SERVICESADHD Assessments
Adult ADHD assessments in Melbourne and Australia-wide via Telehealth.
Maybe you've wondered for years. Or maybe you've read enough to suspect ADHD explains more than you've been told. An assessment is how you find out properly.
Not through an online quiz or Tik-Tok reel, but through a structured clinical process with a psychologist who works with neurodivergent adults every week.
ADHD doesn’t always look like ADHD
ADHD can look very different from person to person, particularly in adults. Difficulties with attention, organisation, emotional regulation or overwhelm may have been present for years but misattributed, ‘masked’ or put down to laziness.
A proper assessment looks beyond a checklist of symptoms. It considers your developmental history, current experiences and how difficulties affect your everyday life, helping you understand whether ADHD may be part of the picture.
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ADHD isn't just a childhood condition.
It is now well established that ADHD can persist into adulthood, with an estimated worldwide prevalence of around 2.5%, and up to 70% of individuals with childhood-onset ADHD continue to experience impairing symptoms as adults, even if they no longer meet the criteria for a formal diagnosis.
An accurate assessment matters because the alternative means years of misattributing your difficulties to laziness or lack of willpower. This carries real costs. Understanding how your brain works is the starting point for building a life that works with it, not against it.
Our assessments follow the Australian Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline for ADHD — the NHMRC-approved national standard developed by the Australian ADHD Professionals Association (AADPA).
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Many adults, particularly women, were missed as children because their difficulties didn't look like the stereotype: they were the daydreamers, the "bright but disorganised", the ‘good girls’ quietly exhausting themselves to appear on top of things.*
This "masking" works, until it doesn't, commonly unravelling in the face of increased demands (career, parenthood, both) and arriving as exhaustion, anxiety, or burnout rather than anything that looks like textbook ADHD.
Our psychologists assess with these presentations specifically in mind. If your difficulties have been invisible to everyone but you, that doesn't make them less real, it makes a careful assessment more important.
*Hinshaw SP, Nguyen PT, O'Grady SM, Rosenthal EA. (2022). Annual research review: ADHD in girls and women. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
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Everyone experiences these sometimes. What prompts an assessment is when they've been lifelong, show up across different areas of life, and cost you more than they should:
Focus that won't cooperate; scattered when you need focus, or locked-on for hours to the wrong thing
Chronic procrastination and difficulty starting tasks, even ones that matter to you
Disorganisation that persists despite systems, apps, and genuine effort
Restlessness; physical, mental, or both
Emotional reactions that arrive fast and hit hard
A trail of unfinished projects, missed deadlines, and "wasted potential" comments or thoughts
Exhaustion from holding it all together in ways others don't seem to need to
Finding yourself doing extraordinary things under time pressure but struggling to do the ordinary
If this reads uncomfortably familiar, an assessment can tell you whether ADHD explains it, or whether something else does. Both answers are useful.
Are we right for you?
| WHAT WE CAN DO | WHAT WE DON'T DO |
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| Our psychologists are trained to comprehensively assess and diagnose ADHD | We don't prescribe medication: this requires a psychiatrist or an authorised-GP, depending on the State you live in and current legislation |
| Provide you with a written diagnosis | We don't diagnose ADHD from a single 45 min telehealth call |
| Offer clarity on the best explanation for your symptoms, whether that's ADHD or not | We don't currently offer formal combined Autism Spectrum Disorder assessments |
| Provide therapeutic support to better understand yourself and manage your life with (or without) ADHD | We don't currently assess or treat children or adolescents younger than 18 |
Why choose Still Moving?
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Neurodivergent-affirming, genuinely
We see ADHD as a difference in how your brain works; one with real challenges worth addressing but also with real strengths worth using. No lectures, no deficit-speak. We’re here for the neurospiciness.
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Clinically rigorous
Our psychologists all have experience working with ADHD. Our assessments follow the Australian Guidelines for ADHD and use validated assessment measures alongside clinical interviews and professional judgement. We pride ourselves in high quality, comprehensive, assessments.
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Designed to be used
Our reports and diagnostic letters are written in plain language, including concrete recommendations, written with GPs, psychiatrists, and workplaces in mind.
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Fast start
Appointments available without a long waitlist. We hate long wait-times and prefer to close our waitlist entirely when our clinicians are at capacity. So if you see us advertising that we are open for assessments - good news - you won’t wait long!
What does an ADHD assessment involve?
Step 1: Initial consultation and history
In your first appointment, your psychologist will discuss your concerns, your history and consider together whether a formal ADHD assessment is appropriate for you. This session is critical as it will enable your psychologist to formulate an appropriate assessment methodology specifically for your circumstances.
Step 2: Comprehensive clinical assessment
You'll complete standardised psychometric measures and background questions followed by structured, in-depth sessions with your psychologist covering attention, organisation, impulsivity, emotional regulation, and how these patterns have played out through school, work, and relationships. We also screen for conditions that can look like ADHD or travel alongside it, such as: anxiety, depression, autism, sleep issues, PTSD, PMDD because getting this right means ruling things in and out. Where possible, we gather perspective from someone who knew you in childhood and/or knows you well now, ADHD requires evidence of symptoms across your lifespan, not just today.
Step 3: Feedback session
We walk you through what we found in plain language: whether you meet the diagnostic criteria for ADHD, what else may be contributing, and what we'd recommend next. You'll have room to ask everything.
Step 4: Your diagnosis in writing
A comprehensive, plain-language letter or report you can use. Where ADHD significantly impacts your functioning, the written documentation can support an application for workplace adjustments, university and study support, and medication pathways with a GP or psychiatrist.
