Leah Schorr

My path to this work began with children and adolescents. For years, I worked as a school psychologist and case manager and interned conducting neuropsychological evaluations, sitting with young people who were struggling with anxiety, ADHD, autism, learning differences, and challenges with social, communication, and executive functioning skills. What I saw again and again was how much changed for a person once they finally understood why things had always felt hard for them. As I continued, I became especially drawn to autism assessment. So many autistic adults have spent their whole lives being misunderstood—masking, self-blaming, or being told nothing was wrong when they knew something didn't fit. I specialize in evaluations because I believe a thorough, affirming diagnosis can be genuinely life-changing: it replaces years of confusion with clarity, and self-criticism with self-understanding.

I approach every evaluation with the belief that my job is to understand a person, not to catalog what's "wrong" with them. I'm trained across the full range of psychological and diagnostic testing, and I use that toolkit carefully and individually—but the testing is only part of it. I want to understand each person's history, strengths, and the way they experience the world, and I bring a straightforward, honest style to that process so clients always know where they stand and what their results actually mean. My goal is that you walk away from an evaluation with me not just with a diagnosis, but with a clearer picture of yourself and concrete, usable insight into how to help yourself moving forward. I hold that space to be warm and nonjudgmental, because understanding yourself should feel like relief, not judgment.