“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
- informed educational placement and school admission decisions
- identification of developmental, learning, and support needs
These assessments consider cognitive, developmental, emotional, behavioural, and contextual factors relevant to successful participation in educational settings.
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, neurodivergent, and medically affected individuals. Services include disability and functional capacity assessments, incapacity evaluations for employers and employees, support planning, and recommendations relating to reasonable accommodation, accessibility, and participation in educational, vocational, workplace, and organisational settings.
Work is informed by a strengths-based, rights-aware, and systems-focused approach, with attention to both individual abilities 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.
Independent assessments and expert consultation for legal, insurance, employment, and educational matters, including:
- Road Accident Fund (RAF) claims
- Medical negligence matters
- Loss of support claims
- Neurological and developmental injuries
- Disability-related matters
- Fitness-for-work and incapacity evaluations
- Educational disputes and accommodation matters
Assessments focus on the cognitive, developmental, educational, psychological, and functional impact of injury, illness, disability, or adverse life circumstances, with recommendations regarding support, accommodation, educational provision, and future vocational needs.
Specialised services for families navigating separation, divorce, or co-parenting challenges. Parenting Coordination assists parents in implementing court orders and parenting plans, assisting with the management of child-related disputes, improving communication, and reducing conflict. Support is also provided with the development, review, and refinement of parenting plans to ensure they remain child-centred, practical, and developmentally appropriate.
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.