Collaborative therapeutic assessment is such a cool thing. So often, testing and evaluation is viewed as a critical, deficit-based process (“You’re going to tell me I’m crazy!?”). Megan and I have a great conversation about how to use therapeutic assessment as an intervention tool to support clients rather than a punitive or scary experience.

Cool Things Mentioned in This Episode

* In Our Clients’ Shoes: Theory and Techniques of Therapeutic Assessment (affiliate link)

* Collaborative / Therapeutic Assessment: A Casebook and Guide (affiliate link)

* Therapeutic Assessment website

* www.pariconnect.com

* PAI

About Dr. Megan Warner

Megan Warner, PhD is a clinical psychologist and the owner and founder of Guilford Psychological Services, which is currently in the process of being developed. After  running her private practice for a number of years, Megan saw a need to form a central location where individuals throughout the region could find compassionate, nonjudgmental, and scientifically-driven providers that offer high quality individual and group support to help people find and reclaim themselves and build the lives they yearn to have.  Guilford Psychological Services expands upon Megan’s thriving private practice, and will offer individualized, high quality, high end support, informed and designed by science.

Megan specializes in trauma, mindfulness based approaches, perinatal and postpartum mood and anxiety, and collaborative therapeutic assessment. In addition to running her practice, she is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. She is also a wife and a mother to two young children.  For more information, visit: https://meganwarnerphd.com or www.guilfordpsychologicalservices.com.

About Dr. Jeremy Sharp

Jeremy Sharp, PhD is a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that he founded in 2009 and has grown to include five other clinicians. He earned his undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting his Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, Jeremy specializes in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents.

As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, Dr. Sharp provides private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow testing services in their practices. Jeremy lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with his wife (also a therapist) and tw...