We are a neuropsychology clinic dedicated to assessing adults, children and adolescents with suspected autism, ADHD, or AuDHD, including complex neurodevelopmental presentations and high-masking females.
Assessing neurodevelopment well means understanding that ADHD, autism, and AuDHD often present with co-occuring presentations. We are also passionate about learning disorders such as dyslexia and dysgraphia. These disorders commonly present when ADHD, autism, and AuDHD are present and make a difference to the intervention plan.
A deep understanding of how learning develops in the brain and in practice is part of what sets us apart, and parents often present with concerns about academic underachievement without knowing how to help their child.
In-depth assessments help us understand the underlying causes of a learning difficulty, which is critical to ensuring the child gets evidence-based and effective support and/or reasonable accommodations.
Our work is grounded in clinical neuropsychology (described below) and informed by lived experience. We support individuals and families who are seeking understanding around long-standing patterns of thinking, learning, attention, and regulation, particularly where those patterns have been subtle, masked, or misunderstood.
We practise from a neurodiversity-affirming framework that recognises neurological difference while acknowledging real-world difficulty. Our role is not to simplify, minimise, or categorise, but to understand the whole person in context.
Many clients describe our team as clinicians who truly “get it”- professionals who pair deep clinical training with personal lived experience. We never compromise on diagnostic rigour or an evidence-based understanding of neurodevelopment; instead, lived experience broadens the lens through which we interpret diagnostic criteria.
By prioritising the effort and cost of functioning in a neurotypical world, we can better identify high-masking presentations. This insight is vital: without it, a clinician might overlook the very factors making life so challenging for a client, as well as their significant vulnerability to burnout.
Natasha is a neuropsychology registrar with postgraduate training centred on autism and complex neurodevelopmental profiles. She works across a range of complex presentations, with a strong focus on nuanced and overlapping profiles.
Her approach emphasises detailed history-taking, observation, and integrated understanding rather than reliance on test results alone.
Minji is a neuropsychology registrar with advanced training in neurodevelopmental assessment. She contributes to autism and neuropsychology assessments, with a particular interest in cognition, learning, attention, and executive functioning.
Her work reflects a strengths-based, neurodiversity-affirming approach grounded in careful clinical reasoning and thoughtful interpretation.
BPsych (Hons), MPsych (Clinical Neuropsychology)
Dani is a clinical neuropsychologist with extensive experience in neurodevelopmental assessment across the lifespan. Her work centres on autism, ADHD, AuDHD, learning differences, and intellectual functioning, with a particular focus on complex and co-occurring presentations.
She is well known for her work with high-masking profiles, including adult women and adolescents whose difficulties are often overlooked or misattributed. Dani’s clinical approach prioritises careful formulation, informed by both assessment data and lived experience.
Dani was awarded the Macquarie University Award for Academic Excellence in the Master of Clinical Neuropsychology. She also completed advanced research training in cognitive science through the Master of Research. Dani is a board-approved supervisor with AHPRA.
Dani also brings lived experience of neurodivergence, which informs her understanding of masking, burnout, and the cumulative impact of sustained compensation.
Clinical neuropsychologists are psychologists who have completed advanced postgraduate training in brain development, neuroanatomy, and the relationship between brain function and behaviour.
After undergraduate and honours training in psychology, clinical neuropsychologists complete a dedicated 2-year master’s degree focused on assessment of brain-based conditions, followed by 2 more years of a structured registrar program involving supervised diagnostic practice.
This pathway differs from clinical psychology training, which is primarily oriented towards mental health diagnosis and treatment for conditions such as anxiety or depression.
Clinical neuropsychology training places much greater emphasis on:
Understanding cognitive and neurological development
Working with complex and co-occurring neurodevelopmental presentations
Understanding the limits as well as the strengths of standardised tools
Interpreting assessment findings beyond surface-level performance to ascertain masking
This depth of training is especially relevant in autism and ADHD assessment, where presentations may be subtle, internally experienced, or masked over many years.
Many neurodivergent people appear to be functioning well on the surface. They may be articulate, academically capable, or socially attuned. But this does not come easily. They’re actually expending significant effort to maintain that functioning. It can be exhausting.
Neuropsychology training supports a way of thinking that looks beyond observable behaviour to understand underlying cognitive load, compensatory strategies (including masking), and sustainability.
This is particularly important for individuals whose experiences do not fit stereotyped or overt presentations of autism or ADHD, including high-masking females.
Our work is informed by an understanding that masking, effort, and adaptation often come at a cost – and that those costs are not always visible.
For us, neurodiversity-affirming practice means recognising each person as a whole individual with strengths, challenges, values, and goals.
It does not mean avoiding complexity, overlooking difficulty, or taking assessment scores at face value.
A specific trait is neither a strength nor a weakness until it is placed in context. We aim to understand how a person’s neurodivergence interacts with their environment and life demands, to identify areas of difficulty and recommend evidence-based strategies to ease distress and promote wellbeing.
