Our Services
Your Time With Us
At Four Bridges Psychology, we offer a range of specialist support options and throughout your journey with us, we ensure that our work is tailored to your needs. We invite you to explore these options below and if you have any questions or would like to register for any of our Services, then please Contact Us. We would be happy to arrange a Consultation call with you and you can ask us any questions that you may have.
Once registered with Four Bridges Psychology, we will review and formally agree with you, your personalised pathway. When we arrange your appointments, any sensory accommodations and adjustments will be implemented for you, ensuring that your time with us is comfortable and tailored to your needs. Please do not hesitate to ask, at any point during your journey, if there is anything you need.
What We Offer
Diagnostic Service
At Four Bridges Psychology, we offer expert ASC and ADHD assessments for Adults, Children and Young People. Each of our assessments complies fully with the specified Guidelines issued by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) therefore meeting the standards for acceptance held by the NHS, Education, Training and Employing Organisations.
When features of Neurodiversity are confirmed as present and the need for a full diagnostic assessment is indicated, we are there to support you or your Child/ Young Person throughout our comprehensive assessment process. Our full Diagnostic assessments not only enable us to reach Diagnostic conclusions but enable a greater understanding of individual strengths as well as differences. Further, our person-centred recommendations aim to support you or your Child/ Young Person to feel empowered to progress.
We invite you to take a closer look at our diagnostic assessment processes below.
Therapy Service
At Four Bridges Psychology, we offer a range of therapeutic support for Children/ Young People and Adults. We offer a range of evidence-based psychological interventions which are delivered flexibly, in an adapted format, to suit your individual strengths and difficulties. We can support you to overcome, Anxiety, low mood, difficulties in building or maintaining positive and healthy relationships with others, difficulties understanding and/ or managing emotions or problems arising from behavioural reactions or patterns, as well as across many other areas. If you would like to find out more and see if we could be a ‘good fit’ for your needs, please do reach out and contact us.
Support for Organisations
At Four Bridges Psychology, we our highly experienced Consultant Clinical Psychologist can offer bespoke packages to meet your Organisations specific needs. Whether your Enquiry relates to Staff training, Workplace and Educational consultations, Strategic priorities such as Policy development or support for individual’s, please Contact Us to discuss your specific requirements and explore our offers.
Children and Young People’s ADHD & Autism Preliminary Diagnostic Assessment
Stage 1
We are here to support you and/or your Child/ Young Person throughout your journey with us. We appreciate that understanding the nature of your or your Child/ Young Person’s differences can be a challenging and confusing experience. This is why we provide a Preliminary Diagnostic Assessment. Within this assessment, we screen for a range of difficulties, including ASC, ADHD, Depression and Anxiety which is supplemented through information gathered through a detailed developmental history interview. This enables us to provide you with some early diagnostic clarification and these preliminary assessments enable us to determine whether a full diagnostic assessment is the most appropriate pathway for you or your Child/ Young Person.
As Parents/ Carers of the Child/ Young Person, we will ask you to fill out some questionnaires/ measures and return these to us before your appointment.
How your Child/ Young Person manages at School is also very important for us to understand. With your consent, we will send their Teacher and/or SENCo some questionnaires to complete as well as asking them specific questions about your Child/ Young Person’s strengths and challenges within this area of their life.
You and your Child/ Young Person will be invited to an appointment to meet with our Consultant Clinical Psychologist, who will focus upon gathering a detailed developmental history as well as gaining an understanding of challenges that the Child/ Young Person is experiencing.
Within this assessment, we will be screening for the presence of features of ADHD, Autistic Spectrum Conditions, Anxiety Disorders and Depression.
At the end of this preliminary assessment, we will be able to advise you as to whether a full diagnostic assessment for ADHD is appropriate for your Child/Young Person or alternatively, if there may be other factors which better explain the difficulties your Child/Young Person is experiencing.
If ADHD is not indicated, then we will provide recommendations for the most appropriate therapeutic interventions as well as support options.
If ADHD is indicated, then you will be given information about supporting your Child/Young Person to continue to our Full Diagnostic ADHD Service.
Children and Young People’s Full Diagnostic ADHD Service
Stage 2
You and your Child/ Young Person will be invited back for a further appointment with our Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
Within this appointment, your Child/ Young Person will be supported to complete a computerised test of continuous attention and following this, our Consultant Clinical Psychologist will then complete a full diagnostic interview with the Child/ Young Person and Parent/ Carer/ Family Member.
