Dr. Nadin Rizk, Psy.D.

Dr. Nadin Rizk specializes in conducting psychological evaluations with adults, adolescents, children, and toddlers who are exhibiting signs of Autism using the gold standard for diagnosing Autism, the ADOS-2. Examples of psychological evaluations conducted at Rizk Assessment & Psychological Services, LLC (RAPS): Diagnostic Clarification to assess for the presences of depression, OCD, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and PTSD • ADHD assessment • Autism Spectrum Disorder evaluations • Educational screeners (IQ and Achievement) • Personality assessments. Psychological Evaluations are comprehensive in nature and take about 8 to 10 hours in total including the clinical interview, administration of tests, interpretation of data, integration of data, report writing, and feedback on the findings. ADDITIONAL SERVICES Dr. Rizk is also accepting new adult clients for individual therapy. Depth and understanding is essential in therapy, so it's important that patterns that have hindered your life are identified and addressed. Dr. Rizk aims to provide a compassionate and safe space to help you gain insight into your life and move you towards a life that is meaningful for you. Dr. Rizk is also providing couples therapy and parent education support for neurodivergent families. ABOUT DR. RIZK Life is full of clichés and metaphors, so I won’t add more here… Instead, I’ll share my values with you in hopes that if ours align, I can join you for a brief time to help you move towards a life that is meaningful and worth living. Respect, integrity, and compassion are some of the values that are important to me, and I use them to guide my actions. I approach a situation, whether in my personal or professional life, with the lens of a helper. Sometimes, that means holding your pain for a moment, other times, it’s challenging an unhelpful pattern that’s moving you away from your values. Regardless of what you need in the moment, I will do it with compassion and respect. In the role of an evaluator, I won’t have the privilege of knowing you for a long period of time. Rather, we will spend hours together in a day detangling and digging for patterns that have helped you and hurt you. By learning more about yourself, you regain a sense of agency over the life you hope to live. You may have already realized those patterns and you are looking for confirmation. As a helper, I am ready to listen, be curious, and learn about you from you, the expert in yourself. I truly understood the power of community, connection, and belonging when I moved to Missouri from Southern California. I braved a new experience and a new world, and having a sense of connectedness was imperative. As a woman of color, I noticed the injustice and unfairness people experience, not just because of race, but because of differences. At Fellow Travelers, differences are celebrated not minimized to fit social expectations. In the words of Kierkegaard: “The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”