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ADHD isn't diagnosed from a checklist or online questionnaire alone. A comprehensive assessment looks at the whole picture, including your developmental history, current experiences, patterns of functioning and how these difficulties affect everyday life.
It also considers differential diagnosis: whether other factors or conditions could better explain your experiences, or whether ADHD may be occurring alongside them. We use validated assessment measures alongside clinical interviews and professional judgement to build a clearer picture.
Our assessments follow the Australian Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline for ADHD, developed by the Australian ADHD Professionals Association (AADPA).
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We use multiple tools and diagnostic interview to rule out other conditions that may better explain a client’s presentation. Some of the assessment tools we use:
Diagnostic Interview for ADHD in Adults (DIVA 5)
Conners Adult ADHD Rating Scales (CAARS)
Barkley Adult ADHD Rating Scale (BAARS-IV)
Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11)
Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS-25)
Weiss Functional Impairment Rating Scale – Self (WFIRS-S)
Standardised, validated measures are what separate a proper assessment from an opinion, and ours align with the national AADPA guideline.*
*Australian ADHD Professionals Association (AADPA). (2022). Australian Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Melbourne: NHMRC-approved.
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We provide comprehensive ADHD assessments for adults (18+) at our Thornbury clinic in Melbourne's inner north. Our assessments are conducted by psychologists experienced in working with neurodivergent adults and follow the Australian Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline for ADHD.
Prefer to stay home? The assessment can also be completed via secure Telehealth, with appointments available Australia-wide.
What you’ll get from your assessment
We offer
✔ Thorough, multi-session assessments
✔ Aligned with Australia's ADHD guidelines
✔ Immediate availability
✔ Transparent fees
✔ Secure Telehealth available
✔ Therapy pathway after diagnosis
You get
✔ Honest answers, either way
✔ Faster clarity on symptoms and diagnosis
✔ Access to appropriate therapy sooner
✔ A report that psychiatrists & GPs can use
✔ A deeper understanding of yourself
ADHD Assessment Fees
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We do not ask you to commit to an assessment before you have met your clinician. You book and pay for an initial consultation first. If, at the end of it, you and your clinician agree that a formal assessment is the right step, you book the assessment separately.
Our psychologists are trained to administer cognitive and diagnostic assessments. Fees vary depending on type of assessment and clinician level who facilitated the process.
Our fees are based on the clinical time of the practitioner you see, at their hourly clinical rate. Sometimes, an assessment would benefit from additional hours, including additional parent or informant interview, which is also at request of the client. Accordingly, additional sessions/hours, are billed transparently at the clinician’s standard rate.
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Your initial consultation is charged as a standard session, and payment will be taken on the same day.
When you book the assessment a 50% deposit will be required to credit against your assessment fee.
The balance of the assessment fee will be required prior to the release of the report and the final feedback session.
We will send you a secure payment form during the intake process. Once completed the deposit will be processed.Payment is processed securely through our practice software; see our Fees page for how payment and rebates work generally.
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Rebates may apply to the initial consultation with a valid GP referral and Mental Health Treatment Plan, and to therapy sessions after assessment. The assessment itself is privately billed.
Fee Guide
| SERVICE | CLINICIAN HOURS | FEE | MEDICARE |
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| Initial consultation: Discuss your concerns and history to decide whether an assessment is appropriate for you. | 50 mins |
$260
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Rebate may apply with MHTP
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| Complete adult ADHD assessment: All sessions including written report and feedback session to discuss the findings. | 7 hours |
$1,390
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Not rebatable
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All fees are GST-free. Clients who proceed to a full assessment pay $1,650 in total.
FAQs
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This certainly depends on the type of clinician you see and quality of assessment. Comprehensive assessments in Melbourne (involving multiple sessions) are $1-3K. Cheaper-looking options are either excluding any written diagnosis or does not involve several hours of session time (e.g. a single telehealth interview). Always check what's included and the clinician’s credentials when comparing prices.
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Free online quizzes could flag whether an assessment is worth pursuing, but they can't diagnose ADHD and most simply weren't built to. Nothing that quick or purely self-report is able to capture the complexity of a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition. A clinical assessment involves a trained psychologist, validated measures, your developmental history, observations, and differential diagnosis.
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No, you can book an assessment directly. A GP referral however can be used for the initial session and the feedback session to claim a medicare rebate.
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Yes, the complete process is available via secure video call Australia-wide.
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You might not. We pride ourselves on being a service with integrity that will give you the truth based on our clinical review. You'll leave with a clearer picture of what is going on and recommendations that fit. That's still a good outcome, and we'd rather give you an honest answer than a convenient one.
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ADHD and autism commonly co-occur, and our psychologists do screen for ASD in their ADHD assessment. However, we currently do not conduct formal assessment and diagnosis of ASD. This is because, the gold standard for ASD assessment is a comprehensive assessment of it’s own, involving criteria for the lead clinician and mutlidisciplinary agreement. If you see a cheap option for combined ASD/ADHD or ASD out there, best to enquire about the process being followed. Here are the current nationwide guidelines.
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Yes. Psychologists are qualified to assess and diagnose ADHD in Australia. If you later pursue medication, a psychiatrist will conduct their own review. Our report is written to support exactly that process.
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That's a conversation for a psychiatrist or your GP after diagnosis. We can't prescribe, but your report smooths that path. Therapy for ADHD (building systems, managing emotional regulation, working with your attention rather than against it) is something we do provide, and evidence supports non-medication approaches as part of good ADHD care. "Evidence supports psychological interventions as an evidence-based part of ADHD care for adults. (BMJ Best Practice, 2024; NICE NG87, 2019; systematic review: Knouse & Safren, 2020).
Ready for a clear answer?
Take the first step with a short intake form and we’ll match you with the right psychologist for an assessment.