Stage 3
Within 2-3 weeks of the assessment, a full Diagnostic Report, including recommendations, will be sent to you. You and your Child/ Young Person will all be invited to attend a follow-up appointment with our Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
Stage 4
Within your follow-up appointment, all attendees will have the opportunity to discuss the outcomes of the assessment, ask any questions they may have and consider the recommendations that have been offered.
Children and Young People’s Autism Diagnostic Service
Stage 2
Parents/ Carer’s will be invited back for a further appointment with our Consultant Clinical Psychologist. Within this appointment, an Autism Diagnostic Interview will be completed. The ADI-R assessment is a detailed developmental history interview, used to specifically assess for Autism. This will take around two hours to complete.
Stage 3
Please note that Stage 2 & 3 can be arranged on the same day, or seperately if needed.
Your Child/ Young Person will be invited to attend an appointment with our Consultant Clinical Psychologist, to carry out an Autism Observational Assessment. The ADOS-2 is a standardised assessment of; communication, social interaction, restrictive and repetitive behaviours as well as play. The assessment includes tasks, questions and activities, taking around an hour and a half to complete.
Stage 4
Within 2-3 weeks of the assessment, you and your Child/ Young Person will be invited to a follow-up appointment. At this appointment we will share the outcomes of the assessment, share our conclusions and highlight our recommendations. There will be opportunities, throughout this appointment, to ask any questions and we will provide you with a full Diagnostic Report.
Adult ADHD and Autism Preliminary Diagnostic Assessment
Stage 1
We will ask you to fill out some questionnaires/ measures and return these to us before your appointment.
You will be invited to an appointment to meet with our Consultant Clinical Psychologist, who will gather a detailed developmental history from you as well as gaining an understanding of the challenges that you are currently experiencing.
We will be screening for the presence of features of ADHD, Autistic Spectrum Conditions, Anxiety Disorders and Depression.
At the end of this preliminary assessment, we will be able to advise you as to whether a full diagnostic assessment for ADHD is appropriate or alternatively, if there may be other factors which better explain the difficulties you are experiencing.
If ADHD is not indicated, then we will provide you with recommendations, for the most appropriate therapeutic interventions as well as support options.
If ADHD is indicated, then you will be given information about continuing to our Full Diagnostic ADHD Service. For this appointment, we would encourage you to bring someone with you, who knows you well and where possible, someone who has known you from childhood and across your adult years.
Adult Full Diagnostic ADHD Service
Stage 2
You and your person of choice will be invited back for a further appointment with our Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
Within this appointment, you will be supported to complete a computerised test of continuous attention and following this, our Consultant Clinical Psychologist will then complete a full diagnostic interview with you.
Stage 3
Within 2-3 weeks of the assessment, a full Diagnostic Report, including recommendations, will be sent to you and you will be invited to attend a follow-up appointment with our Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
Stage 4
We will provide you with a follow-up appointment, to give you the opportunity to discuss the outcomes of your assessment, ask any questions and jointly consider the recommendations that have been offered.
Adult Autism Diagnostic Service
Stage 2
You and your person of choice will be invited back for an appointment with our Consultant Clinical Psychologist. These appointments can be completed on the same day or split into two separate sessions.
Autism Diagnostic Interview: The ADI-R assessment is a detailed developmental history interview, used to specifically assess for Autism. This will take around two hours to complete.
Autism Diagnostic Observational Assessment: The ADOS-2 is a standardised assessment of; communication, social interaction, restrictive and repetitive behaviours as well as play. The assessment includes tasks, questions and activities, taking around an hour and a half to complete.
Stage 3
Within 2-3 weeks of the assessment, you as well as your person of choice will be invited to a follow-up appointment. At this appointment we will share the outcomes of your assessment, share our conclusions and highlight our recommendations. You will have the opportunity to ask any questions throughout this appointment and we will provide you with your full Diagnostic Report.
Find Us
Finding Four Bridges Psychology is easy—we’re conveniently located at Laird Health and Business Centre, First Floor, 320 Laird Street, Birkenhead, CH41 8ER. Whether you’re seeking support, have questions about our services, or wish to book an appointment, we encourage you to get in touch. Your journey towards understanding and support starts here.