Comprehensive Psychological Evaluations for Diagnostic Clarity
Experienced in psychological, neurodevelopmental, and medico-legal assessment, Dr. Meskowsky provides thorough evaluations grounded in clinical expertise, careful diagnostic formulation, and practical recommendations.
✦Austism (ADOS-2) ✦ADHD Evaluations ✦Memory/Attention Evaluations ✦Cognitive/IQ Testing
✦Personality Assessment ✦Diagnostic Clarification ✦Fitness-For-Duty
✦QME, SIBTF, IME, and AME Medico-Legal Evaluations
Autism and Neurodevelopmental Evaluations
Dr. Meskowsky provides autism evaluations for toddlers, children, adolescents, and adults, including individuals with more subtle presentations, later-identified autism, high-functioning profiles, and masking. With over 20 years of experience working with individuals with autism and related neurodevelopmental differences, she offers comprehensive assessments designed to clarify diagnosis, understand strengths and challenges, and provide meaningful recommendations. Evaluations may include the ADOS-2 when clinically appropriate, along with cognitive testing, adaptive functioning measures, developmental history, behavioral observations, rating scales, and collateral information.
Psychological and Cognitive Testing
Comprehensive psychological and cognitive evaluations are available to assess emotional, behavioral, developmental, cognitive, and functional concerns. These evaluations may help clarify questions related to ADHD, anxiety, depression, trauma, learning challenges, executive functioning, emotional regulation, social difficulties, and diagnostic complexity. Each evaluation is tailored to the referral question and includes a thorough written report with findings, diagnostic impressions, and practical recommendations.
Medico-Legal Evaluations
As a licensed clinical psychologist and Qualified Medical Evaluator, Dr. Meskowsky provides independent medico-legal psychological evaluations, including QME, SIBTF, IME, and AME evaluations. These assessments may address psychological injury, causation, apportionment, permanent disability, treatment needs, work restrictions, functional impairment, and related legal-medical questions.
Reports are designed to be objective, comprehensive, and clearly organized for attorneys, claims administrators, physicians, employers, agencies, and other referral sources.
Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations
Dr. Meskowsky provides fitness-for-duty psychological evaluations for individuals in safety-sensitive, professional, military, law enforcement, public safety, workplace, or return-to-work contexts. These evaluations may help address questions related to emotional stability, judgment, stress tolerance, cognitive functioning, behavioral concerns, readiness to return to work, and ability to perform essential job duties.
Evaluations are conducted with professionalism, objectivity, and attention to the specific demands of the role and referral question.
Thorough Reports and Meaningful Recommendations
Following each evaluation, Dr. Meskowsky provides a detailed written report that integrates clinical interview findings, test results, behavioral observations, records when available, diagnostic impressions, and individualized recommendations. Reports are designed to be clear, thorough, and clinically useful for individuals, families, providers, schools, attorneys, agencies, and other referral sources.
About Dr. Meskowsky
Dr. Tara Meskowsky is a licensed clinical psychologist and Qualified Medical Evaluator specializing in psychological, neurodevelopmental, fitness-for-duty, and medico-legal evaluations. She provides comprehensive assessments for toddlers, children, adolescents, and adults, as well as independent evaluations for attorneys, physicians, agencies, employers, and other referral sources. Originally from New Jersey, Dr. Meskowsky has worked across multiple regions of the country, including New York, Florida, Southern California, and now Northern California. Her clinical background spans a wide range of settings and populations, including individuals with autism, developmental disabilities, intellectual disabilities, traumatic brain injury, serious mental illness, behavioral challenges, emotional distress, and complex diagnostic presentations.
Dr. Meskowsky earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Loyola Marymount University and her Master of Arts degree in Psychology from Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology. She later earned her Doctor of Psychology degree in Clinical Psychology from California Southern University, graduating with a 4.0 GPA.
With more than 20 years of experience working with individuals with autism and developmental differences, Dr. Meskowsky brings a strong clinical foundation to her evaluation work. Her early experience included direct support and behavioral services for individuals with developmental disabilities and mental illness, followed by clinical leadership and program management in behavioral treatment settings. She has also provided crisis intervention, psychotherapy, psychological assessment, and diagnostic evaluation across children, adults, families, and complex clinical populations.
Her assessment experience includes psychological, cognitive, attention, memory, autism-related, intelligence, academic, personality, and emotional functioning measures. She integrates clinical interview, standardized testing, behavioral observations, records review, collateral information when appropriate, and careful diagnostic formulation to provide clear, clinically grounded opinions.
Dr. Meskowsky values fair, thorough, and clinically responsible evaluation work. She understands that assessment results can carry significant meaning for individuals, families, schools, agencies, employers, attorneys, and medical-legal decision-makers. For that reason, she approaches each case with objectivity, integrity, attention to detail, and respect for the individual being evaluated.
Known for her thoughtful and practical approach, Dr. Meskowsky strives to make complex clinical information clear and useful. Whether conducting an autism evaluation for a young child, diagnostic clarification for an adult, a fitness-for-duty evaluation, or an independent medico-legal assessment, her goal is to provide thorough and timely reports, clear diagnostic understanding, and meaningful recommendations that help guide next steps.