At the Center, we treat children, adolescents, young adults, and families whose clinical conditions are amenable to evidence-based treatment. Dr. Koslowitz and her associates are trained at the post-doctoral level in a variety of evidence-based practices, including but not limited to:

Dr. Koslowitz and her associates specialize in psychological evaluation of children, adolescents and young adults.

If we don’t know what’s wrong, how can we fix it?

The goal of a psychological evaluation is to clarify exactly why a child is having difficulties in school, at home, or in the peer group, develop a treatment plan that is directly linked to those deficits, and to create recommendations for the school, the home (a “Parenting Plan”) and for therapy.

When a child is struggling, therapy and school interventions can sometimes feel like a shot in the dark. A therapist will try one approach, if it doesn’t work, the therapist will try another. Meanwhile, life is progressing and the child is falling further behind. Using a targeted diagnostic approach, this type of experimentation can be eliminated.

With a psychological evaluation, not only do we discover what’s “wrong” with the child, we also can discover what’s right with the child.

We want to know what this child’s strengths are, because we can use those strengths to ameliorate the child’s deficits.

Aside from intellectual assessment, neurodevelopmental assessment, projective assessment, and emergent personality assessment, the psychological evaluation we provide is much more detailed. We will assess the child’s learning style, processing preferences, motivational style, and emotion regulation style. For example, if a child is a visual learner, a purely language-based therapy is not going to be the most efficient way to help him learn. Social skills therapy using cartooning will be much more effective than standard models.