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Neurosequential Assessment, ages 3+
A Developmental Approach to Understanding Regulation & Strengths
Our life experiences shape our baseline for coping with challenges. Let’s get curious, together, about how your child’s early life has informed their current coping strategies and regulation needs.
Regulation patterns, from birth to present day
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.
Looking at the whole picture
This approach utilizes Dr Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Assessment and Therapy to collect and organize information, from in utero growth to milestones and behavior patterns. I’ll guide you through a semi-structured interview and developmental timeline, using a specially designed, clinical decision-making model. The result will be a 4-page 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, toileting, 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, chronic ear infections) that can 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 4-page, personalized metric that reflects their adaptations across the lifespan and succinct recommendations about next steps toward the types of support and interventions likely to be most beneficial.
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
How is this different from a psychological or neuropsych evaluation?
The NMT Assessment interview and metric recommendations are designed to offer a trauma-informed, developmental perspective in treatment planning and clinical decision-making. The NMT does not take the place of a comprehensive psychological evaluation (performed by a PhD/PsyD clinician) and is different from a neuropsychogical evaluation. The NMT is a succinct and powerful approach to efficiently add depth and detail to specific questions about the underlying strengths and needs contributing to behavior challenges, difficulty in social relationships, regulation of mood and attention, integration of the sensory systems, and increasing access to cognitive coping skills for success in school and building other skills of daily living.
This is a 90-min interview, followed by a personalized feedback session, where we’ll review the metric report and recommendations together (60-75 min).
<BOOK OUR SESSION HERE>
You will receive a link for our session by email the day before.
The NMT report and recommendations are designed to enhance the effectiveness of other therapies and is very portable to other settings and providers (school, pediatrician, family therapy, occupational therapy). The NMT is offered to current play therapy clients at a reduced rate.
A Developmental Approach to Understanding Regulation & Strengths
Our life experiences shape our baseline for coping with challenges. Let’s get curious, together, about how your child’s early life has informed their current coping strategies and regulation needs.
Regulation patterns, from birth to present day
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.
Looking at the whole picture
This approach utilizes Dr Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Assessment and Therapy to collect and organize information, from in utero growth to milestones and behavior patterns. I’ll guide you through a semi-structured interview and developmental timeline, using a specially designed, clinical decision-making model. The result will be a 4-page 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, toileting, 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, chronic ear infections) that can 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 4-page, personalized metric that reflects their adaptations across the lifespan and succinct recommendations about next steps toward the types of support and interventions likely to be most beneficial.
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
How is this different from a psychological or neuropsych evaluation?
The NMT Assessment interview and metric recommendations are designed to offer a trauma-informed, developmental perspective in treatment planning and clinical decision-making. The NMT does not take the place of a comprehensive psychological evaluation (performed by a PhD/PsyD clinician) and is different from a neuropsychogical evaluation. The NMT is a succinct and powerful approach to efficiently add depth and detail to specific questions about the underlying strengths and needs contributing to behavior challenges, difficulty in social relationships, regulation of mood and attention, integration of the sensory systems, and increasing access to cognitive coping skills for success in school and building other skills of daily living.
This is a 90-min interview, followed by a personalized feedback session, where we’ll review the metric report and recommendations together (60-75 min).
<BOOK OUR SESSION HERE>
You will receive a link for our session by email the day before.
The NMT report and recommendations are designed to enhance the effectiveness of other therapies and is very portable to other settings and providers (school, pediatrician, family therapy, occupational therapy). The NMT is offered to current play therapy clients at a reduced rate.