Depth-oriented integrative therapy and assessments for adults seeking healing, connection, and personal growth.
What do you gain from Adult Autism Diagnosis
Understanding lifelong patterns
You may have always felt different, sensitive, socially exhausted, or “out of sync,” even while appearing successful.
Making sense of masking and burnout
An evaluation can clarify whether years of masking, people-pleasing, or over-adapting have contributed to anxiety, depression, shutdowns, or burnout.
Differentiating autism from other concerns
Autism can overlap with ADHD, anxiety, trauma, OCD, or depression. Assessment can clarify what is actually driving your symptoms.
Clarifying relationships and communication
Understanding sensory needs
Social situations, dating, friendships, or workplace dynamics may feel confusing, exhausting, or like constant performance.
Sensitivity to noise, light, textures, smells, crowds, food, or clothing may finally make sense through a neurodevelopmental lens.
Reframing self-blame
Diagnosis and accommodations
Evaluation can shift the question from “What is wrong with me?” to “How does my nervous system work?”
A formal diagnosis can support access to workplace, school, testing, or daily-life accommodations that help you function with less strain.
Adult Autism Evaluations in California with Sofya
Vasilyeva, PsyD
I’m Dr. Sofya Vasilyeva, a licensed clinical psychologist in California offering virtual adult autism evaluations in English and Russian.
I work with adults across California, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, San Jose, and Oakland.
An adult autism evaluation can help clarify whether autism, ADHD, anxiety, trauma, OCD, or depression may be contributing to your symptoms. A formal diagnosis may also support access to workplace, school, or testing accommodations.
The process is collaborative and personal, not cold or overly clinical. Together, we explore your lived experience, relationships, sensory needs, emotional patterns, strengths, and challenges to help you better understand how your nervous system works.
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