like to meet the world and learn. Everything about how I assess follows from that.

It means an hour with parents or caregivers before any assessment begins. At least two assessment sessions on different days, because how someone meets the world on Tuesday isn't always how they meet it on Friday, and I want to see both. An hour of feedback where we talk through every result in plain language. And a report with practical recommendations for home, school or work, plus a personal profile written for the person who was assessed, about them, for them.

Nothing is outsourced: every conversation, every session, every page of the report is mine. The person who meets you, or your child, is the person who writes the report.

Lachlan Beaton, Clinical Psychologist (Registrar)