Clarity Changes Everything.
The best care begins with understanding.
When you understand what's driving the challenges, you can make more informed decisions about what comes next.
Whether you're seeking answers for yourself or your child, our psychological assessments are designed to look beyond symptoms and diagnoses to understand the whole person: how they think, learn, process information, and experience the world.
The result? Meaningful diagnostic clarity, practical recommendations, and a coordinated plan for care.
It’s not about finding treatment.
It’s understanding what you’re treating.
Sometimes the biggest question is: "What should we do?"
"What's really going on?"
For some families, the questions begin early:
Why is reading so difficult?
Why do meltdowns seem to come out of nowhere?
Why does homework take hours when everyone else finishes in thirty minutes?
For others, the questions don't emerge until adulthood:
Why has staying organized always felt harder?
Why do certain situations feel overwhelming when they seem effortless for everyone else?
Why have strategies that work for other people never quite worked for me?
The answers aren't always obvious.
Different conditions can look remarkably similar on the surface.
ADHD
Mood Disorders
Anxiety
ADHD Mood Disorders Anxiety
Autism
Learning Differences
Executive Functioning Challenges
Autism Learning Differences Executive Functioning Challenges
Autism
Learning Differences
Executive Functioning Challenges
Autism Learning Differences Executive Functioning Challenges
ADHD
Mood Disorders
Anxiety
ADHD Mood Disorders Anxiety
ADHD, anxiety, autism, learning differences, executive functioning challenges, and mood disorders often overlap, making it difficult to know where one ends and another begins.
Without a clear understanding of what's happening, it's easy to spend years trying different approaches, hoping something finally works.
A comprehensive psychological assessment helps replace uncertainty with understanding, so the next decision isn't based on guesswork.
Looking Beyond the Label
A diagnosis can be incredibly valuable. But by itself, it rarely tells the whole story. A psychological assessment isn't simply about determining whether someone meets criteria for a diagnosis.
It's about understanding how they:
think,
learn,
process information,
regulate emotions,
solve problems,
and interact with the world around them.
That broader perspective matters.
Because two people with the same diagnosis can have very different strengths, challenges, and support needs.
What You’ll Gain
From A Psychological Assessment
Diagnostic clarity
Personalized recommendations
A deeper understanding of strengths
Practical next steps
Our psychological assessments are designed to look beyond labels and uncover the complete picture, providing practical insights that can guide meaningful support at home, at school, at work, and throughout everyday life.
Questions an Assessment Can Help Answer:
What Makes Philly Integrative Different?
Most psychological testing providers focus on answering one question:
"What diagnosis fits?"
We believe that's only the beginning.
Our goal is to understand the whole person and help you understand what those findings mean in everyday life.
That philosophy shapes every part of our practice; our psychological testing process is no different.
Comprehensive Perspective
We look beyond symptoms to understand how attention, learning, executive functioning, emotional health, cognition, and behavior work together.
Across the Lifespan
Children, teens, and adults all deserve answers. Our psychological assessments are designed to provide meaningful insights regardless of where someone is in life.
Actionable Next Steps
Every evaluation concludes with practical recommendations designed to help families and individuals move forward with confidence.
Integrated Care
Unlike many psychological testing providers, we're also an integrative psychiatric clinic. If additional support is recommended, you won't be left searching for the next step, we can often provide that care within our own multidisciplinary team.
Dr. Marielle Mathews, PsyD, NCSP
Licensed Psychologist & Nationally Certified School Psychologist
Philadelphia Integrative Psychiatry's Psychological Assessment Services are led by Dr. Marielle Mathews. With more than 20 years of experience in educational settings, her background bridges clinical psychology and school-based experience, helping children, adolescents, and young adults better understand their learning, attention, and developmental needs.
Dr. Mathews focuses on making evaluation findings meaningful beyond the assessment itself, translating clinical insights into practical recommendations that families, educators, and care teams can use.
The Evaluation Isn’t the End. It’s the Beginning.
Understanding should lead somewhere.
Many psychological assessments end with a lengthy report and a recommendation to find additional providers elsewhere.
Questions remain.
Families are left to figure out what comes next.
We believe that’s where the real work begins so we built this program differently.
Because Philadelphia Integrative Psychiatry brings multiple specialties together under one roof, your evaluation becomes the foundation for coordinated care, not the end of the conversation.
Depending on your needs, recommendations may include:
• Psychiatric medication management
• Individual therapy
• Executive function & parent coaching
• Autism & behavioral services
• Community resources
• School accommodations and advocacy
Instead of wondering what to do next, you'll leave with a plan designed around you or your child’s unique needs.
Psychological testing can identify challenges, but should also create momentum!
Assessment
Understanding
The PIP Clarity Profile™
Personalized Recommendations
Integrated Care
Ongoing Growth
Introducing The PIP Clarity Profile™
Receiving answers shouldn't require interpreting a 30+-page clinical report on your own.
In addition to your full evaluation report, you'll receive The PIP Clarity Profile™: a strengths-focused summary designed to help you quickly understand what matters most.
Built specifically for individuals, families, educators, and referring providers, it transforms complex evaluation findings into practical guidance you can actually use.
Key findings
Areas of strength
Diagnoses (when applicable)
Personalized recommendations
Next steps
Suggested care at Philly Integrative
Community resources
Action plan
Which Assessment Pathway is Right For You?
Whether you're seeking answers about attention, learning, autism, giftedness, or broader psychological concerns, we offer evaluations designed around the questions you're trying to answer.
Comprehensive Profile Assessment
Our recommended starting point when questions span more than one area. It looks across mood, attention, and autism together, includes an ADOS-2, and clarifies whether symptoms are best explained by one condition, several, or overlap between them. For children, teens, and adults.
Focused Assessment Options
When you have one specific question, a focused evaluation may be the better fit.
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ADHD Evaluation
Attention, focus, and executive function, for ages 6 and up
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ADOS-2 Autism Assessment
A focused autism assessment for children, teens, and adults.
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Psychoeducational Evaluation
Learning differences, dyslexia, giftedness, and twice-exceptional (2e) profiles.
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Testing Profile
SAT and ACT accommodations and full potential for high school students.
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Independent Educational Evaluation (IEE)
An independent second opinion on a school district’s evaluation
FAQs
Everyone Deserves to be Understood.
A psychological assessment begins with questions. It should end with clarity.
Whether you're seeking clarity for yourself or your child, our psychological testing services are designed to provide the understanding and recommendations needed to make confident, informed decisions.