MindPath provides a specialised AuDHD assessment service in Ireland, delivered by PSI Member Psychologists with expertise in the complex relationship between Autism and ADHD.
of people diagnosed with ADHD in Ireland show ASD traits
of adults with AuDHD are initially diagnosed with only one condition, leaving their complex needs unmet.
of people with AuDHD find that standard ADHD or Autism supports don’t work for them, as they fail to address their conflicting needs.
of people diagnosed with ADHD in Ireland show ASD traits
of adults with AuDHD are initially diagnosed with only one condition, leaving their complex needs unmet.
of people with AuDHD find that standard ADHD or Autism supports don’t work for them, as they fail to address their conflicting needs.
Up to 70% of Autistic individuals also meet some of the criteria for ADHD, yet this overlap is frequently missed by standard assessments.
Discover the common signs of this unique neurotype, which can often feel like an internal contradiction
Without a diagnosis, many AuDHD adults live in a state of constant internal conflict which leads to severe burnout and confusion about their true identity.
Often, only the more “visible” condition, either ADHD or Autism, is recognised, leaving the other to cause unexplained challenges and a feeling that the full picture is missing.
The traits of Autism and ADHD can mask each other. Impulsive ADHD traits can hide autistic social withdrawal, while autistic routines can compensate for ADHD’s executive dysfunction, making a correct diagnosis quite difficult.
MindPath’s integrated model removes the need for two separate and expensive assessments. We reduce your wait time and provide a more affordable, expert-led pathway, helping you get the complete answers you deserve, faster.
Our Online Pre-Assessment is the first step toward untangling your unique profile. For €14.99, it uses a comprehensive set of validated tools to provide initial clarity on your next steps.
Crucially, this includes a Free Follow-Up Call with one of our clinicians. In this call, you’ll receive expert guidance on the correct diagnostic path for you, be it for AuDHD, Autism-only, or ADHD-only.
This targeted service helps you save money by making sure you only proceed with the assessment that truly fits your needs and the traits you exhibit on the pre-assessment.
If you’ve spent your life feeling like a walking contradiction, craving routine but needing novelty, wanting social connection but feeling overwhelmed, an AuDHD assessment provides the “why”.
It’s not just about two labels; it’s about understanding how they intersect and discovering integrated strategies to finally work with your brain, not against it. We’re here to guide you with truly tailored support.
Your initial step is a targeted online pre-assesment designed to provide preliminary clarity on your unique profile.
This includes a crucial one-on-one consultation with a clinician to interpret your report and guide your next steps.
In this 60-90 minute assessment with your specialised clinician, you will explore the autistic aspects of your experience using the ADOS-2. Your psychologist will observe social communication and interaction, while remaining aware to how ADHD traits might influence your presentation.
The focus of this session moves to your ADHD profile, guided by the structured DIVA-5 interview. Your clinician will investigate patterns of attention and executive function, but simultaneously, carefully observing how autistic characteristics might mask or compensate for these symptoms.
This document synthesises all findings against the official DSM-V criteria. It brings together the clinician’s nuanced observations, a full breakdown of your scores, and a set of personalised recommendations designed for the AuDHD mind. The process concludes with a feedback session between you and your clinician to walk you through your diagnosis.
A quick and confidential tool to help clarify your unique profile of AuDHD, Autism, or ADHD traits.
A Free Follow-Up Call with a member of our team is included to discuss your results.
One time payment
It will only take up to ~20 min
This initial 60-90 minute clinical interview is conducted by a PSI-accredited psychologist. Using the ADOS-2 (Module 4), it focuses on autistic traits while also considering how potential ADHD symptoms influence your presentation.
Autism-Centred Clinical Evaluation: A structured assessment using the ADOS-2, one of the most validated tools available for identifying autistic traits in adults.
Whole-Picture Approach: We explore how ADHD symptoms may overlap with or mask your autistic presentation, ensuring nothing is missed.
