What is Your Neurodivergence?

At Neurolab we support individuals with different neurodevelopmental and neurocognitive profiles.

Our services focus on providing specialised assessment and guidance tailored to each individual.

A Precise Understanding of Your Neurodiverse Profile. Clarity beyond labels.

Redefining neurodivergence across the lifespan through clinical precision and neuroscience

At NeuroLab Mental Health, we provide a specialist, medically and psychologically informed approach to assessing neurodivergent profiles, including ADHD, autism, and related conditions. Our process integrates clinical interviews, standardised psychometrics, and, where appropriate, neuroscience-based analysis to deliver accurate and meaningful insight.

You’ll receive a clear clinical report with actionable recommendations and, when applicable, a formal diagnosis. Our structured clinical pathway ensures a consistent, transparent journey from assessment to personalised support (focused on real improvements in daily functioning, not just symptom labels.)

Reports are accepted by GPs, schools, and workplaces. We work with major insurance companies in Ireland, offer no waiting list, and all care is delivered by registered professionals.

Neurodivergence is not something to correct. It is something to understand with precision, and work with strategically.

Our role is not only diagnostic, it is strategic

We design clear, individualised pathways so that each patient receives the right intervention, from the right professional, at the right time. This includes both:

We operate as a central clinical hub, ensuring coherence, accuracy, and continuity of care.

How We Work

  • Brief consultation 
  • Identification of presenting difficulties 
  • Determination of appropriate pathway
  • Clinical interview 
  • Standardised measures (depending on profile) 
  • Functional and cognitive analysis 
  • Optional neurophysiological data (when clinically relevant)
  • Not label-driven, but Multidisciplinary profile Driven
  • Integration of all data sources 
  • Differential diagnosis
  • Clasical intervention: Medication, Psychoeducation, Psychotherapy
  • Accommodations when it is needed
  • Follow Up
  • Neuroscience interventions
  • Neurofeedback TMS among others

This happen when all objectives are achieved

and functionality is optimal with a reduction

of distress.

Who we are in the unit

The Neurodivergency Unit is a specialised clinical service focused on the identification, understanding, and optimisation of neurodivergent profiles across the lifespan. We are not a standard mental health service.

Our model integrates (when needed)

Clinical psychology

and psychiatry

Neurophysiology and brain-based assesment and intervention

(e.g. QEEG-informed interpretation)

Structured diagnostic

pathways

Coordinated care with external specialists

(OT, SLT, education services)

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Clinical Assessment and Targeted Intervention Across the Lifespan

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting attention regulation, impulse control, and activity levels. While often identified in childhood, many individuals remain undiagnosed until adolescence or adulthood.

ADHD is not a reflection of intelligence, effort, or discipline. It reflects differences in how the brain processes information, regulates executive functioning, and responds to stimulation.

At NeuroLab Mental Health, we provide specialist ADHD assessments for children, adolescents, and adults, combining established clinical methods with neuroscience-informed approaches to achieve a precise and meaningful understanding of each individual’s profile.

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Treatment Tailored Intervention Route

This pathway focuses on psychological, behavioural,

and educational  intervention without medication.

• Parent psychoeducation and guidance
• Emotional and behavioural regulation support
• Executive functions training
• Development of routines, structure, and coping strategies
• Collaboration with school and educational settings

Lead Professional:
• ADHD Parents Support
• Clinical Child and Adolescent
Psychologist

Additional Support:
• ADHD Minors Support – Executive Functions Training
• Psychologist Assistant

• Symptoms are mild to moderate
• The child is younger
• Daily functioning can improve with structured psychological support

This pathway includes medical assessment and, when appropriate,
pharmacological treatment.

• Specialist psychiatric evaluation
• Medication as a therapeutic tool (not a cure)
• Ongoing monitoring and dose adjustments
• Regular medical follow-up

Lead Professional:
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Medication is often most effective
when combined with psychological
and educational support.

This pathway integrates psychological intervention

and medication to provide comprehensive support.

• Psychological intervention and parent support
• Executive functions training
• Medical treatment and monitoring
• School collaboration
• Regular review of progress and needs

•Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychologist
•Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
• Psychologist Assistant

To reduce ADHD symptoms, support skill development,
and improve overall daily functioning and wellbeing.

Want to learn more about our care pathways?

We have designed a detailed guide on the ADHD treatment process. Download the full material here to understand every stage of our support.

Our Point of View

ADHD is not approached as a standalone diagnosis, but as a neurocognitive profile requiring precise understanding and coordinated support.

Through a combination of clinical expertise, tailored intervention, and selective integration of neuroscience and allied disciplines, our aim is to provide clarity, direction, and measurable improvement in functioning.

