You built a remarkable life. The question never went away.
For the professionals who were called gifted, quirky, or intense as children — and have spent decades wondering why everything that looks effortless takes so much effort. A comprehensive adult autism evaluation by a Certified Autism Clinical Specialist, conducted entirely online.
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You've always experienced the world a little differently.
High-achieving autistic adults rarely look like the textbook. They look like the colleague who never misses a detail, the founder with encyclopedic depth — running an invisible second job underneath: translation.
You run on scripts
Small talk is rehearsed, meetings are replayed on the drive home, and one networking event costs a full evening of recovery no one ever sees.
Your depth built your career
What teachers called an obsession became your expertise. You can focus on complex systems for hours — the same intensity others find puzzling at dinner.
Sensory life, managed invisibly
The same breakfast for years. Specific fabrics only. Noise-cancelling headphones as professional equipment. Fluorescent offices that drain you by 2 p.m.
"Gifted and quirky"
Strong grades hid the struggle. Adults praised your vocabulary and missed your distress. You learned early that being impressive was safer than being understood.
Connection is real — and costly
You love deeply and prefer one person at a time. Groups drain you at a rate others don't experience, so you leave early and apologize often.
The burnout cycle
Years of high output, then a crash that gets labeled anxiety or depression — treated, managed, and never quite explained. The pattern keeps returning.
No single item on this list means you are autistic. Together, they form a pattern that deserves to be understood properly — not decided by an over-inclusive online screener or a rushed appointment with a clinician who doesn't specialize in autism. If you recognized yourself here, the private 2-minute fit check is a quiet first step; nothing is collected and no email is required.
Understand it properly, before you decide.
Five short guides written by Dr. Burgoyne for adults researching an evaluation — the straight answers you were going to search for anyway.
The signs, hiding in plain sight
Scripted fluency, the recovery tax, invisible sensory management — what the textbook missed in accomplished adults.
Read the guideMasking: the invisible second job
What camouflaging costs you — and why it hides you from most clinicians, too.
Read the guideGetting diagnosed, entirely online
Five steps, no referral, no waitlist — from a free consultation to a comprehensive report.
Read the guideThe cost of your investment
Three options from $2,500, what each covers, and why private pay protects your confidentiality.
Read the guideThe MIGDAS-2 method
Why instrument choice decides whether you get found — an interview, not an observation task.
Read the guideNot sure where to start?
Two private minutes, ten questions, no email — see whether an evaluation is worth your time.
Take the fit check"I am blown away by my life changing experience with Dr. Brian… He was able to put into words and make sense of my misunderstood struggles I have been dealing with my entire life. He gave me a diagnosis that made me see my life from a completely different perspective."
One evaluation. Three ways to use it.
Every option begins with the same comprehensive evaluation. The difference is how much support you want afterward, especially at work.
Clarity Evaluation
For adults who want a definitive answer and a thorough written report.
- ✓Free 15-minute consultation call
- ✓Cross-battery testing: MIGDAS-2, ASRS, SRS-2 & projective measures
- ✓A 3–5 hour structured clinical interview via secure video
- ✓Comprehensive written report, about a week after your evaluation
- ✓A one-hour feedback session to go through everything
Clarity at Work
For professionals deciding whether, when, and how to tell an employer.
- Everything in the Clarity Evaluation, plus:
- ✓Extended 90-minute feedback in place of the one-hour session
- ✓Workplace functional profile: your results translated into the terms work runs on, such as meetings, communication load, sensory environment, and transitions
- ✓Accommodation request letter in two versions, one naming the diagnosis and one that does not
- ✓Disclosure decision plan: who to tell, when, how much, and your fallback if it goes badly
- ✓Two 60-minute strategy consultations with Dr. Burgoyne
- ✓30-day check-in after your documents are delivered
Clarity Concierge
For executives, public-facing leaders, and organizations supporting a key person. Discreet, fast, and built around your calendar.
