I offer the following assessments online or face to face:

ADHD

An ADHD assessment involves an interview with the client and a caregiver from infancy, preferably a parent. If a parent is not available another family member who has good knowledge of the client from childhood is acceptable.

Before the assessment meeting, you will be sent some questionnaires for you and a close family member or partner to complete and return to us. The assessment is carried out with your chosen relative and last 2-3 hours. If your relative cannot attend with you, we could organise another time to speak face to face, via telephone or online.

The cost of an ADHD assessment with a comprehensive report and a follow-up session to discuss your report is: £1100

Please note: If you are diagnosed with ADHD and would like to try medication to help manage your symptoms, it is necessary to have a consultation with a psychiatrist with expertise in ADHD. You will not require another assessment, but your psychiatrist and GP will create a ‘shared care agreement’ to prescribe and monitor your ADHD medication so that you can have an NHS prescription.

Also, it is wise to enquire with your NHS GP if a private diagnosis of ADHD will be recognised and treated by your practice, as not all practices do.

ASD

An ASD assessment involves an interview (with additional tasks/activities) with the client and a separate interview with a caregiver from infancy, preferably a parent. If a parent is not available another family member who has good knowledge of you from early childhood is acceptable.

Before the assessment meeting, you will be sent some questionnaires for you and a relative or partner to complete and return to us. The client assessment last approximately 2 hours and the developmental assessment with your relative lasts 2-3 hours.

We can offer online client assessments under extenuating circumstances, as it is preferable to carry out these assessments face-to-face. If your relative cannot attend a face-to-face interview, we can offer online and telephone assessment interviews.

The cost of an ASD assessment with a comprehensive report and a follow up session to hand over your report is: £1500

People require medico-legal reports and psychological assessments for a variety of different reasons. They may have been badly affected by an accident, or workplace negligence, or it may be that they need an expert witness to testify as to the symptoms they are experiencing, and the impact on their lives.

Sometimes circumstances arise where people have committed crimes and need a psychologist to explain how an illness or condition might have affected their behaviour.

It is important that these complex issues are explained in an understandable way to all the people involved, which requires a range of very specialised skills and attention to detail, in addition to specific professional tools.

Medico-legal and court assessments are often anxiety provoking processes that take place at quite traumatic times in a person’s life. Dr Nicholas’s approach to all clients is one of sensitivity with an awareness of the challenges that such processes can involve, providing an appropriate balance between empathy and objectivity.

Dr Nicholas has specialism as a psychologist in the area of neurodevelopmental conditions such as Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and offers expert assessment and opinion regarding these conditions.

Rates:

£170 per hour

Related Links:

• Terms and Conditions for Acceptance of Legal Instructions
• Initial Meeting
• Psychological Therapy
• Support and Guidance
• Helplines
• Contact Us

Dr Nicholas is available for the supervision of other psychologists and psychotherapists.

Supervision sessions last for 1 hour and can be held face to face in Lowestoft (Suffolk), online using Zoom, telephone, or a mixture of these.

Rates:

£125 for a 1 hour supervision session

Related Links:

• Terms and Conditions for Supervision
• Contact Us

 

The relationship between a patient and therapist has been shown to be the most important factor for successful work together. Therefore, it is important that you feel safe and comfortable so that you can talk openly about your problems and concerns.

To allow you some time to consider this, you will be offered a 15 minute phone call free of charge to have a short chat about what you would like to get out of therapy and the therapy we offer.

After your phone call you may wish to try an initial session, but you are under no obligation to do so.

An initial session can help you establish if you feel comfortable with a therapist. If you do and wish to proceed with therapy, it can be helpful to have a clear plan stipulating the number of therapy sessions you might want or need. This can allow a therapist and patient to work towards a clear goal in a given time.

However, if at any point, you decide you cannot or do not want to proceed with or continue with therapy, we will understand completely and not be offended.

Please see the Resources section (links below) for information on each type of therapy offered.

We are pleased to offer online and in-person sessions.

Rates:

A 1-hour therapy session £125

We offer a limited number of sessions at lower rates on a sliding scale for people on a lower income.

Dr Nicholas is also registered with the private practice register and accepts referrals from private medical insurance companies.

An Important Note About Confidentiality

All clients and patients should feel safe and comfortable being honest and open with their psychologist or therapist in the knowledge that their personal information and anything discussed in sessions is private and confidential.

However, as psychologists and therapists we are supervised in the work we do with all patients to ensure our professionalism and be able to offer the best assessment, support and treatment we can. This means that around every 4 weeks we have meetings with another psychologist or therapist who offers advice and opinions about the work we do with all our patients. This is also confidential, and our supervisors do not know identifying details of any of our patients.

We are also professionally and legally required to place the wellbeing of our patients as priority, but also have a responsibility to protect the public. This means that if a patient gives a psychologist or therapist any reason to believe that they are at risk of harm or that they pose a risk to anyone else then we are legally obliged to breach confidentiality.

Related Links:

• Terms and Conditions of Therapy
• Confidentiality and Data Protection
• Support and Guidance
• Helplines
• Contact Us