Clinical Psychological Assessment

Psychologists administer a variety of assessments and tests to gather information about an individual's psychological functioning, personality traits, cognitive abilities, emotional state, and more. These assessments help psychologists diagnose conditions, plan treatment, and gain a better understanding of a person's overall mental and emotional well-being. Here are some common types of assessments Your Kind of Happy will often administer:

Genetic and Dietary Testing

Why We Use MaxGen Genetics & Everlywell Food Sensitivity Testing in Mental Health Treatment

At Your Kind of Happy, we integrate MaxGen genetic testing and Everlywell food sensitivity panels as part of our holistic mental health approach. Why? Because your mental health isn’t just in your head—it’s deeply connected to your body. Understanding how your body functions on a genetic and metabolic level gives us powerful insight into what could be fueling emotional distress, cognitive challenges, and treatment resistance.

🧬 Genetics & Mental Health: Why MaxGen Matters

MaxGen testing offers a detailed analysis of your genetic blueprint—specifically, how your body processes key nutrients, neurotransmitters, and detoxification pathways that are vital for brain health.

For conditions like:

• ADHD: Variants in dopamine and methylation genes (e.g., COMT, MAOA, MTHFR) can influence focus, mood regulation, and stimulant sensitivity. MaxGen helps us understand how your brain handles neurotransmitters naturally, so we can better tailor supplement or lifestyle support.

• Depression & Anxiety: Genes that regulate serotonin, GABA, inflammation (e.g., TNF-alpha), and nutrient absorption (like B-vitamins and magnesium) often show altered functioning in individuals struggling with mood issues. Knowing your specific polymorphisms helps us optimize what your brain may be missing—or overloaded with.

• PTSD: Trauma is deeply tied to inflammation and poor stress resilience. Genetic testing may reveal issues in the HPA axis, glutathione detox pathways, or mitochondrial support systems—giving us a blueprint to rebuild your brain-body system for recovery.

MaxGen helps eliminate the guesswork—empowering more personalized, effective treatment options.

🥦 Food Sensitivities & the Brain: The Role of Everlywell Testing

The gut-brain axis is now well-established in psychiatric literature. Up to 90% of serotonin is produced in the gut, and chronic inflammation from food sensitivities can impair both gut function and mental well-being.

Everlywell food sensitivity testing allows us to identify delayed immune responses (IgG reactivity) to common foods—reactions that can trigger:

• Brain fog

• Mood swings

• Irritability

• Digestive issues

• Sleep disturbances

These are especially common in individuals with ADHD, anxiety, and PTSD, where inflammation, poor nutrient absorption, and dysbiosis (gut microbiome imbalances) are already at play. By identifying and removing triggering foods, clients often experience significant symptom relief—including better focus, mood regulation, and emotional stability.

🌿 What Eating Right Can Do

With the results from MaxGen and Everlywell testing, we create a customized nutrition and supplement plan that supports:

• Neurotransmitter balance (dopamine, serotonin, GABA)

• Stress response modulation (cortisol balance, HPA axis repair)

• Gut healing (reducing permeability and inflammation)

• Enhanced cognition & emotional resilience

This is not about “diets” or generic supplements—it’s about feeding your brain based on your body's unique needs.

🔄 Personalized Mental Health Starts in the Body

Mental health isn’t one-size-fits-all. These tools allow us to approach your healing journey with precision and depth—especially for clients who have “tried everything” and still feel stuck. When we address the underlying physiological contributors, therapy works better, and you feel better—naturally.

Personality Testing

Personality testing is a crucial component in understanding an individual's psychological makeup. Personality itself is composed of a complex integration of beliefs, behaviors, moods, and thought structures that collectively help a person organize and interpret their reality. These cognitive and emotional frameworks serve as the lens through which experiences are filtered, enabling individuals to navigate daily life effectively.

However, these same structures can sometimes become maladaptive or compromised, leading to dysfunction in how one processes and responds to their environment. One influential theory likens personality to a person’s psychological immune system. Just as a weakened physical immune system leaves the body vulnerable to illness, a compromised personality system can result in symptoms such as depression or anxiety. These symptoms should not be viewed in isolation but rather as indicators of deeper, underlying disturbances within the personality system itself.

Personality assessments like the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the Big Five Personality Inventory are valuable tools in this respect. They evaluate patterns of behavior, emotional functioning, and personality traits, offering a structured insight into how an individual’s psychological immune system might be operating. These assessments provide critical support in diagnosing various mental health disorders by identifying maladaptive patterns that may not be immediately visible. In this way, personality testing is key not only in understanding surface-level symptoms but also in addressing the foundational issues affecting mental health.

ADULT ADHD & Attention/Memory Testing

These assessments evaluate an individual's ability to focus, sustain attention, and shift attention. They are commonly used in diagnosing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Adult ADHD Assessment typically involves three Assessments to include a Cognitive Battery (including various neurological testing exercises), and two self-report inventories (Brown Executive Function/Attention Scales, and Delis Rating of Executive Functioning -Adult). Once tested pt. will receive 1-2 months of a computerized training program that trains specific areas that are deficit (i.e. selective attention, processing speed, visual short-term memory). Therapy sessions are aimed at put in place healthy lifestyle changes (i.e. diet, exercise regime, supplements, focus exercises). Lastly, pts are retested after implementing changes to receive outcome scores and monitor progress.

Assessment Fees (Updated Aug 30th, 2023)

Brief Report: Consists of a 90-minute assessment, a brief 1-2 page report and feed back $460.

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Standard Assessment

Standard Assessment: Includes a 60 minutes interview, followed by a 2 hour structured assessment, a detailed report, background information, standardized test results, as well as psychologist recommendations and a 50 minute feedback session $1400.

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Holistic Comprehensive Assessment

Comprehensive Assessment: This assessment includes other members of our interdisciplinary team, which covers baseline health data the assessment has two portions:

Functional Health Portion:

Food sensitivity panel (dried blood-spot test)

Genetic Testing (examining your genes for any common health related issues)

Vitamin Panel (examining your vitamin levels).

Clinical Portion (Performed by Your Kind of Happy LLC.):

60 minute initial interview

Two 120-minutes structured personality assessments (other assessments may be includes depending on client)

Report scoring, detailed report information, standardized test results, and psychologist recommendations (as well as recommendations from other team members)

Total fee $2500.