Collaborative & Supportive Process: You can include a trusted person for added insight, and complete the session from wherever you’re most comfortable.
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This second 60-90 minute session focuses on your ADHD profile using the DIVA-5 diagnostic interview. Your psychologist will carefully observe how your autistic characteristics may interact with or mask these symptoms.
In-ADHD-Focused Clinical Evaluation: Using the DIVA-5, we systematically examine each DSM-5 ADHD criterion with real-life examples from your history.
Informed by Your Autism Assessment: The findings from Step 2.1 directly shape this session, ensuring your ADHD profile is interpreted within the context of your neurodivergent traits.
Collaborative & Supportive Process: You can include a trusted person for added insight, and complete the session from wherever you’re most comfortable.
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Your clinician will provide a cohesive diagnostic report detailing all findings against DSM-V criteria for both conditions. It includes personalised recommendations and is followed by a dedicated feedback session between you and your clinician to discuss your integrated diagnosis.
Clinician-Led Presentation: Your assessing clinician will talk you through the report during a video call, offering clarity and support.
Clear, Personalised Summary: The report includes your full and detailed assessment results, diagnostic outcome, and personalised recommendations for next steps.
Purposeful Assessments: We only proceed with full evaluations when clinically appropriate, ensuring your time and effort are well spent.
After Your Report Presentation, MindPath provides personalised psychiatry, therapy and aftercare.
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Following Diagnosis, MindPath offers a Personalised Aftercare Programme consisting of Psychiatry, Therapy & Coaching.
It is an integrated assessment process designed specifically for adults who suspect they have both Autism (ASD) and ADHD. Instead of two separate, disjointed evaluations, we use a seamless and clinically-informed process to accurately identify and understand how both neurotypes present and interact in one individual.
This assessment is for adults who feel that neither an ADHD nor an autism diagnosis on its own fully explains their experience. You might relate to the feeling of being a ‘walking contradiction’, craving routine but being unable to stick to it, or being highly empathetic but struggling with social cues. If you relate strongly to traits of both, this assessment is for you.
A dual assessment is far more accurate. When assessed separately, autistic traits like hyperfocus can be mistaken for ADHD inattention, or ADHD-driven social impulsivity can mask underlying autistic social difficulties. Our integrated approach allows the clinician to see the whole picture, disentangle the overlapping traits, and provide a coherent diagnostic conclusion.
Our clinicians are not just experts in one field; they are specifically trained and experienced in the complex presentation of co-occurring autism and ADHD in adults. They are proficient in both the ADOS-2 for autism and structured clinical interviews for ADHD, and they are all PSI members.
The AuDHD Pre-Assessment is a crucial first step. You’ll complete a comprehensive set of questionnaires that screen for the traits of both autism and ADHD. This provides our clinical team with a foundational understanding of your unique profile and helps confirm that the full dual assessment is the most appropriate and valuable next step.
This is a deliberate clinical strategy. We start with the autism-focused session (using adapted ADOS-2 methods) to observe your foundational social communication and interaction styles. The second, ADHD-focused session (a structured clinical interview) then explores your history of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. This separation allows the clinician to assess each neurotype clearly before integrating the findings.
While the Pre-Assessment can be done at your own pace, the full process is designed for clarity and efficiency. After the two live sessions are complete, you can typically expect to receive your final, comprehensive report and schedule your reporting call within 3 days.
You will receive one comprehensive, integrated report. It will include a clear diagnostic conclusion for both ASD and ADHD, a detailed breakdown of the relevant traits, and the crucial ‘disentanglement’ analysis explaining how they coexist. Most importantly, it will feature a single set of personalised recommendations that account for the unique challenges and strengths of your AuDHD profile.
‘Disentangling’ is the most important part of the process. Your clinician will analyse how your traits interact. For example, they will differentiate between social challenges caused by autistic differences in understanding social rules versus those caused by ADHD-related inattention or impulsivity. This analysis explains the ‘why’ behind your experiences, not just the ‘what.’
