Testing and Evaluation Therapists in Nashville, TN
Where do I begin and the life experiences that shaped me end? We all go through times where we stumble on the question "Who am I?" No matter what the issue, my hope for you is not perfection or happiness. The goal for our time together is wholeness; because through authenticity, anything in life becomes possible. This is true for individual adults and children, as well as for families and couples.
Where do I begin and the life experiences that shaped me end? We all go through times where we stumble on the question "Who am I?" No matter what the issue, my hope for you is not perfection or happiness. The goal for our time together is wholeness; because through authenticity, anything in life becomes possible. This is true for individual adults and children, as well as for families and couples.
Sometimes the problems we face feel insurmountable. At times, we even feel embarrassed or ashamed to talk about them. I provide a space for you to be accepted, listened to and understood. Using an evidence-based approach grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, you will learn the tools to help you make changes to your life - in line with your values.
Sometimes the problems we face feel insurmountable. At times, we even feel embarrassed or ashamed to talk about them. I provide a space for you to be accepted, listened to and understood. Using an evidence-based approach grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, you will learn the tools to help you make changes to your life - in line with your values.
My overall objective is to provide a safe, nurturing environment for individuals, couples and families to address personal challenges. For those engaging in the therapeutic process, the journey requires courage and commitment to personal growth. My professional experience prepares for me to work in a culturally competent framework with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds and life experiences. For individuals concerned with spiritual growth, I provide a Christian framework for assessing personal development. My expertise enables me to work effectively with all ages from early childhood through adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood and the elderly season.
My overall objective is to provide a safe, nurturing environment for individuals, couples and families to address personal challenges. For those engaging in the therapeutic process, the journey requires courage and commitment to personal growth. My professional experience prepares for me to work in a culturally competent framework with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds and life experiences. For individuals concerned with spiritual growth, I provide a Christian framework for assessing personal development. My expertise enables me to work effectively with all ages from early childhood through adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood and the elderly season.
Our understanding of autism & ADHD has changed; millions of people remain undiagnosed. ADHD and autism often co-occur. They can be hidden by or mistaken for trauma/BPD, bipolar, perimenopause, or perfectionism. Engineers, programmers, nurses, and teachers can spend a lifetime not understanding why things have been so hard. They feel stupid, lazy, or alien. BIPOC, women/non-binary, and older adults are most likely to have been missed or mislabeled. Being professionally successful doesn't mean you cannot have ADHD or autism, but it may mean that you have had to work harder to excel in a world that was not designed to meet your needs.
Our understanding of autism & ADHD has changed; millions of people remain undiagnosed. ADHD and autism often co-occur. They can be hidden by or mistaken for trauma/BPD, bipolar, perimenopause, or perfectionism. Engineers, programmers, nurses, and teachers can spend a lifetime not understanding why things have been so hard. They feel stupid, lazy, or alien. BIPOC, women/non-binary, and older adults are most likely to have been missed or mislabeled. Being professionally successful doesn't mean you cannot have ADHD or autism, but it may mean that you have had to work harder to excel in a world that was not designed to meet your needs.
There is a time in all our lives when it feels that nobody understands, somebody fails to listen, and we feel we have to figure it out by ourselves and that doesn't work either. Finding yourself in that desperate place is an appropriate time to tell your story to a therapist who desires to listen and help you understand where you've been and come along side you to assist you in knowing where you want to go. Courageously step toward the therapy process and embrace the hope that reminds you that you don't have to stay stuck or remain in the dark.
There is a time in all our lives when it feels that nobody understands, somebody fails to listen, and we feel we have to figure it out by ourselves and that doesn't work either. Finding yourself in that desperate place is an appropriate time to tell your story to a therapist who desires to listen and help you understand where you've been and come along side you to assist you in knowing where you want to go. Courageously step toward the therapy process and embrace the hope that reminds you that you don't have to stay stuck or remain in the dark.
Hey there, most of my patients just call me "Doc" to keep it simple. My specialty areas include anxiety, relationship issues for couples, PTSD, & gastric bypass evaluations. Listen, life does not have to hurt ALL the time, & it is way too short to STAY unhappy & overwhelmed. You have the power to take back control of your life, job, family, & future. Rome, as great a city as it was in its prime, was not built in a day; it took time & a "plan". Together, we can develop a "plan" to get to the greatness inside you. Success is achievable; you just need the right coach. Call or email today & let me help you.
Hey there, most of my patients just call me "Doc" to keep it simple. My specialty areas include anxiety, relationship issues for couples, PTSD, & gastric bypass evaluations. Listen, life does not have to hurt ALL the time, & it is way too short to STAY unhappy & overwhelmed. You have the power to take back control of your life, job, family, & future. Rome, as great a city as it was in its prime, was not built in a day; it took time & a "plan". Together, we can develop a "plan" to get to the greatness inside you. Success is achievable; you just need the right coach. Call or email today & let me help you.