- Everything in Clarity at Work, plus:
- ✓Weekend and evening appointments for the evaluation, feedback, and every consultation
- ✓Priority scheduling: your evaluation within 7 days of completed intake
- ✓Four strategy consultations over three months, in place of two
- ✓Rehearsal of the actual conversation with your board, CEO, HR, or partners
- ✓Employer-facing summary: one page written for the person you are telling
- ✓Direct, secure messaging with Dr. Burgoyne between sessions
- ✓90-day follow-up, plus one letter revision within 12 months
- ✓Organization-sponsored billing available. The report stays with the client
Weekends available · limited to a few clients each month
| What's included | Clarity Evaluation | Clarity at Work | Clarity Concierge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free 15-minute consultation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cross-battery evaluation & written report | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Feedback session | 60 min | 90 min | 90 min |
| Workplace functional profile | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Accommodation letter, two versions | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Disclosure decision plan | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Strategy consultations | — | 2 | 4 |
| Rehearsal of the conversation | — | — | ✓ |
| Employer-facing summary | — | — | ✓ |
| Weekend & evening appointments | — | — | ✓ |
| Messaging between sessions | — | — | ✓ |
| Follow-up | — | 30 days | 30 & 90 days |
| Evaluation scheduled | Standard | Standard | Within 7 days |
| Letter revision within 12 months | — | — | ✓ |
| Organization-sponsored billing | — | — | ✓ |
| Total | $2,500 | $4,500 | $7,500 |
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You weren't overlooked because the signs weren't there.
You were overlooked because the tools, the era, and your own intelligence all pointed the other way.
The instruments were built around children
The autism measures most clinicians trained on were developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, around presentations most visible in young children. Entire generations of capable adults predate the field's understanding of how autism presents in people like you.
Intelligence is camouflage
Bright children learn social rules the way they learn everything else: by analysis. You studied people, built rules, and performed them well enough that clinicians saw competence — and never asked about its cost.
Success raises the bar for being believed
"You can't be autistic — you have a career, a marriage, a mortgage." Achievement becomes the argument against assessment, which is precisely backwards. Adaptation is not the absence of autism. Often, it is the evidence of it.
A cross-battery evaluation — no single test captures a lifetime of adapting.
Most adult evaluations lean on a single tool, often one built for children. This one doesn’t. It’s a cross-battery assessment — several validated instruments woven together with a careful clinical interview, so your picture comes from many angles rather than one score.
Depending on what fits you, that can draw on the MIGDAS-2, a sensory-based structured interview; the Autism Spectrum Rating Scales (ASRS) and the Social Responsiveness Scale, Second Edition (SRS-2), well-validated measures of social communication and responsiveness; and performance-based, projective measures grounded in psychodynamic theory, which reach beneath self-report to how you genuinely experience social awareness, communication, and motivation. The full battery is conducted over secure video.
- Comprehensive developmental & clinical interview — your history, in depth.
- Cross-battery testing — MIGDAS-2, ASRS, SRS-2, and projective measures, triangulated rather than reduced to one score.
- Full differential diagnosis — ADHD, anxiety, OCD, and trauma can resemble and co-occur with autism.
- Optional childhood collateral — input from someone who knew you growing up, only if you want it.
Exactly what to expect, step by step.
A clear, guided path — handled personally by Dr. Burgoyne at every step, conducted entirely over secure video, and paced around your schedule.
- Day 0
Free 15-minute consultation
A brief video call to make sure this is the right fit and confirm your state's eligibility. No pressure — just answers.
- Days 2–3
Deposit & intake forms
A deposit reserves your evaluation: $500 for the Clarity Evaluation, more for the options with strategy work. Once it is received, I send secure online history forms and standardized rating scales for you to complete at your own pace, with up to a week to do so. Please know that self-report questionnaires can be genuinely difficult — how readily an answer comes often depends on the day and the context, and finding them challenging is both common and entirely understandable. There is no need to answer perfectly; simply do your best. Your responses become the foundation we explore together, in depth, during the evaluation itself.
