Assessment. Insight. Growth.
Autism, ADHD and dyslexia assessments that understand the whole person
Psyche Vitality is an independent practice built on a simple idea: you know your own experience better than anyone. Assessment here is something we do with you, not to you. We work alongside you to make sense of your life so far, the strengths as well as the struggles, and the context around them, so that whatever the outcome, you come away understanding yourself, or your child, more clearly.
Assessments and therapy for adults, children and young people, clinically led by Dr Uzaina Qazi, Practitioner Counselling Psychologist. Online across the UK, and based in London.
HCPC registered · Psychologist-led · Neuroaffirming · Online across the UK, based in London
HELLO! WE ARE PSYCHE VITALITY
Transformative.
INCLUSIVE
CULTURALLY Sensitive.
Trauma Informed.
Compassionate.
Holistic.
Psyche Vitality offers professional counselling to support your mental health. Our qualified clinicians provide mindfulness, cognitive behavioural therapy and hypnotherapy to help you work through challenges and live a fulfilling life.
Why Psyche Vitality?
A single observation or questionnaire is never enough. We bring together your history, your own account, information from others where available, and structured clinical assessment. We also consider other possible explanations, so the conclusion is the right one.
Comprehensive
Understanding differences in context, recognising strengths as well as support needs, and never judging someone by how closely they resemble a stereotype. Neuroaffirming in how we work; careful and criteria-based in how we reach conclusions.
Neuroaffirming
We consider masking, compensation and the effort it takes to meet everyday expectations, not only what is visible in an appointment. Your culture and family are part of the picture, not an obstacle to it.
Context-aware
FIND YOUR QUESTION
Start with the question you’re already asking.
You’ve been wondering for a while. Maybe about yourself. Maybe about your child.
Most people don’t arrive knowing which assessment they need. They arrive with a question. Find yours.
“I’ve coped for years. Could I be autistic?”
→ Adult autism assessment
“Could ADHD explain why some things have always felt harder than they should?”
→ Adult ADHD assessment
“My child’s school keeps raising concerns.”
→ Autism and ADHD assessment for children and young people
“They’re bright, but reading and spelling are much harder than expected.”
→ Dyslexia assessment
“We have a diagnosis. Now what?”
→ PACT, parent support and therapy
“I was assessed before, and it didn’t feel right.”
→ Second opinions
“I’m a clinician looking for supervision or training.”
→ For professionals
Not sure which fits? Ask us. Working that out is part of what we do.
WHAT TO EXPECT
What an assessment here is actually like.
You won’t be handed a questionnaire and a score.
You’ll talk with a clinician, at a pace that works for you, about your experiences across your life: childhood, education, work, relationships, communication, sensory experiences, and the things that come easily or take more effort.
Where it helps, we also hear from people who know you, such as a parent, a partner or a teacher. We use recognised, standardised tools as part of the picture, never as the whole of it.
Then we explain what we found, and why, in plain language. You then receive a full written report with recommendations specific to you, not a short diagnostic letter, usually within four to eight weeks of your final appointment.
Common questions
BEFORE YOU DECIDE
Some honest things.
We can’t promise you a diagnosis.
We can promise a careful, considered answer, with the reasons spelled out. Paying for an assessment doesn’t buy an outcome.
“But I’m doing fine at work” doesn’t rule anything out.
Many adults develop ways of managing, masking or compensating over time. We consider the effort involved, not just how things appear from the outside. The autism diagnostic criteria (ICD-11) recognise that coping only through exceptional effort still counts.
Your culture and family are part of the picture.
Not an obstacle to it. Social expectations, family roles and cultural norms can influence how neurodevelopmental differences are experienced, described and recognised.
If online isn’t enough, we’ll say so.
If we don’t think remote assessment will give us enough reliable clinical information, we’ll explain why and arrange to see you face to face.
THE PEOPLE
The people you’ll work with.
Psyche Vitality is an independent practice, clinically led by Dr Uzaina Qazi. Assessments are led by Dr Uzaina or by other suitably qualified Psyche Vitality clinicians. Diagnostic assessments are led by appropriately qualified, HCPC-registered clinicians. Therapy may be provided by professionals registered with the relevant professional body for their discipline.
Dr Uzaina is an HCPC-registered Practitioner Counselling Psychologist, Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, with more than 15 years’ experience across psychology, counselling, research and clinical practice in the UK and India. Her published research follows families through autism, from first worries to early support, and it shapes how the practice works: listening for the whole story, including the parts shaped by culture, family and expectation.
“I don’t want anyone to feel reduced to a score or a checklist. A good assessment should make sense of the person’s experiences across their life, their strengths, the things they have found difficult and the context around them, and give them something useful to take forward.”
— Dr Uzaina Qazi
AFTER YOUR ASSESSMENT
An assessment should leave you with more than an answer.
Your report explains the findings and includes recommendations relevant to your circumstances, which may cover work, education, sensory needs, communication, emotional wellbeing or reasonable adjustments.
Recommendations focus on what you want support with, never on changing who you are.
Where further support would be useful, we can discuss appropriate next steps. Psyche Vitality also offers psychological therapy and PACT, a parent-mediated communication intervention for families of young autistic children.
Start an enquiry
Tell us a little about what you’re looking for. Please don’t include detailed medical information here; we’ll go through that with you later.
Prefer to talk? You can also call us on +44 7598 894652.
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A RETREAT FOR GRIEF & LIFE TRANSITIONS
ROOTED
Some losses are visible, while others are harder to name: a bereavement, the end of a relationship, a changing family, the loss of a role, identity or direction, an anticipated goodbye, or a life that has turned out differently from what you imagined.
ROOTED is a small-group residential retreat for 10 to 12 adults in the quiet landscape of Nainital. It offers space to slow down and make room for grief and transition, without being asked to “move on”, explain everything, or treat your experience as a problem to be solved. It brings together evidence-informed psychology, reflective practice, nature, regional contemplative traditions and gentle Ayurvedic-inspired wellbeing experiences.
Designed by a Chartered Psychologist. Small, spacious and consent-led.
From 25 December 2026 · Nainital, Uttarakhand, India · Places for up to 12
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