Under supervision of a licensed psychologist, I also provide psychological assessment services in Clarksville, TN.
Hi, I'm Leah Walker, a postdoctoral fellow and licensed professional counselor in TN, KY, and VA. I work with adults navigating trauma and a life of chronic invalidation. My approach is authentic, collaborative, and trauma-informed, creating a safe space to explore life's most difficult challenges. In our first sessions, you can expect transparency, trust-building, and support tailored to your unique needs. I am fully invested in your healing journey and believe everyone deserves to feel heard, validated, and empowered to create meaningful change. If you're ready to begin that journey, I would be honored to walk alongside you.
Under supervision of a licensed psychologist, I also provide psychological assessment services in Clarksville, TN.
Hi, I'm Leah Walker, a postdoctoral fellow and licensed professional counselor in TN, KY, and VA. I work with adults navigating trauma and a life of chronic invalidation. My approach is authentic, collaborative, and trauma-informed, creating a safe space to explore life's most difficult challenges. In our first sessions, you can expect transparency, trust-building, and support tailored to your unique needs. I am fully invested in your healing journey and believe everyone deserves to feel heard, validated, and empowered to create meaningful change. If you're ready to begin that journey, I would be honored to walk alongside you.
Jennifer Michelle Dozier
Licensed Professional Counselor, PhD, LADAC, LPC-MHS, SAP, QCS
4 Endorsed
Online Only
If you are seeking a ADHD assessment, drug and alcohol assessment or an anger assessment I can help.
We all carry the weight of past experiences, and I’m here to guide you toward becoming the best version of yourself. Whether you’re struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, or addiction, there is a path forward. I know many have tried other therapies before, but my specialized training in Brainspotting has made a profound difference for my clients. Healing trauma can be challenging, but there is hope. Life is too precious to spend it feeling stuck, and you don’t have to go through it alone. If you’re ready to take the next step, reach out—I’m here to help.
If you are seeking a ADHD assessment, drug and alcohol assessment or an anger assessment I can help.
We all carry the weight of past experiences, and I’m here to guide you toward becoming the best version of yourself. Whether you’re struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, or addiction, there is a path forward. I know many have tried other therapies before, but my specialized training in Brainspotting has made a profound difference for my clients. Healing trauma can be challenging, but there is hope. Life is too precious to spend it feeling stuck, and you don’t have to go through it alone. If you’re ready to take the next step, reach out—I’m here to help.
You and I both know that life can feel unbelievably messy, unpredictable and chaotic. It's easy to get lost in the frenetic juggling of home life, work life and relationships. You can lose your sense of purpose, direction and even who you are. Experiencing some measure of difficulty, distress and pain IS life, but what happens when your usual ways of coping no longer work? It can be all too easy to surrender to the unrelenting waves of frustration, despair and disillusionment when faced with difficult experiences.
You and I both know that life can feel unbelievably messy, unpredictable and chaotic. It's easy to get lost in the frenetic juggling of home life, work life and relationships. You can lose your sense of purpose, direction and even who you are. Experiencing some measure of difficulty, distress and pain IS life, but what happens when your usual ways of coping no longer work? It can be all too easy to surrender to the unrelenting waves of frustration, despair and disillusionment when faced with difficult experiences.
Treat Mental Health Tennessee sees clients who struggle with anxiety, depression, or trauma, seeking relief and a deeper understanding of their emotions. They need a supportive and empathetic therapist who can provide practical tools and strategies for coping. Their goals include improving emotional regulation, building healthier relationships, and enhancing their overall quality of life. They want to feel empowered and equipped to handle life's challenges, striving for a sense of peace and fulfillment. Their motivation stems from a desire to break free from their current struggles and achieve long-lasting positive change.
Treat Mental Health Tennessee sees clients who struggle with anxiety, depression, or trauma, seeking relief and a deeper understanding of their emotions. They need a supportive and empathetic therapist who can provide practical tools and strategies for coping. Their goals include improving emotional regulation, building healthier relationships, and enhancing their overall quality of life. They want to feel empowered and equipped to handle life's challenges, striving for a sense of peace and fulfillment. Their motivation stems from a desire to break free from their current struggles and achieve long-lasting positive change.
Living with chronic pain or trauma can feel like carrying an invisible weight that affects your body, emotions, relationships, sleep, energy, and sense of self. You may feel exhausted, misunderstood, or disconnected from who you once were. Pain and trauma often coexist—the body remembers what the mind had to survive, keeping the nervous system on high alert long after danger has passed.
