We are glad to announce two things at once. Dr. Nikel Rogers-Wood is joining Haven Psychology Group, and with her arrival Haven now offers a service we have been asked for a great many times: psychological and psychoeducational evaluation.
We are taking inquiries now, and evaluations begin in October.
Why we added assessment
Therapy and evaluation answer different questions. Therapy asks what helps. An evaluation asks what is actually going on.
Those questions often arrive in the same conversation. A bright child is failing anyway and nobody can say why. An adult has collected several diagnoses over the years and none of them ever quite fit. A college student needs documentation a disability office will accept, and has a few weeks to get it. In each case, more effort is not the missing ingredient. An accurate answer is.
Without one, people can spend years working on the wrong thing. Attention difficulties get treated as ADHD when what is driving them is anxiety, or disrupted sleep, or a reading disorder nobody screened for. That is the cost of guessing, and it is usually paid in time.
A good evaluation replaces guessing with a description specific enough to act on. Not a label, and not a number, but a profile: where someone is genuinely strong, where they are not, how those two things interact, and what would actually help.
Meet Dr. Rogers-Wood
Dr. Rogers-Wood is a licensed psychologist whose work centers on psychological assessment. She earned her PhD in Counseling Psychology and has practiced for more than twenty years, across private practice, university counseling centers, and clinical leadership at a group practice. She has supervised and trained psychologists and trainees in assessment, and she is licensed in Florida and Texas and holds PSYPACT authorization.
Her approach starts with the question rather than the battery. She establishes what you actually want to understand, then selects measures capable of speaking to it, rather than administering a standard set and reporting whatever it happens to produce. She takes a strengths-based view, so that a report reflects the whole person rather than a list of difficulties.
Her reports are written to be read, by you, by a school, by a treating clinician, and to lead somewhere. Feedback is a conversation rather than a verdict delivered at the end, and the recommendations are meant to still be useful months later.
Assessment from both sides
Something less common in her background matters here in ordinary, practical ways. Alongside evaluating clients, Dr. Rogers-Wood has worked in psychological test development: the science behind how measures are built, standardized, interpreted, and turned into tools psychologists can use responsibly.
Knowing what a measure was designed to detect, where its limits sit, which instrument genuinely fits a particular referral question, and how much weight a single score can reasonably carry is the difference between selecting measures and reaching for the same battery out of habit.
What an evaluation can answer
- ADHD and executive functioning, including whether attention difficulties are ADHD at all or something else producing the same picture
- Learning disorders and dyslexia, clarifying why someone is struggling academically and what would help
- Giftedness and cognitive ability, described as the shape of a profile rather than a single number
- College and academic accommodations, with documentation written for the office that has to act on it
- Diagnostic clarification, where several conditions overlap and the picture has never quite resolved
Evaluations are offered for ages 8 through 64.
What the process looks like
It starts with a free 15-minute consultation. That conversation is partly for you and partly for us. Sometimes the honest answer is that testing is not the right next step, and it is better to say so before anyone has committed to anything.
Testing itself takes place in person at Haven’s Wesley Chapel office. The intake interview and the feedback session can both be held by video, so for most people the trip is limited to the testing appointments themselves.
Evaluations are offered on a private-pay, out-of-network basis, and we provide a superbill you can submit to your insurer. You will have the anticipated fee in writing before the evaluation begins.
One thing we would rather say plainly than leave you to discover: comprehensive autism evaluation is not part of this service. Where that is what is needed, we are glad to help identify other options.
Now taking inquiries
If any of the questions above sound like the one you have been carrying, two pages will tell you more.
- Psychological Testing & Evaluation covers what an evaluation involves, what we assess, and how the process works.
- Dr. Nikel Rogers-Wood’s profile sets out her background, her approach, and what she evaluates.
We are glad she is here, and glad to be able to offer this.