ADHD Testing and Assessment in Alpharetta, GA
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Comprehensive ADHD Testing in Georgia: Uncover the Answers You Need
If you’ve been wondering whether ADHD is behind your struggles with focus, impulsivity, or restlessness, getting an objective answer can change everything. At Kellen Mental Health, we offer comprehensive ADHD testing as part of our assessment process for teens and adults in Alpharetta, GA and virtually throughout Georgia.
Our neurocognitive testing gives your clinician something that questionnaires alone can’t: measurable, performance-based data about how your brain handles attention, timing, impulse control, and hyperactivity in real time. Combined with a clinical interview and your personal history, these results help us build a clear, accurate picture of what’s going on and create a treatment plan that’s tailored to you.
What Is Neurocognitive Testing for ADHD?
Neurocognitive testing for ADHD uses standardized, computerized assessments to measure the core cognitive functions affected by attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Unlike self-report questionnaires, which rely on your perception of your own symptoms, these performance-based tests capture how you actually function on structured tasks that require sustained attention, quick and accurate responses, and impulse control.
What ADHD testing looks like
During testing, you’ll sit at a computer and respond to a series of visual and auditory stimuli. The system presents targets you need to respond to and distractors you need to ignore, mimicking the kind of competing demands your brain faces in everyday life. The testing session itself typically takes about 20 to 30 minutes.
How an ADHD assessment works
What sets our approach apart from simple questionnaire-based screening is that the computerized assessment includes environmental distractors, things like sounds and visual interruptions that happen during the test itself. This makes the results more reflective of how your attention actually functions in the real world, not just in a perfectly controlled, distraction-free setting.
The test produces scores across four key domains: attention (your ability to respond to targets accurately), timing (how quickly and consistently you respond), impulsivity (whether you respond when you shouldn’t), and hyperactivity (excess motor activity during the test). Together, these scores give your clinician a detailed, objective profile of your cognitive functioning.
Who Is ADHD Testing For?
Neurocognitive ADHD testing is appropriate for both teens and adults who may be experiencing symptoms of ADHD. It’s particularly valuable in situations where a clear, objective measure can strengthen the diagnostic process.
Adults exploring ADHD for the first time
Many adults reach their 30s, 40s, or beyond before realizing that lifelong struggles with focus, organization, follow-through, or emotional regulation might have a neurological basis. If you’ve been told you’re “just disorganized” or “not trying hard enough,” objective testing provides concrete data that either supports or rules out ADHD as part of the picture. For women especially, whose ADHD symptoms are often misattributed to anxiety or depression, performance-based testing can be the difference between years of misguided treatment and finally getting the right support.
Teens and adolescents
ADHD in teenagers can look like academic underperformance, impulsive decision-making, emotional volatility, or difficulty maintaining friendships. Parents who suspect their teen may have ADHD often face conflicting opinions from teachers, pediatricians, and family members. Neurocognitive testing adds an objective data point to the conversation, helping families and clinicians make informed decisions about next steps. We offer teen counseling alongside assessment to ensure your teen has support throughout the process.
People with inconclusive results from questionnaire-based screening
Self-report tools are useful starting points, but they have limitations. Your perception of your own attention and behavior can be skewed by anxiety, depression, sleep deprivation, or simply not having a frame of reference for what “normal” attention looks like. If a screening suggested ADHD might be present but you want more certainty before pursuing treatment, performance-based testing provides the objective layer that questionnaires can’t.
Students or professionals seeking documentation for accommodations
Academic institutions and employers sometimes require formal testing documentation to grant accommodations. Neurocognitive results, combined with a full clinical evaluation, can support the kind of thorough assessment that accommodation requests typically require.
How Testing Fits Into Our Assessment Process
Neurocognitive testing is one component of a comprehensive ADHD evaluation at Kellen Mental Health. It doesn’t replace the clinical interview or your personal history. It strengthens them.
Here’s how the full process typically works.
- Step one: clinical interview. Your clinician starts by getting to know you. They’ll ask about your current symptoms, your developmental and medical history, how ADHD-related challenges show up in your work, relationships, and daily routines, and whether there’s a family history of ADHD or other mental health conditions. This conversation gives your clinician the context that no test can provide on its own.
- Step two: computerized performance testing. You’ll complete the neurocognitive assessment in a quiet, controlled setting. The test takes approximately 20 to 30 minutes. Your clinician will explain the process beforehand so you know exactly what to expect. There’s no preparation required on your part beyond showing up.
- Step three: additional assessment (if indicated). Depending on your presentation, your clinician may recommend supplemental assessments that measure working memory, processing speed, executive functioning, or other cognitive domains. These broader tests provide additional data points that round out the diagnostic picture.
- Step four: feedback and treatment planning. After testing is complete, you’ll meet with your clinician to review results together. They’ll walk you through what the scores mean, how they connect to the symptoms you described, and what the results suggest about diagnosis and next steps. If ADHD is confirmed, your clinician will work with you to build a personalized treatment plan that may include therapy, coaching, lifestyle strategies, or coordination with a prescribing provider if medication is part of the conversation.
This layered approach ensures that your diagnosis is grounded in both your lived experience and objective clinical data, not just one or the other.