Many of us feel stuck in survival mode, overwhelmed by physical symptoms or emotional pain that’s hard to articulate. If this resonates, know this: I see you, and you’re not alone.
Living with chronic pain or trauma can feel like carrying an invisible weight that affects your body, emotions, relationships, sleep, energy, and sense of self. You may feel exhausted, misunderstood, or disconnected from who you once were. Pain and trauma often coexist—the body remembers what the mind had to survive, keeping the nervous system on high alert long after danger has passed.
Many of us feel stuck in survival mode, overwhelmed by physical symptoms or emotional pain that’s hard to articulate. If this resonates, know this: I see you, and you’re not alone.
Our team of highly skilled clinicians specialize in OCD, trauma, insomnia, chronic illness, anxiety, PMDD, BFRBs, and more. These commonly co-occurring conditions are often present with ADHD and autism.
Our comprehensive services include affordable psychological assessments designed to examine autism/ADHD/mental health in high-masking teens and adults; newer, gentler, evidence-based therapies; integrated executive function coaching; and recommended prescribers to make ScienceWorks a one-stop shop for complete wellness.
Our team is here to align with your values and help you move toward self-understanding and self-efficacy.
Our team of highly skilled clinicians specialize in OCD, trauma, insomnia, chronic illness, anxiety, PMDD, BFRBs, and more. These commonly co-occurring conditions are often present with ADHD and autism.
Our comprehensive services include affordable psychological assessments designed to examine autism/ADHD/mental health in high-masking teens and adults; newer, gentler, evidence-based therapies; integrated executive function coaching; and recommended prescribers to make ScienceWorks a one-stop shop for complete wellness.
Our team is here to align with your values and help you move toward self-understanding and self-efficacy.
Beautiful Minds serves children, teens, adults, and families seeking support with anxiety, depression, trauma, behavioral concerns, relationships, or life changes. You may be worried about your child, feeling overwhelmed yourself, or trying to understand patterns that keep getting in the way. Our team takes time to understand what is happening, what matters to you, and what you want to change. We build care around your strengths and needs, helping you develop practical skills, strengthen connections, and make daily life feel more manageable.
Beautiful Minds serves children, teens, adults, and families seeking support with anxiety, depression, trauma, behavioral concerns, relationships, or life changes. You may be worried about your child, feeling overwhelmed yourself, or trying to understand patterns that keep getting in the way. Our team takes time to understand what is happening, what matters to you, and what you want to change. We build care around your strengths and needs, helping you develop practical skills, strengthen connections, and make daily life feel more manageable.
As of August 2023, I have relocated my practice from Houston, TX to Nashville, TN. I am now scheduling fall in-person psychological, psychoeducational, and school neuropsychological assessments and therapy sessions in Nashville, TN and telepsychology appointments in the 39 PSYPACT states.
As of August 2023, I have relocated my practice from Houston, TX to Nashville, TN. I am now scheduling fall in-person psychological, psychoeducational, and school neuropsychological assessments and therapy sessions in Nashville, TN and telepsychology appointments in the 39 PSYPACT states.
Life can leave scars that don't always show on the surface. For nearly 20 years, I've helped individuals, couples, and families work through trauma, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and major life transitions. As a Licensed Professional Counselor, clinical supervisor, and military veteran, I bring both professional expertise and real-world understanding to the therapy process. My approach is direct, compassionate, and focused on helping you break free from patterns that keep you stuck so you can move forward with greater clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Life can leave scars that don't always show on the surface. For nearly 20 years, I've helped individuals, couples, and families work through trauma, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and major life transitions. As a Licensed Professional Counselor, clinical supervisor, and military veteran, I bring both professional expertise and real-world understanding to the therapy process. My approach is direct, compassionate, and focused on helping you break free from patterns that keep you stuck so you can move forward with greater clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Each one of us experiences psychological challenges in life that we try to meet using whatever strategies we know. However, sometimes the challenges become too great and our coping strategies stop working. This can be compounded by the fact that we often internalize messages from our society, however well-intentioned, that limit our abilities to understand ourselves and our world. It is in these moments that we can use support from therapists to turn down the noise of the world so that we may find our own inner wisdom about who we are, what we need, and ultimately how to heal.
Each one of us experiences psychological challenges in life that we try to meet using whatever strategies we know. However, sometimes the challenges become too great and our coping strategies stop working. This can be compounded by the fact that we often internalize messages from our society, however well-intentioned, that limit our abilities to understand ourselves and our world. It is in these moments that we can use support from therapists to turn down the noise of the world so that we may find our own inner wisdom about who we are, what we need, and ultimately how to heal.
If you or a loved one are struggling with personal or professional issues, we can help. We provide individual, couple, group and family therapy services, offering tailored and integrative treatment plans.
