“He who has a WHY to live for can bear almost any HOW.”
– Viktor Frankl
Comprehensive assessments exploring:
- cognitive and intellectual functioning (including IQ)
- learning profiles and academic skills
- attention, executive functioning, and processing
- emotional, behavioural, and adjustment factors affecting learning and performance
Assessments are used to inform:
- learning support and accommodation planning
- educational and training pathways
- intervention recommendations
- long-term developmental or vocational planning
Assessments to support:
- readiness for formal schooling
- transitions between educational phases
- identification of developmental strengths and support needs
These assessments consider cognitive, developmental, emotional, and contextual factors relevant to successful engagement in learning environments.
Assessment-based guidance to support:
- subject choice and educational decisions
- career exploration and direction
- study, training, and vocational pathway planning
- career redirection following injury, illness, or disability
Assessments integrate abilities, aptitude, interests, values, and context to support realistic and inclusive decision-making across the lifespan.
Specialist assessment and consultation to support differently-abled and neurodivergent individuals, focusing on:
- cognitive and functional profiles
- access to education, training, and employment opportunities
- reasonable accommodation and support needs
- participation in educational, vocational, and organisational contexts
Work is informed by a strengths-based, rights-aware, and systems-focused approach, with attention to both individual ability and environmental demands.
Assessment and documentation to support reasonable accommodations and concessions in school, tertiary, and training environments, aligned with individual learning profiles and functional needs.
Specialist assessments conducted in the context of:
- adoption and surrogacy processes
- foster care and kinship care placements
- post-placement adjustment and permanency planning
Assessments are developmentally and attachment-informed, considering early experiences, relational patterns, adjustment, and ongoing support needs.
Educational, developmental, functional, and capacity-related assessments for medico-legal matters, including:
- Road Accident Fund (RAF) claims
- medical negligence cases
- neurological injury, birth-related complications, or developmental compromise
The focus is on functional and educational impact, future support and accommodation needs, and long-term developmental or vocational implications.
Developmentally informed, non-adversarial consultation to support parenting arrangements following separation, divorce, or family transition. Work focuses on the child’s educational, developmental, and emotional needs and may contribute to the development or refinement of parenting plans.
Consultative assessment and psychological input to support rehabilitation and recovery following brain injury, substance-related difficulties, medical events, or significant life disruption. Services focus on cognitive, functional, learning, and adjustment-related factors and may include assessment, return-to-learning or return-to-work planning, and consultation with families and multidisciplinary teams.
As a Registered Psychometrist, I provide psychometric assessment services within corporate and organisational contexts, including:
- cognitive and aptitude assessments
- recruitment screening and candidate profiling
- developmental, training, and capacity-related assessments
Services are conducted in accordance with HPCSA guidelines and may support recruitment, development, inclusion, and workforce planning.