For Your Information
Illness and Appointments |
Safety and the health of your family and my other clients is very important to me. With that in mind, please read the following protocol. 1) When you arrive, please remain in your car or outside of the building and text me to notify me that you have arrived. I will then reply or come outside to show you in. 2). If you or a family member arriving at the building are not well, please stay home out of courtesy for my other clients and their well being 3) If you have been recently ill and are in the first days of recovery, please consider wearing a mask at all times inside the building. If you need a break from wearing the mask or need to consume something, please take a break and go outside to remove your mask. 4) And finally, if you learn after a session that you had been exposed or test positive for Covid-19 prior to the session, please have the courtesy to notify the therapist/evaluator by text, email or phone message immediately. Thank you so much for helping keeping my other clients safe.
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Typical steps for a Psychological Evaluation
You will receive a text notifying you of the request for an evaluation, or you yourself have contacted Dr. Barneclo for psychological testing. The first step is to schedule an introductory session by text or email. The evaluator will provide the next available time slot. This is a one-hour billable session, where history, symptoms, and specific questions to be answered by testing are discussed. This may occur in person or via Zoom, and all members of the family are encouraged to be present but are not required, including a child who will be evaluated. Following this discussion, you will plan the in-person testing sessions with the evaluator. A typical testing session is between 2.5 and 5 hours, depending on the complexity of questions being answered by testing. Please consider the age and attention span of the individual when planning the testing session. Younger children may need to have four separate one hour sessions, whereas adolescents and adults may be able to complete all of the testing in one half-day session. Some individuals do best with some hybrid in between these two extreme options. I will work with you to determine an appropriate and flexible schedule. A report of the results and conclusions will then be sent to you by email approximately one month after the final day of testing, give or take a week or two. You will be reminded to reach out via text if you would like a 30-minute zoom session to review the results, clarify your questions, and brainstorm solutions. I strongly encourage a follow-up session to review the results, as they can easily be misconstrued by non-professionals. I enjoy having a discussion of your thoughts on the results. I do not pretend to have all of the precise answers, but this evaluation can give an important professional snapshot of functioning at the time of testing, and can help future professionals understand functioning and ways to intervene in a helpful manner.
Attendance Policy
There are many clients in need, and there is typically a wait list. In this regard, if you miss an appointment, someone else in need who would have liked that time slot is being denied service. In the spirit of respecting all of the clients and their needs, I ask that you notify me with at least 24-hour notice if you plan to miss a session. In that way, I can attempt to help another client during the missed time. If I am not notified, and there is no emergency, out of respect for my other clients, I do charge a full session fee of $175. This fee is utilized to support clients in prioritizing their mental health, and out of respect for the needs of others. I do hope that you understand that these boundaries are important in a business caring for so many. Of course, all Medi-cal (Gold Coast) clients are exempt from the fee per the state insurance policy, but I do reserve the right to ask that those clients seek out other providers, or could opt to place them on the wait list. Please be well and do not hesitate to cancel if there is an emergency or other concern. I want you to be well and to stay healthy. Best to you all!