Your Path to Clarity and Support
At Invision Psychology, we provide thoughtful, thorough assessments for a wide range of psychological conditions, including mental health concerns, developmental conditions such as ADHD and Autism, and learning difficulties.
We combine evidence-based psychometric tools with genuine clinical expertise, so you receive clear, comprehensive findings and practical recommendations in a report that helps guide your next steps with confidence.
What are psychological assessments and how can they help?
A psychological assessment can offer real clarity — helping to uncover the root causes of what you or your loved one may be experiencing, shape an effective treatment plan, and open the door to additional support and services.
Most assessments involve a collaborative approach, usually starting with a consultation with your GP and, once complete, a review of the report with a treating physician such as a psychiatrist or paediatrician. Working together this way helps ensure an accurate diagnosis and a treatment plan that may include options alongside psychological support, such as pharmacotherapy.
The Assessment Process
Step 1. Start by having a chat with your GP about your concerns — you may be eligible for a Medicare Mental Health Care Plan to support the cost of assessment and treatment.
Step 2. Reach out to our office to begin the intake process. We’ll send you an intake form along with an information sheet and consent form to look over.
Step 3. Your initial appointment is a relaxed 1.5 hour interview where we’ll talk through your symptoms and history related to what’s brought you in.
Step 4. Following your initial consultation, we’ll provide assessment questionnaires for you to complete, either during the session or from the comfort of home.
Step 5. For assessments involving autism, cognitive functioning, or learning difficulties, we’ll arrange an additional in-person session to complete some performance-based tasks.
Step 6. We’ll carefully review everything and bring it together into a comprehensive report covering your background, assessment results, and recommendations for ongoing support.
Step 7. Your psychologist will meet with you for a feedback session to walk through the results, explain what they mean, and discuss recommendations for moving forward.
Step 8. If helpful, you’re welcome to share your results with a treating physician, who can provide a formal diagnosis and talk through other treatment options, including medication.
Types of Assessment Available
Mental Health
We provide thorough assessments for a range of mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and sleep difficulties. Our evaluations help identify what you’re experiencing and how it’s affecting you, giving you a clear path toward the right treatment, a way to track your progress, and improved wellbeing over time.
Cognitive Functioning
Cognitive differences can be present from birth or emerge later in life. Through cognitive testing (often known as IQ testing), we look at performance across a range of areas to help identify intellectual disability, giftedness, or specific learning disorders. Comparing your results to a broader population helps us offer real insight into your unique cognitive strengths and areas for growth.
Learning Difficulties
Learning disorders such as dyslexia (difficulty with reading), dysgraphia (difficulty with writing), or dyscalculia (difficulty with maths) can affect a child’s progress at school. Our assessments combine cognitive testing with academic achievement evaluations, looking closely at patterns of strengths and difficulties to help reach a clear diagnosis.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Autism is a complex condition that can be recognised in childhood or later in life, and it looks different for everyone. That’s why our assessments draw on multiple sources of information – clinical interviews, input from parents, teachers, or the individual themselves, direct observation, performance tasks, and collaboration with other professionals such as occupational therapists or paediatricians.
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
ADHD is often recognised in childhood, though many people aren’t diagnosed until later in life. It can present as predominantly inattentive, hyperactive/impulsive, or a combination of both. We gather information from the different areas of your life – home, school, or work – through clinical interviews, questionnaires, behavioural observations, and where helpful, consultation with medical professionals such as a paediatrician or psychiatrist.
Assessment Fees
Our fees for completing assessments are based on our hourly rate for your clinician’s time required to complete the various components of assessment. These include face to face sessions to gather history and presenting challenges, actual testing sessions if required, administering and scoring of assessments and report writing.
If you require multiple assessments, some parts of each individual assessment process will be common to both. In such cases, parts of the individual assessment fees will be combined to reduce the total cost. Please review our Fees page for a detailed description of fees for multiple assessments.
A detailed breakdown of assessment fees is provided on our Fees page
How can I access this service?
Contact our friendly admin team via our contact page, phone or email address to start the intake process. We will send you an intake form and our information sheet and consent form and an NDIS service agreement if you have an NDIS plan with funding allocated for psychology.