- Next 1–6 days
We schedule your evaluation
Once your forms are in, I reach out to confirm your appointment around your schedule.
- Your evaluation
A 3–5 hour digital face-to-face session
A thorough structured clinical interview on my HIPAA-secure healthcare Zoom platform, where your form answers become the starting point for understanding your real, lived experience.
- One week later
Results & 1-hour feedback
Your comprehensive report is ready about a week after your evaluation, and we meet for a one-hour consultation to go through everything and answer any question you have.
- Weeks 2–6
Strategy consultations At Work · Concierge
One-on-one sessions with Dr. Burgoyne to decide what, if anything, to tell work, finalize your letter and functional profile, and prepare for the conversation.
- Day 30 · 90
Follow-up At Work · Concierge
A check-in 30 days after your documents are delivered, to adjust the plan to what actually happened. Concierge clients meet again at 90 days.
Online autism evaluations for adults in 40+ states.
Through the PSYPACT interstate compact, Dr. Burgoyne is authorized to provide secure online autism testing and telepsychology assessment to adults located in any participating state (APIT, Mobility #24142).
Your state's current status is confirmed at your free consultation. In Colorado? Visit the Littleton office at mindingmyownpsychology.com.
What clients say.
"Compassionate, kind, reliable, and has an incredible gift in psychological discernment."
"We traveled from Nebraska to Colorado to meet him… he gave me the confidence that I chose the right professional."
"He made sense of a lifetime of experiences that never quite added up. The report alone was worth it."
A specialist who never stopped asking why adults get missed.
Dr. Brian Burgoyne is a licensed clinical psychologist whose practice is devoted entirely to assessment — no split attention, no therapy caseload competing for diagnostic focus. His autism work centers on the adults the field historically overlooked: capable, accomplished, exhausted.
- Certified Autism Clinical Specialist with 40+ continuing-education hours in autism assessment.
- 500+ comprehensive assessments completed in a testing-only practice.
- PSYPACT-authorized for interjurisdictional telepsychology (APIT, Mobility #24142).
- Neurodiversity-affirming: autistic differences understood as human biodiversity, not a deficit checklist.
Clarity, either way.
This is a diagnostic evaluation, not a confirmation service. Both outcomes are real answers — and both come with a path forward.
If the criteria are met
- A formal diagnosis, and language for a lifetime of experiences that finally fit together.
- Documentation that supports workplace accommodations under the ADA.
- Recommendations for your actual life: energy management, sensory strategy, disclosure decisions.
- Your existing coping recognized as sophisticated self-regulation, not a deficit.
If they are not
- A clear differential answer: what actually explains the pattern (often ADHD, anxiety, OCD, or trauma).
- The same comprehensive report and feedback session.
- Specific, actionable recommendations matched to what was found.
- An end to wondering — which has a value of its own.
Questions, answered directly.
Is a telehealth autism evaluation as valid as one done in person?
For this evaluation, yes — and the reason is specific. The MIGDAS-2 is a structured clinical interview, not an observation-based performance task, so nothing essential is lost over secure video. You meet the same psychologist, complete the same instruments, and receive the same comprehensive report an in-office client receives.
I've masked my whole life. What if I'm "too functional" to be diagnosed?
Successful adaptation is not evidence against autism — it is often part of the presentation. This practice uses the MIGDAS-2 precisely because it is well-suited to adults with strong masking and adaptive skills, whom observation-based measures historically under-identify. Your competence will not be mistaken for an answer.
Do I need my parents or childhood records?
Helpful, not required. Many adults are evaluated without childhood informants. Developmental history can be reconstructed through structured interview, any records you have, and collateral perspectives — a partner or long-time friend often adds more than they expect.
How do I get an autism diagnosis as an adult?
It starts with a free 15-minute consultation to confirm fit and verify your state's eligibility. From there it is a structured online evaluation: secure intake questionnaires, a live MIGDAS-2 interview and standardized measures over video, then a comprehensive written report and a feedback session about a week after your evaluation. No physician referral is required, and the entire autism assessment is completed by telehealth.
