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What to Expect on the First Visit

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If you're wondering what the process is like, I try to keep things as streamlined and painless as possible. The whole thing is already overwhelming. Let's not make it more overwhelming with extra paperwork or extra apps or logins that don't work. No, none of that. Very basically, all I ask is that you sign the consent to treat form, and if you have any birth and development records, that you kindly bring those or send them to me prior to the actual intake.

Why do I ask for those? Well, those actually help me rule out any neurodevelopmental disorders. If you don't have them, that's fine. We can work without them.

If you have any sort of school records, that matters because the patient is never in a vacuum. It's always the system that you have to consider as a whole.

And then of course lab data, if you have any within the last year. If you don't, we can order it. It's fine. It's fine.

So what does the actual intake look like? First I would meet with the patient, then I meet with the parents, and then we all meet as a whole and come up with a treatment plan that looks at the whole picture. This treatment plan may include medications; it also may not. It really depends on the situation. But the whole point is to, like I said, look at the whole system and have patient buy-in. That's really the huge part. If I didn't answer anything, feel free to reach out. I have a Question Box in my links, or you can always just reach out to me. Thanks for listening.