Our Clinical Approach

Our assessments are grounded in gold-standard psychological and clinical evaluation, ensuring diagnostic accuracy and a clear understanding of functional impact. This includes:

Where clinically appropriate, we complement this with neuroscience-informed evaluation, providing additional insight into attentional regulation and brain-based functioning.

This integrated approach allows us to move beyond surface-level descriptions and develop a more precise clinical formulation.

In younger individuals, ADHD often presents within educational and behavioural contexts. Our assessments focus on:

In adults, ADHD is frequently expressed through difficulties that have persisted over time but may not have been previously identified. We explore:

Where appropriate, intervention may include psychological strategies, behavioural approaches, and neuroscience-based options, tailored to the individual profile.

Across the Lifespan — Children, Adolescents and Adults

At NeuroLab Mental Health, ADHD is approached through an integrated care model that combines clinical assessment, targeted intervention, and coordinated support across relevant domains of functioning.

Rather than focusing solely on diagnosis, our approach is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of each individual’s profile, followed by a structured plan that supports meaningful, real-world improvement.

This model is clinically led and individually tailored, recognising that ADHD presents differently across the lifespan and requires coordinated input beyond a single discipline when appropriate.

When indicated, care may extend beyond the core clinical pathway through coordination with trusted allied services. These may include:

This ensures that intervention addresses not only core attentional difficulties, but also the wider functional context in which the individual operates.

Importantly, these supports are integrated as needed, without creating unnecessary complexity.

The model is designed to be both structured and adaptable:

Discharge is considered when clinical objectives have been achieved and stable functioning is observed, with the option for future review if required.

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Clinical Assessment and Targeted Intervention Across the Lifespan

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects social communication, flexibility of behaviour, sensory processing, and patterns of interaction with the environment. It presents differently across individuals and across the lifespan, and may range from more evident early developmental signs to subtler presentations that remain unidentified until adolescence or adulthood.

Autism is not defined solely by visible social difficulty. It reflects a broader neurodevelopmental profile involving differences in communication, sensory experience, behavioural regulation, and the way information is processed and organised.

At NeuroLab Mental Health, we provide specialist autism assessments for children, adolescents, and adults, combining established clinical methods with a careful formulation of the wider cognitive, behavioural, sensory, and functional profile. Our aim is to establish whether an autism profile is present, clarify overlapping factors, and guide meaningful next steps.

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Our Point of View

ASD is not approached as a checklist diagnosis, but as a complex neurodevelopmental profile requiring accurate assessment, careful differentiation, and coordinated support.

Our aim is to provide clinical clarity and a practical framework for improved understanding and functioning.

Our Clinical Approach

Our assessments are grounded in structured clinical and diagnostic evaluation, ensuring diagnostic clarity and a nuanced understanding of the individual presentation following  HSE standards. This includes:

Where relevant, broader neurocognitive and neuroscience-informed perspectives may be used to complement the formulation, particularly in cases where attentional regulation, executive functioning, or overlapping profiles require additional clarification.

This integrated approach allows us to move beyond surface features and develop a more precise understanding of the individual’s presentation.

In younger individuals, autism often presents through differences in social interaction, communication style, sensory responsiveness, flexibility, or play and behavioural patterns. Our assessments focus on:

In adults, autism may present through long-standing relational, social, sensory, or occupational difficulties that have not previously been fully understood. In some cases, individuals have developed compensatory strategies that can mask aspects of the presentation. We explore:

What This Assessment Provides:

Where appropriate, intervention may include psychological support, behavioural strategies, educational recommendations, and coordination with allied professionals.as SLT and OT.

At NeuroLab Mental Health, autism is approached through an integrated care model that combines clinical assessment, diagnostic formulation, targeted support, and coordinated intervention when required.

Rather than focusing solely on the question of diagnosis, our model is designed to understand the full profile of the individual and support meaningful functioning across relevant settings.

When indicated, care may be supported through coordination with trusted allied services, including:

This allows support to extend beyond diagnosis and address the broader functional context in which the individual lives, studies, works, and relates to others.

The model is structured in its clinical rigour and flexible in its implementation, allowing support to be adapted according to age, presentation, context, and goals.

Discharge is considered when clinical objectives have been met and a stable level of functioning has been achieved, with the option of review if needed in the future.

Dyslexia

Clinical Assessment and Targeted Intervention Across the Lifespan

Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty affecting the development of reading accuracy, reading fluency, spelling, and the processing of written language. It is not related to intelligence or motivation. Rather, it reflects differences in how the brain processes phonological information, language-based input, and the mechanics of literacy acquisition.

While dyslexia is often first identified during the school years, its effects can continue into adolescence and adulthood, particularly where early support was limited or where the profile remained unrecognised.

At NeuroLab Mental Health, we provide specialist dyslexia assessments for children, adolescents, and adults, combining established educational and cognitive methods with a clinically informed understanding of how literacy difficulties impact learning, confidence, and day-to-day functioning.

