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Psychological Testing Burlington, Vermont
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Explore targeted psychological evaluations designed to clarify concerns, guide treatment planning, and support meaningful personal growth. These services help individuals understand their mental health conditions, build emotional resilience, and gain the insight needed to move forward with confidence.
Collaborative Assessment: Insight-Driven Testing with Real-World Impact
Collaborative Assessment is a short-term, insight-oriented psychological evaluation that helps you understand patterns in thinking, feeling, and behavior. This method blends testing with personalized feedback sessions, ensuring a thorough understanding of concerns related to mood, attention, identity, and relationships.
This assessment can stand alone or complement ongoing therapy, medication management, or a broader treatment plan. It provides clear answers, accurate diagnosis when needed, and a practical path toward better emotional regulation, decision-making, and well-being.
Comprehensive Independence and Interpersonal Skills Assessment (CIISA)
CIISA evaluates three core areas essential for daily functioning: independence skills, interpersonal style, and coping strategies. This psychological evaluation is ideal for mental health professionals, educators, supported-living programs, and families seeking a structured way to understand strengths and challenges.
The assessment highlights how an individual manages major life activities—decision-making, communication, adaptive skills, and emotional states—while providing supporting documentation that can aid academic success, workplace accommodations, and personalized intervention planning.
Adult ADHD Assessment: Clarity, Insight, and Actionable Strategies
This comprehensive psychological evaluation identifies the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral patterns associated with ADHD in adults. The process examines attention, executive functioning, and self-regulation to determine whether symptoms meet diagnostic criteria or overlap with anxiety, depression, or other mental health conditions.
You’ll receive a clear explanation of results, recommendations for focus and productivity, strategies for test-taking demands, and guidance for improving daily functioning—at work, in relationships, and across major life activities.
The Power of Psychological Assessment
Unlocking Personal Growth With Accurate, Insight-Driven Evaluation
Psychological assessments help clarify mental health conditions, identify learning disabilities, support testing accommodation requests, and guide effective treatment plans. A thorough evaluation provides essential insight into emotional states, cognitive patterns, and the nature of challenges that may substantially limit major life activities.
These evaluations also generate supporting documentation often required for schools, test takers, and organizations reviewing requests for testing accommodations.
This overview highlights three specialized assessments—Collaborative Assessment, CIISA, and Adult ADHD Assessment—each designed to help individuals understand themselves and move forward with confidence.
Collaborative Assessment: Deeping Insights to Improve Mental Health
Collaborative Assessment blends standardized testing with dialogue to help individuals understand their emotional patterns, relational dynamics, and daily stressors. Clients participate actively in interpreting their results, allowing for accurate diagnosis and actionable guidance.
This service is particularly helpful for individuals experiencing anxiety, mood changes, decision fatigue, interpersonal conflict, or difficulty understanding recurring behavioral patterns. The process equips clients with strategies to improve well-being in concrete, real-world contexts.
CIISA: Enhancing Independence and Interpersonal Skills
The CIISA assessment offers clarity about independence, communication, coping, and daily functioning. It identifies both strengths and barriers that may affect academic success, work performance, or supported-living needs.
With a focus on practical recommendations, CIISA assists mental health professionals, parents, educators, and program administrators in developing tailored support plans. The results provide a clear picture of a person’s interpersonal style, stress response, and capacity for self-direction.
Adult ADHD Diagnostic Assessment: Clarity and Focus
Designed for adults seeking answers about attention, focus, and emotional regulation, this evaluation examines symptoms that may influence productivity, learning, and daily routines. The assessment determines whether attention concerns stem from ADHD, anxiety, depression, or another mental health condition.
Results include strategies for organization, emotional regulation, work-related performance, and test-taking effectiveness, along with personalized recommendations that reflect real-world needs.
PsychAtWork Magazine: Insight Starts Here
PsychAtWork Magazine explores the psychology behind our most requested services. Whether you’re navigating attention concerns, independence skills, emotional regulation, or complex mental health conditions, these articles help you deepen self-understanding with clarity—not jargon.
Each piece is designed to illuminate patterns, offer perspective, and support your personal or academic goals.
