ADHD Assessment in Texas

You’ve probably taken one of those online quizzes by now. Maybe a few of them. They told you what you already suspected, then left you exactly where you started, wondering whether any of this is real or whether you’re just bad at being an adult.

An online screener works about as well as a check engine light. It can tell you something’s off. It can’t tell you what, and it can’t tell you what to do about it. That distinction matters more than most people realize, because plenty of things look like ADHD from the outside. Anxiety scatters your attention. Depression drains your follow through. Trauma keeps your brain scanning the room instead of reading the page. Poor sleep will hollow out your working memory faster than almost anything else. Each of those needs a different kind of help, so guessing gets expensive in ways that are hard to see until years have already gone by.

An assessment is how you stop guessing.

Manny Tamarez is a Licensed Professional Counselor who holds the ADHD-CCSP certification, which means dedicated training in how ADHD presents and how it gets treated. As an LPC he can evaluate you and provide a clinical diagnosis. That’s the diagnosis that opens the door to therapy, to a more useful conversation with your employer and to a referral if medication is worth exploring.

Here’s the part a lot of practices leave out. What happens here is clinical assessment and diagnosis, which is a different thing from psychological testing. Full neuropsychological batteries, the kind that produce processing speed and IQ scores across a stack of timed subtests, are performed by licensed psychologists. Certain universities and certain employers will accept nothing else before they approve accommodations. If that turns out to be what your situation calls for, we’ll tell you early and point you toward someone who does that work. We’re not going to take your money and leave you holding paperwork that doesn’t do the job.

We also don’t prescribe. Counselors in Texas can’t. If medication becomes worth considering, we provide your documentation and coordinate with your physician or a psychiatric provider so that nobody is starting from scratch.