The Testing Process

Step 1: Verifying Your Insurance and Scheduling Your Intake Appointment

  1. You can call us at 828.630.9347 or click here to schedule an initial phone call with us. During this call, we will verify your insurance information, inform you of your expected out-of-pocket costs, and schedule your intake appointment. We will also go over the testing process and answer any questions that you may have about your psychological evaluation for ADHD, autism, or other psychological conditions.

Step 2: Go to Intake Appointment

  1. At the date and time of your intake appointment, you will follow this link for your virtual appointment: https://doxy.me/briancollinpsyd. During this appointment, Brian will ask you questions about you or the patient’s life history, your background, what led you to decide to get testing, and other relevant information. The appointment will last one hour.

  2. On the day of your intake appointment, you will receive an email with links to a number of questionnaires that need to be completed at least one week before your in-person testing appointment. Completing these questionnaires allows us to see the full picture of your symptoms and how you or the patient behaves in a variety of settings, if applicable, and helps us to provide the most accurate testing and feedback process for you. Failure to complete the questionnaires on time will result in part of your testing appointment being used to complete the questionnaires. This may require an additional appointment being scheduled for your feedback session to go over your results. Please note that some insurance plans require this feedback session to be done in person.

Step 3: In-Person Testing and Feedback Session

  1. For the fastest results, please complete your online questionnaires at least one week before your in-person appointment.

  2. Please arrive at our physical location for testing 15 minutes prior to your appointment time.

  3. The cognitive testing will take two to three hours, which may include a variety of activities that measure verbal skills, problem-solving abilities, tests of attention/concentration, and academic skills (e.g., reading, writing, and mathematics).

  4. If you have completed your questionnaires at least one week prior to your testing appointment, then immediately after the cognitive testing is completed, Brian will go over your results with you for about one hour. He will discuss your results and recommendations he has based on what was discovered during the testing process. If you did not complete your questionnaires prior to your testing appointment, a portion of your testing appointment will be used to complete them, which may result in an additional appointment being scheduled at a later date for your feedback session to go over your results. Some insurance plans require your feedback session to be done in person, but we will schedule this virtually if possible.

  5. The full report will then be accessible to the patient or patient’s parent/legal guardian on the patient portal within 2-3 business days.