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Our Point of View

Giftedness is understood as a meaningful neurocognitive profile that deserves both accurate recognition and appropriate support. The aim is not only to identify strengths, but to ensure that those strengths can be used sustainably and effectively in real-life settings.

Our Clinical Approach

Our assessments are grounded in structured cognitive, literacy, and functional evaluation to ensure a precise understanding of the individual’s learning profile. This includes:

Where clinically appropriate, broader neurocognitive insights may be considered to clarify overlapping attentional, executive, or regulatory factors.

This approach allows us to move beyond broad descriptions of “reading difficulty” and develop a more precise profile of the underlying mechanisms involved.

In younger individuals, dyslexia often becomes visible through persistent difficulty acquiring literacy skills at the expected pace, despite appropriate opportunity and effort. Our assessments focus on:

In adults, dyslexia may present as longstanding literacy-based difficulty that has persisted despite compensation, high effort, or professional success in other areas. We explore:

Where appropriate, recommendations may include educational strategies, workplace adjustments, targeted learning support, and further allied input if required.

At NeuroLab Mental Health, dyslexia is approached through an integrated care model that combines clinical assessment, learning-focused formulation, and coordinated support where required.

Our aim is not only to identify the presence of dyslexia, but to understand how the profile affects the person’s learning, confidence, performance, and day-to-day functioning.

When indicated, support may include coordination with:

This broader support framework is used only when clinically justified and where it adds meaningful value to the intervention plan.

The model is structured enough to ensure rigour and flexible enough to adapt to different ages, educational demands, and functional goals.

Discharge is considered when the assessment process has been completed, recommendations are in place, and the individual or family has a clear pathway forward, with review available if needed.

Dyscalculia

Clinical Assessment and Targeted Intervention Across the Lifespan

Dyscalculia is a specific learning difficulty affecting the acquisition and use of numerical understanding, arithmetic skills, and mathematical reasoning. It may involve difficulty with number sense, calculation, sequencing, quantity estimation, and the practical use of mathematics in academic and everyday contexts.

Dyscalculia is not a reflection of low intelligence, poor teaching, or lack of effort. It reflects a specific neurocognitive difficulty in the processing and application of numerical information.

At NeuroLab Mental Health, we provide specialist dyscalculia assessments for children, adolescents, and adults, combining structured cognitive and functional evaluation to establish the nature of the difficulty and its broader impact on learning and everyday performance.

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Our Point of View

Dyscalculia is approached as a specific learning profile requiring precision, not simplification. Through accurate assessment and targeted recommendations, the goal is to improve understanding, functioning, and confidence in real-life contexts.

Our Clinical Approach

Our assessments are grounded in detailed analysis of numerical processing, mathematical functioning, and the cognitive systems that support these skills. This includes:

Where clinically appropriate, additional neurocognitive perspectives may be incorporated to explore overlapping attentional, executive, or learning-based factors.

This integrated approach supports accurate differentiation between dyscalculia, general academic difficulty, and difficulties arising secondarily from other conditions.

In younger individuals, dyscalculia often presents through persistent difficulty understanding and applying numerical concepts despite adequate opportunity for learning. Our assessments focus on:

In adults, dyscalculia may remain unidentified until practical demands reveal its impact more clearly, particularly in areas involving budgeting, time, measurements, calculations, or workplace tasks requiring numerical processing. We explore:

Recommendations may include educational support, practical strategies, accommodations, and further allied input where indicated.

At NeuroLab Mental Health, dyscalculia is approached through an integrated care model that combines clinical assessment, learning-focused formulation, and coordinated support where clinically indicated.

The aim is to understand both the numerical difficulty itself and its practical effects across educational, occupational, and everyday settings.

When indicated, care may extend through coordination with:

This ensures that intervention remains clinically coherent and proportionate to the individual’s profile and context.

The model is designed to be both structured and adaptable: rigorous in assessment, but flexible in how support is planned and delivered according to age, demands, and functional goals.

Discharge is considered when assessment and planning have been completed, a clear support pathway is in place, and stable functioning is observed or appropriately supported, with review available if required.

Dysgraphia

Clinical Assessment and Targeted Intervention Across the Lifespan

Dysgraphia is a specific difficulty affecting written expression, handwriting, spelling organisation, and the efficient production of written work. It may involve difficulties with fine motor control, written output, letter formation, written organisation, or the translation of ideas into structured written language.

Dysgraphia is not simply poor handwriting or lack of effort. It reflects an underlying difficulty in the processes required for written production and may affect academic performance, functional independence, and confidence over time.

At NeuroLab Mental Health, we provide specialist assessments for children, adolescents, and adults presenting with difficulties in written output, combining structured clinical, cognitive, and functional assessment to clarify the nature of the difficulty and its practical impact.

