Neurosequential Assessment, ages 3+

Through an in-depth developmental interview, we’ll work together to understand how neurodiversity and early life stressors have contributed to your child’s learning style, relationship and communication skills, self-regulation capacity, access to cognitive coping strategies, and essential patterns like sleep and sensory needs.

This approach utilizes Dr Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Assessment and Therapy, creating a visual metric of functional nervous system development and clear treatment recommendations in support of your child’s strengths and attending to their areas of challenge.

We’ll collaborate to create a plan for their best support that is trauma-sensitive, developmentally-focused, sensory-smart, and neurobiologically-informed. We’ll also weave in your own strengths and experiences of parenting to identify community based supports your whole family can utilize.

When we talk about regulation and sensory needs being built on early developmental experiences and heritable traits, these can include organic neurodiversity as well as adaptations to challenges at each age and stage of growing-up.

The Neurosequential Model is rooted in research that shows how early-life or chronic stressors can significantly shape brain & nervous system functions, while also building resiliencies that need to be updated in order for a child to truly thrive.

These are some of the factors we’ll consider:

• questions about everyday functions like feeding, elimination, attachment, or sleep

• strong skills, special interests, social engagement needs, and communication style

• organic brain differences and neurodivergence, including ADHD and Autism

• family patterns of communication, extracurriculars, and extended family support

• early life stressors such as abuse, neglect, loss of a caregiver, or traumatic events

• foster care and adoption dynamics, considering both birth and adoptive families

• prenatal development—including in utero growth and stressors, exposure to environmental or biological toxins, and epigenetic inheritances

• premature or traumatic birth events, medical interventions, or NICU stay

• recurring patterns of anxiety, aggression, sensory soothing, tics, and big behaviors

• neuroimmune conditions (including inflammation, congestion, psoriasis & eczema, POTS, PANS/PANDAS, Lyme disease, chronic ear infections) and multiple other conditions that may influence neuropsychological changes

• medical trauma & after-effects of treatment for pediatric cancer or heart conditions

We’ll work together to create tailored recommendations and a holistic understanding of your child’s current strengths and capacity—with a personalized map that reflects their adaptations across the lifespan.

Bring your questions about…

• Setting realistic expectations

• Untangling behavior patterns or other symptoms that occur together

• Personalized recommendations that consider the whole child—cognitive capacity, emotional needs, relational supports, and biology—and reflect caregiver strengths

• Identifying what types of interventions are most likely to be effective—including community-based resources, specialist referrals, and increasing parent support

• Understanding learning differences, academic challenges, and adding neurodiversity-affirming recommendations to IEP/504 learning plans

• Linking therapy goals and educational advocacy with current strengths—tailoring recommendations to meet your child where they are

• We’ll discuss strategies for prioritizing and pacing interventions, as needed, and I’ll share referrals beyond the scope of my play therapy and parenting work

This is a 90-min interview, followed by a personalized consultation (60-75 min).

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You will receive a link for our session by email the day before.

You deserve just as much support as your kids do. This is an invitation to lean into your own resilience. No need to figure out parenting & your child’s learning needs on your own.