Do you accept insurance?
No. This is a completely private-pay, out-of-pocket evaluation. Insurance is not accepted and no claim is filed on your behalf, which is a deliberate choice: it keeps your evaluation entirely confidential, free of an insurer's diagnostic requirements, and off your insurance record. HSA and FSA funds may be used, and a detailed receipt is available on request should you wish to seek any reimbursement on your own.
Which option is right for me?
If you mainly want to know, the Clarity Evaluation answers the question thoroughly. If you are working and already wondering what to tell your employer, Clarity at Work adds the documents and strategy for that decision. Clarity Concierge is for executives, public-facing leaders, and organization-sponsored clients who need speed, discretion, and weekend or evening appointments. Not sure? Start with the evaluation. You can move up at your feedback session for the difference.
Do I have to tell my employer?
No. Many clients never do. The documents are yours, and the strategy work exists to help you choose among real options: disclosing the diagnosis, requesting accommodations without naming it, or making changes you control and deciding later. There is no right answer, only an informed one.
Who sees my report and documents?
You do. Your report, functional profile, and letters are delivered to you alone. Nothing goes to an employer, HR department, or anyone else unless you send it yourself or authorize it in writing.
Will you contact my employer or HR department?
No. Everything is written for you to deliver, on your timeline, so you stay in control of what is shared and when. Concierge clients rehearse the actual conversation with Dr. Burgoyne beforehand.
Is a strategy consultation the same as therapy?
No. Strategy consultations are focused, practical sessions about decisions at work: what to disclose, what to ask for, how to say it, and what to do if the response is poor. If ongoing therapy would serve you better, Dr. Burgoyne will say so and refer you.
Can I start with the evaluation and decide later?
Yes. Many people do. You can move up to Clarity at Work at your feedback session, or within 30 days of it, by paying the $2,000 difference.
Do you offer weekend or evening appointments?
Yes, with Clarity Concierge. The evaluation, feedback session, and every strategy consultation can be scheduled on weekends or evenings, so nothing requires time away from work to explain.
Can my company or organization pay for this?
Yes, through Clarity Concierge. The organization is invoiced directly. With your written permission it receives confirmation that the engagement was scheduled and completed. It never receives your report, your diagnosis, or anything said in a consultation. How organization sponsorship works →
Is this confidential? I have a professional reputation to consider.
Completely. Because this is a private-pay, out-of-pocket evaluation, nothing is reported to your employer and nothing enters an insurance record. What you do with your results — including whether anyone ever knows you were evaluated — is entirely your decision.
What if it turns out not to be autism?
Then you will know what it actually is. Every evaluation includes a full differential — ADHD, anxiety, OCD, and trauma can all resemble and co-occur with autism — and the report gives you the same depth of explanation either way. If you chose Clarity at Work or Concierge, your strategy consultations still apply to what was found, since ADHD, anxiety, and burnout create workplace decisions too. Or you can move to the Clarity Evaluation and the difference is refunded.
Will the report support workplace accommodations?
It is written to. The report documents your diagnosis and how it affects your functioning in the form employers, graduate programs, and licensing boards typically request. Clarity at Work and Concierge add a functional profile and an accommodation letter built for that purpose. No document can guarantee how an employer responds. Whether you ever use it that way — or show it to anyone at all — remains entirely your decision.
Which states do you serve, and what does it cost?
Telehealth evaluations are available in 40+ PSYPACT states; your state's current status is confirmed at your free consultation. The Clarity Evaluation is $2,500, paid out of pocket: a $500 deposit after your free consultation and $2,000 on the morning of your evaluation. Clarity at Work is $4,500 and Clarity Concierge is $7,500, each with a larger deposit and the balance due on the morning of your evaluation. Insurance is not accepted; HSA/FSA funds may be used for the evaluation.
What is refundable?
Your deposit is refundable until your intake forms are sent. If you stop partway through Clarity at Work or Concierge, strategy consultations you have not used are refunded.