Know What You’re Working With

You Got Here Holding Somebody Else’s Answer

Somebody already told you what this is.

Anxiety, probably. Or trauma, or the rough season everybody your age is supposedly having.

A coworker with ADHD looked at you sideways and asked whether you needed a pill, as she does. Or your doctor said she won’t prescribe anything until someone tests you.

Either way, you’re here because the explanation you were handed quit matching what your days look like.

Brilliant Plans, Terrible Execution

Planning was never the problem. Your plans are good.

The gap between what you meant to get done and what got done keeps widening, and the powerhouse version of you is the one you want back.

The job still gets covered. It’s the kitchen counter, the permission slip, and the birthday you meant to plan that give it away.

Nobody screened you in third grade because your grades were fine, and nobody saw anything to question.

Or You’ve Been Wondering About Autism

You’ve been in therapy, and it has helped. One question has stayed open the whole time.

Trauma was the working theory, and it was a sound one. Trauma and autism can present almost identically, especially in a region carrying so much trauma.

You want that question settled so the work you’re already doing can get more specific.

You’ll want to know what Dr. Medley used and why. Ask.

And if You’re Calling About Your Child

The school has a theory. The last evaluation had a different one, and the one before that had a third.

What you asked for was peace in the house, not a document listing everything your child can’t do.

An evaluation should tell you how your kid’s brain operates, what to ask the school for in writing, and what you can quit fighting about before school.

Parents tend to leave that meeting steadier than they walked in, and that comes down to how the evaluation gets built.

Dr. Medley Is Going to Over-Screen You

Dr. Meagan Medley does all the psychological testing and evaluation at Sageberry, and she’ll tell you up front that she goes overboard on purpose.

The interview is structured, and the testing battery is the long version. There are more rating scales than most people expect; anxiety, trauma, and mood all get checked deliberately instead of being assumed.

She rules things out as carefully as she rules them in, because the first answer that fits isn’t always the true one.

Sometimes, the findings include that your environment is a problem and that your mental health is affected. She’ll tell you that, too.

Then You Take the Answer Somewhere

An answer is only worth something if somebody does something with it.

Until recently, that meant Dr. Medley handed over a report and sent people off to find a therapist on their own.

Sageberry now has two counselors, so that step happens here instead of starting over with a stranger.

Dr. Brent Powell, LPC, works full-time out of the New Albany office with adults, couples, and men’s issues. Jeremiah Andrews, LPC, works virtually with adolescents, young adults, and adults, grounded in CBT and DBT.

You Can Start with Counseling Instead

Plenty of people come here for counseling and never need an evaluation at all.

Individual therapy. Couples work. CBT and DBT for the stretches when your own thoughts are running the show.

Each clinician here keeps the caseload they were built for, with no volume quota, and no pushing you toward whoever happens to have an opening.

Testing is where some people start. For others, it never comes up, and either way, the wait to get in here is short.