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Neurodiversity-Affirming, collaborative, therapeutic assessments

This assessment model is predicated on the idea that evaluation itself can and should be therapeutic. Rather than treating assessment as a single event that culminates in a brief feedback session, the process unfolds collaboratively from the start: pre-assessment consultation establishes shared goals and accommodations, contextual history gathering and strengths-based testing honor the client's lived experience alongside standardized measures, and environmental assessment situates results in the client's actual home, work, and school demands. Because neurodivergent clients and those with complex histories are integrating a substantial amount of information — often for the first time, and often reworking a lifetime of prior narratives about themselves — a single feedback session isn't sufficient. Instead, this is an intensive, assessment-based consultation, with 10–15 hours dedicated to the integration of feedback: joint interpretation of findings, working through what the results mean for identity and self-understanding, and developing personalized, environment-focused recommendations at a pace that allows genuine integration rather than a one-time information dump. Throughout, the process prioritizes warm handoffs and ongoing collaboration with other clinicians moving forward — connecting clients to therapists, systems consultation with family or workplaces, and follow-up support — so that assessment functions not as an endpoint, but as the opening chapter of continued, affirming care.

Individual Therapy (Adults)

I hold a limited number of spots for individual therapy with adults, offered through the same collaborative, trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming lens that shapes my assessment work. Many clients come to this work after a new diagnosis — their own or a loved one's — looking for support making sense of what it means and unlearning years of masking, self-doubt, or being pathologized by systems that didn't understand them. Others are simply looking for a therapist who won't treat their neurodivergence as the problem to be solved. Because I intentionally keep this caseload small, availability is limited — reach out to ask what's currently open.

Parent Support

I also offer consultation for parents and caregivers navigating what it means to raise a neurodivergent child. This isn't traditional parent training built around compliance or "fixing" behavior — it's a collaborative process grounded in the same neurodiversity-affirming framework I bring to assessment, focused on helping you understand your child's inner world and build a home environment that actually fits how your family is wired. I draw heavily on attachment theory in this work, with a particular focus on building and repairing secure attachment patterns across the whole family system — not just regulating your child's nervous system, but recognizing that yours is in the mix too, and that lasting change usually comes from steadying the relationship, not just managing the behavior. Whether you're processing a recent diagnosis, questioning approaches you've been told to use, or trying to find your own footing as a parent under a lot of pressure, this work is meant to meet you where you are.

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy

Brief ketamine-assisted psychotherapy combines carefully administered ketamine with focused therapeutic support to catalyze shifts in perspective and emotional processing. Following a comprehensive evaluation, this trauma-informed approach may be offered to certain clients in collaboration with their established therapist to help gently navigate stuck patterns, access emotional material at a manageable pace, and support healing from depression, anxiety, trauma, and overwhelm. By creating a safe container and a window of neuroplasticity, this treatment enables meaningful breakthroughs within a condensed timeframe.

I only offer KAP to clients who have either first completed a full evaluation with me, or are currently in therapy with me  — the assessment gives us the clinical clarity and context to know whether this is an appropriate and safe path to explore together. When it's relevant, it's usually not something I lead with; it tends to come up organically as part of our feedback and consultation process, once we have a fuller, shared picture of what someone is carrying and what kind of support might actually move the needle. For neurodivergent clients in particular, this sequencing matters: KAP works best when it's grounded in real understanding of someone's inner landscape, rather than applied as a generic intervention, and the extended consultation model gives us the room to figure out, together, whether it belongs in your care.

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       Ori Elis, PhD (they/she)

       CA lic. #: PSY31081
       NPI: 1790427409 · EIN: 84-2429141

       orielis@protonmail.com

       (510) 854-0415

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