Assessments and Testing
Evaluation that reads the whole person and translates into support you can use.
You Know There Is More to the Story
You have watched your child struggle and wondered why. Why school feels so hard when you know how bright they are.
Why they cannot seem to focus, whatever you try. Why they are falling behind when everything in you says they are capable of so much more.
Or you are an adult who has spent years feeling wired differently from everyone around you, without ever having language for it.
The Mismatch Is Information
Sometimes, the brightest minds sit outside the mold. That mismatch is information, and the right assessment gives it a name.
For some, the reason has nothing to do with school. It is the pull to understand yourself more deeply. Or a legal or vocational process to move through. Or the documentation that finally reaches the support you have always deserved.
Whatever brought you here, you want to be understood as a whole person.
See Yourself Clearly, in Full Context
A good assessment is more than a test. It is a process of understanding, one that reads the whole person and the whole life around the score.
Our licensed psychologists bring years of experience working alongside schools, psychiatrists, attorneys, pediatricians, probation officers, and other professionals. What we find translates into real support in the real world.
We meet you as a whole person, with a history and a mind worth understanding.
Find the Evaluation That Fits Your Question
We offer a wide range of evaluations, grouped by what brought you here.
- Learning and attention: ADHD, learning disabilities, cognitive and achievement testing, and school accommodations that meet ADA criteria
- Autism: diagnostic evaluations for children, teens, and adults, including late identification and cases where autism and ADHD overlap
- Emotional and diagnostic: trauma and PTSD, socio-emotional and personality testing, mental health assessments, and differential diagnoses
- Developmental: intellectual and developmental disability evaluations
- Vocational and legal: substance-use assessments, return-to-work and pre-employment testing, and compensation-and-pension examinations for veterans
Every evaluation is tailored to the person in front of us. People arrive at this door for their own reasons, and a non-standardized mind needs more than a standardized process.
Leave With a Roadmap You Can Use
What comes out of this process is a roadmap.
Families leave with clear recommendations and accommodations ready to use. When it is needed, our psychologists show up at school meetings and advocate directly for your child.
For adults, it is documentation that opens doors that have felt closed and insight that helps everything finally make sense.
Clarity changes things. It changes how you see yourself, how others see you, and what becomes possible from here.
Where This Work Happens
Prepare to Change is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit counseling center, and that structure is the reason a family can get a real evaluation here without cost deciding it.
Our team spans three license tiers: licensed therapists, associates working toward licensure, and master’s-level trainees. Every pre-licensed clinician carries their caseload under close, ongoing supervision, which is our quality commitment across everything we do.
We work with clients from age ten through adulthood at our Tustin and Newport Beach offices, with therapy available online anywhere in California.
Let’s Make It Make Sense
If you have been wondering whether an assessment could help, for your child, for yourself, or for someone you love, just reach out.
The first conversation runs 20 minutes and costs nothing.
We will help you figure out what kind of evaluation fits and what the process looks like from here.
Start With a Conversation
Twenty minutes, free, no obligation. Tell us what is going on, and we will tell you honestly whether this is the right place for you. If it turns out we are not, we will point you toward somewhere that is.
Two offices, Tustin and Newport Beach, plus online sessions anywhere in California.