Psychological Assessment FAQ
Receiving Testing Accommodations & Documentation Support
Many students and adults require psychological testing to obtain or maintain testing accommodations for academic or professional settings. As a licensed mental health provider, I complete thorough evaluations and provide supporting documentation when a physical or mental impairment substantially limits major life activities such as attention, reading, test taking, or emotional regulation.
Whether you are preparing for high-stakes exams, need updated test scores, or require additional information to address questions from a testing board, the process is structured, clear, and aligned with the Disabilities Act. Documentation can support accommodations such as double time, one-quarter time extensions, limited-distraction environments, or breaks for medical purposes such as blood sugar regulation.
This service helps students and professionals save time, obtain accurate results, and receive the accommodations they need.
Who These Psychological Evaluations Help
These psychological evaluations support individuals facing a wide range of concerns—from mental illness and mood disorders to attention, learning, and decision-making challenges. Assessments clarify whether symptoms reflect anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, or another mental impairment affecting daily functioning, academic performance, or interpersonal life.
This service is appropriate for students, professionals, and patients seeking educational clarity, mental health support, or a deeper understanding of their ability to manage stress and major life activities. Most people complete testing over multiple sessions, ensuring a comprehensive and accurate picture that can guide the next steps in treatment or personal development.
How Mental Health Professionals Use Collaborative Assessment in Treatment
Collaborative Assessment is a valuable resource for individuals already working with mental health professionals. Many therapists use this model to deepen ongoing therapy, clarify themes that feel “stuck,” or bring greater insight into patterns that are difficult to name in weekly sessions. The process supports both client and clinician by identifying how cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal factors shape daily functioning.
Assessments also provide clear referrals when diagnostic clarification is needed—especially in cases where ADHD, ASD, anxiety, mood disorders, or medical conditions may be overshadowing one another. Because Collaborative Assessment is designed to create shared understanding rather than a one-sided report, it becomes a practical tool for coordinating care, guiding treatment planning, and strengthening the therapeutic relationship as a whole.
Understanding Mental Health Conditions Through Accurate Psychological Testing
Psychological testing helps distinguish between mental health conditions that may present with overlapping symptoms. Many individuals seek an assessment when they feel unsure whether their experiences reflect ADHD, ASD, bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, or another concern affecting attention, mood, or daily functioning. A structured evaluation offers clear diagnostic criteria, identifies contributing factors, and provides guidance on next steps.
For those navigating uncertainty, assessments also help determine whether symptoms stem from a mental health condition, a medical issue, or a combination of both. This clarity ensures that treatment plans are grounded in accurate information and that additional documentation can be provided when needed for educational or medical purposes.
What to Expect From the Testing Process
Psychological testing is completed over one or more sessions depending on the common types of concerns being evaluated. Before starting, you’ll receive clear guidance on how to prepare, what tools or measures will be used, and how long each step typically takes. Most evaluations require several hours to ensure accurate test scores and a reliable understanding of the subject being assessed.
As a credentialed mental health provider, all procedures meet professional standards and can be used for medical purposes, academic planning, or workplace documentation. At the end of the process, you’ll receive a written report with results, interpretations, and the additional information needed for schools, testing agencies, or healthcare providers. Extra time is built in to address any additional questions or concerns, ensuring that nothing feels rushed or limited.
About Cody Thomas Rounds
Providers Credentials:
Cody Thomas Rounds is a Clinical Psychologist-Master based in Burlington, Vermont, specializing in psychological evaluations, ADHD assessments, and neurodivergent mental health support. With extensive experience working across New England in clinical, vocational, and advocacy settings, Cody provides thorough evaluations, accurate diagnosis, and clear documentation for academic, medical, and psychological purposes.
Clinical Approach:
Cody’s approach integrates deep clinical understanding with a focus on autonomy, emotional resilience, and meaningful personal development. Drawing from specialized training in Collaborative Assessment, each evaluation goes beyond a traditional clinical report. Instead, the process emphasizes client-centered interpretation, collaborative dialogue, and a shared exploration of your patterns, strengths, and challenges.
Rather than simply delivering results, the assessment involves working together to make sense of the findings in a way that feels personal, accurate, and empowering. The written report reflects this approach as well—pairing clear psychological conclusions with language that honors your lived experience, supports insight, and translates directly into meaningful next steps.
When needed, assessments also include additional documentation for educational, medical, or workplace purposes, ensuring that the personal depth of the evaluation is matched by the practical support required to move forward.