Screening vs. Evaluation: Understanding the Difference
If you’ve already taken an online ADHD screening or completed a self-report screening, you might be wondering whether you still need formal testing. The short answer: a screening tells you whether ADHD is worth investigating further. An evaluation tells you whether you actually have it.
ADHD Screening
Screenings are brief, questionnaire-based tools that flag potential symptoms. They’re a useful starting point, especially if you’re just beginning to explore the possibility of ADHD. But screenings can’t account for the many conditions that mimic ADHD symptoms, including anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, thyroid issues, and chronic stress. A high screening score doesn’t mean you have ADHD. It means the question is worth answering properly.
ADHD Evaluation
An ADHD evaluation combines clinical interview, standardized neurocognitive testing, and a review of your history to arrive at an accurate diagnosis. It can also identify co-occurring conditions that may be contributing to your symptoms, which is critical because ADHD rarely shows up alone. Anxiety, depression, and executive functioning difficulties frequently coexist with ADHD, and treating only one without addressing the others often leads to incomplete results.
What ADHD Testing Costs
Neurocognitive testing for ADHD at Kellen Mental Health is priced at $200. If additional assessment sessions are needed (such as a clinical interview or supplemental cognitive testing), those are billed at standard individual session rates, which range from $160 to $240 depending on your clinician and session length.
Kellen Mental Health is a private-pay practice. We do not accept insurance, but we accept cash, all major credit cards, and HSA/FSA cards. We can also provide superbills for clients who wish to seek out-of-network reimbursement from their insurance provider.
What Happens After Testing
Getting a diagnosis is an important milestone, but it’s what comes next that makes the real difference. At Kellen Mental Health, ADHD testing isn’t a standalone service. It’s the beginning of a supported path forward.
ADHD therapy
Our ADHD therapists in Alpharetta use cognitive behavioral therapy adapted for ADHD to help you build executive functioning skills, address the emotional impact of living with ADHD, and develop strategies for managing attention, impulsivity, and organization in your daily life. Therapy is where lasting change happens, because it gives you tools that work long after sessions end.
Coaching
For adults and professionals who want focused support on productivity, time management, goal-setting, and career performance, executive coaching and career coaching complement ADHD therapy by targeting the practical, day-to-day challenges that ADHD creates in professional settings.
Family support
For parents of teens with ADHD, parent coaching provides strategies for structure, communication, and understanding your child’s needs. Parenting a teen with ADHD comes with unique challenges, and having professional guidance makes a measurable difference.
Coordination with prescribers
If medication is part of your treatment plan, our clinicians can coordinate with your prescribing provider to ensure therapy and medication work together toward the same goals. Our approach is therapy-forward, meaning we focus on building skills and coping strategies as the foundation, with medication as a complement when appropriate.
How Our Testing Compares to Other Assessment Methods
You may encounter other types of ADHD assessment in your research. Here’s how our approach compares.
- Self-report questionnaires (like the ASRS or Conners scales) are useful for initial screening but depend entirely on your subjective perception of your symptoms. They can be influenced by mood, anxiety, or simply not knowing what “normal” attention looks like. Computerized performance testing provides an objective behavioral measure that doesn’t rely on self-assessment.
- Traditional continuous performance tests also measure attention and impulsivity through computer tasks, but many were designed without environmental distractors. The testing tools we use include visual and auditory distractors during the assessment, making results a more ecologically valid measure of how your brain performs in real-world conditions.
- Comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations are broader in scope and assess multiple cognitive domains beyond attention. These are sometimes recommended when the clinical picture is complex or when learning disabilities, intellectual assessment, or other neurodevelopmental concerns are in question. Your clinician will advise if a broader evaluation is needed based on your specific situation.
The right testing method depends on your needs, your history, and what questions your clinician is trying to answer. Our approach is a strong choice when the primary question is whether ADHD-pattern attention and impulsivity issues are present, and when objective data will strengthen the diagnostic process.
Take the Next Step
If you’ve been living with attention difficulties, impulsivity, restlessness, or the nagging feeling that your brain just works differently from everyone else’s, ADHD testing can give you the clarity you need. An accurate diagnosis is the first step toward understanding yourself better and getting the support that actually fits.
Counseling
Individual Counseling Session Rates
Sessions are available in 45- or 60-minute formats and can be conducted either in person or via video. While 60-minute sessions are recommended—especially for the first appointment—they are not required unless deemed necessary by the clinician.
Initially, appointments are typically scheduled weekly or every other week. As symptoms improve and progress toward goals becomes more consistent, sessions can be spaced out to every 3–4 weeks.
45 minute appointments: $160 – $180 per session
60 minute appointments: $215 – $240 per session
Individual counseling rate varies per clinician. Please see clinician bios for more information regarding specialties and rates.
Neurocognitive Testing for ADHD
Neurocognitive testing is a set of standardized, objective assessments designed to measure various aspects of cognitive function, including attention, memory, processing speed, executive functioning, and problem-solving abilities. These tests provide quantitative data about a person’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses, making them particularly valuable for diagnosing and managing conditions like ADHD. Results can guide personalized treatment approaches, including behavioral strategies and therapy.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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