The goal of our program is help you, or a loved one, start treatment and achieve a healthy life balance. To do this, we educate not only clients, but also their friends and family, providing concrete suggestions and building action plans to create solutions. Together, we will uncover the steps necessary for a happier, healthier, more productive life. At Cohesion Counseling Services, we know that in many situations that by the time
If you or a loved one are struggling with personal or professional issues, we can help. We provide individual, couple, group and family therapy services, offering tailored and integrative treatment plans.
The goal of our program is help you, or a loved one, start treatment and achieve a healthy life balance. To do this, we educate not only clients, but also their friends and family, providing concrete suggestions and building action plans to create solutions. Together, we will uncover the steps necessary for a happier, healthier, more productive life. At Cohesion Counseling Services, we know that in many situations that by the time
Helping adults move through trauma, depression, anxiety, grief, and life transitions with greater clarity, resilience, and hope.
Helping adults move through trauma, depression, anxiety, grief, and life transitions with greater clarity, resilience, and hope.
My clientele consists of children, adolescents, and adults. I use a variety of approaches in working with my clients in an attempt to find the most efficacious approach to meet the particular client's needs. As a psychologist, I also perform psychological evaluations for diagnostic purposes. For example, I evaluate cognitive ability, learning disorders, ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, and many other issues. Finding oneself can be a daunting task in our complex society. I aspire to help my clients achieve self understanding, a sense of efficacy, and develop tools to assist them in navigating life's challenges on their own.
My clientele consists of children, adolescents, and adults. I use a variety of approaches in working with my clients in an attempt to find the most efficacious approach to meet the particular client's needs. As a psychologist, I also perform psychological evaluations for diagnostic purposes. For example, I evaluate cognitive ability, learning disorders, ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, and many other issues. Finding oneself can be a daunting task in our complex society. I aspire to help my clients achieve self understanding, a sense of efficacy, and develop tools to assist them in navigating life's challenges on their own.
I specialize in neurodiversity-affirming testing for autism, ADHD and mental health for kids and adults.
I am a specialist in neurodiversity including testing for ADHD and autism. I provide neurodiversity-affirming evaluations and especially enjoy helping high masking autistic/ADHD women and girls with their diagnoses. I can also help with accommodations for standardized testing and work. I serve people in TN and PSYPACT states.
I specialize in neurodiversity-affirming testing for autism, ADHD and mental health for kids and adults.
I am a specialist in neurodiversity including testing for ADHD and autism. I provide neurodiversity-affirming evaluations and especially enjoy helping high masking autistic/ADHD women and girls with their diagnoses. I can also help with accommodations for standardized testing and work. I serve people in TN and PSYPACT states.
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What is a psychological evaluation?
A psychological evaluation is a test or assessment most commonly administered by a trained psychologist that is intended to be used in the diagnosis of specific psychological conditions, such as ADHD, mood disorders, personality disorders, dementia or Alzheimer's, and learning disabilities. Psychological evaluations can help inform future treatment decisions and help direct clients to professionals and resources that may be most helpful, such as potential therapy options or additional school supports.
Can psychological evaluations be done on individuals of any age group?
Psychological evaluations are conducted on individuals of all ages and can be beneficial to individuals across the lifespan. However, specific types of evaluations may be most frequently conducted on individuals of certain age groups. For instance, ADHD or learning disability testing is often conducted in children ages 4-12--the period of time when ADHD symptoms most commonly emerge. In contrast, cognitive functioning assessments, such as those conducted to diagnose dementia, are most commonly conducted in elderly individuals. Clients should ensure that the psychologist they are seeing has specific expertise in conducting evaluations in their age group to ensure they receive a correct diagnosis.
Who conducts psychological evaluations and assessments?
Psychologists are the primary professionals who perform psychological evaluations and assessments. Such psychologists hold a doctorate-level degree (PsyD or PhD) in the field of psychology and thus have extensive knowledge of the diagnostic criteria for various psychological conditions. In some cases, clients may seek a psychiatric assessment—typically conducted by a Medical Doctor (MD) specializing in Psychiatry or a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP)—which are more focused on potential medication management for mental health conditions.
How long does a psychological evaluation take?
Psychological evaluations vary in length depending on the test being administered and the goals of the evaluation; however, most evaluations are 2-4 hours in length. Some evaluations may take as long as 8 hours but can often be spread across multiple days. In some cases, clients will also attend an intake session or interview, which can help the psychologist assess client functioning outside of the testing environment.
How should I prepare for a psychological test and evaluation?
Individuals do not need to prepare for psychological tests or evaluations in most cases, as they are intended to measure a client's baseline psychological status without test-specific preparation. However, clients may want to brainstorm a list of questions for their psychologist about any tests they are receiving prior to the assessment, including what potential outcomes may mean for what next steps the client should take.