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Our Point of View

Dysgraphia is approached as a meaningful and specific profile affecting written functioning, not as a secondary or trivial issue. The goal of assessment is to achieve clarity and produce recommendations that support measurable improvement in practical functioning.

Our Clinical Approach

Our assessments are grounded in a detailed analysis of written production and the broader functions that support it. This includes:

Where clinically appropriate, additional neurocognitive or neuroscience-informed perspectives may be incorporated to clarify overlapping attentional, executive, or motor-planning factors.

This integrated approach supports a more accurate distinction between dysgraphia, broader learning difficulties, and difficulties secondary to other conditions.

In younger individuals, dysgraphia may present as persistent difficulty producing written work efficiently and clearly relative to age and ability. Our assessments focus on:

In adults, dysgraphia may remain under-recognised, particularly where individuals have relied on typing, avoidance, or compensatory strategies. Difficulties may become apparent in higher education, administrative work, or tasks requiring efficient written communication.

Recommendations may include educational strategies, adjustments to written demands, targeted support, and coordination with other professionals where appropriate.

At NeuroLab Mental Health, dysgraphia is approached through an integrated care model that combines detailed assessment, profile-based formulation, and targeted support planning.

This model is designed to understand not only the written difficulty itself, but also its broader impact on learning, performance, organisation, and confidence.

When indicated, care may extend through coordination with:

This ensures that recommendations are connected to the real-world contexts in which writing difficulties become most impairing.

The model is structured in process and flexible in application, allowing support to be adapted to the severity of the presentation, the age of the individual, and the specific demands of school, university, or work.

Discharge is considered when the assessment has provided sufficient clarity, recommendations have been established, and an appropriate pathway forward is in place, with the option for future review if required.

Giftedness (High Intellectual Ability)

Clinical Assessment and Targeted Intervention Across the Lifespan

High intellectual ability, or giftedness, refers to a neurodevelopmental profile characterised by advanced reasoning, rapid learning, strong abstract thinking, and an intensified way of processing information. Although this profile is often associated with high performance, it does not always translate into ease of functioning. In many cases, gifted individuals present with uneven development, emotional intensity, perfectionism, attentional difficulties, or a persistent sense of mismatch with their environment.

Giftedness is not simply a high score on an intelligence test. It reflects a broader cognitive profile that may influence learning, emotional regulation, social experience, motivation, and adaptation across different stages of life.

At NeuroLab Mental Health, we provide specialist assessments for children, adolescents, and adults, combining rigorous clinical and cognitive evaluation with neuroscience-informed perspectives when clinically relevant. Our aim is not merely to identify high ability, but to understand how it functions in real life and what kind of support, challenge, or adjustment may be required.

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Our Point of View

Giftedness is understood as a meaningful neurocognitive profile that deserves both accurate recognition and appropriate support. The aim is not only to identify strengths, but to ensure that those strengths can be used sustainably and effectively in real-life settings.

Our Clinical Approach

Our assessments are grounded in comprehensive clinical and cognitive evaluation, allowing for a precise understanding of strengths, vulnerabilities, and functional impact. This includes:

Where clinically appropriate, this may be complemented by neuroscience-informed assessment to provide additional insight into cognitive processing, attentional modulation, and patterns of regulation.

This integrated approach helps differentiate between high intellectual ability as a standalone profile and presentations where co-occurring conditions, emotional difficulties, or contextual factors may also be influencing functioning.

In younger individuals, giftedness often presents in a non-linear way. Advanced reasoning may coexist with frustration, disengagement, sensory sensitivity, uneven school performance, or difficulties relating to peers. Our assessments focus on:

In adults, giftedness may remain unidentified for years, particularly when high ability has been masked by overcompensation, burnout, chronic underperformance, or co-occurring attentional or emotional difficulties. We explore:

Where appropriate, recommendations may include psychological support, executive functioning strategies, educational guidance, or broader input from allied professionals.

At NeuroLab Mental Health, giftedness is approached through an integrated care model that combines assessment, formulation, and targeted support across the relevant domains of functioning.

Rather than reducing giftedness to a score or category, our model is designed to understand the individual as a whole: cognitive potential, regulation, emotional experience, adaptation, and environment.

When indicated, support may be coordinated with trusted allied services, including:

This ensures that support is proportionate, clinically coherent, and tailored to the individual profile rather than driven by a one-size-fits-all model.

The model is structured in its clinical rigour and flexible in its application. Support is adapted to age, context, goals, and the nature of the individual presentation.Discharge is considered when the main objectives have been achieved and the individual demonstrates stable functioning, with the option of review if new demands arise.

Every neurocognitive profile includes unique strengths as well as specific challenges.

Our aim is to understand each person’s cognitive and developmental profile in order to provide meaningful recommendations and practical strategies that support daily functioning and wellbeing.

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