The reporting call is a dedicated one-on-one session with your clinician to discuss the findings of your report. It’s an opportunity for you to ask questions, develop a deeper understanding of your diagnosis, and talk through the personalised recommendations. We believe a diagnosis should be a conversation, not just a document.
AuDHD is a term used to describe the experience of being both Autistic and having ADHD. It is not a separate diagnosis, but the co-occurrence of two distinct neurotypes. An AuDHD individual has a brain that operates with both the autistic need for structure, patterns, and deep focus, and the ADHD need for novelty, stimulation, and interest-based motivation.
This is the central experience of AuDHD; living with internal contradictions. For example, the autistic part of you may create a detailed plan for the day, while the ADHD part of you lacks the executive function or motivation to initiate it. This internal push-and-pull is a hallmark of the AuDHD experience.
A common example is having intense, autistic-style special interests, but the ADHD part of your brain causes you to cycle through them rapidly. Another is experiencing autistic social confusion while the ADHD part of you is impulsive, causing you to say something you later analyse endlessly.
It can be a confusing mix. The ADHD brain may crave social interaction and novelty, pushing you into social situations. However, the autistic brain finds the same situation overwhelming, draining, and difficult to navigate. This can lead to a ‘social battery’ that drains quickly, resulting in cycles of being social and then needing to isolate completely.
This is an intense form of executive dysfunction where the brain gets completely stuck. It often happens when the autistic need for a logical plan clashes with the ADHD brain’s inability to start a task, prioritise steps, or overcome a lack of stimulation. The result is a state of being mentally and physically frozen, unable to do anything at all.
Yes, it is often more complex. An AuDHD individual may use their ADHD impulsivity and sociability to ‘mask’ their underlying autistic social difficulties. However, this mask can be inconsistent and exhausting, leading to a feeling of being misunderstood or having an unstable sense of self.
AuDHD burnout is a profound state of exhaustion caused by simultaneously managing two different neurological ‘operating systems.’ It’s the combined result of autistic burnout (from sensory overload and masking) and ADHD burnout (from executive dysfunction and struggling to meet demands).
Of course. When the traits work together, AuDHD can be a powerful combination. It can lead to creativity (ADHD out-of-the-box thinking combined with autistic deep focus), a unique ability to see patterns others miss, and a passionate, justice-oriented drive for subjects of intense interest.
Historically, diagnostic guidelines often prevented clinicians from diagnosing both conditions in the same person. Furthermore, research has historically focused on young boys, missing how AuDHD presents more subtly in adults, particularly women, who often develop highly sophisticated masking strategies. Thankfully, clinical understanding is now catching up with people’s lived reality.
Don’t let the confusion of overlapping traits hold you back any longer.
For €14.99, our integrated Pre-Assessment is the crucial first step to understanding your unique profile and determining if a full AuDHD, Autism, or ADHD assessment is needed.
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Clinical Psychologist
Experience
10 years
PSI Registration
M13413
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Adson holds specialist training in the assessment and diagnosis of adult ADHD, certified through UKAAN (UK Adult ADHD Network), one of the leading bodies for evidence-based ADHD assessment training in the UK and Ireland. This training positions him to deliver thorough, clinically-informed ADHD evaluations with a strong understanding of how ADHD presents across the adult lifespan.
He is a pre-accredited member of the Association of Professional Counsellors & Psychotherapists Ireland (APCP) and a graduate member of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI). Adson is fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, making him particularly accessible to multilingual and expatriate clients navigating neurodevelopmental assessments.
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Chartered Psychologist
Experience
20 years
PSI Registration
M7281C
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Marcello Massaro is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist based in Dublin, and a chartered registered member of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI). He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Clinical and Community Psychology from the University of Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’ (Italy), a Post-Graduate Qualification in Clinical Psychopathology (Phenomenological Model) from the same institution, and a Master of Arts in Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy from Independent Colleges Dublin. He has also completed a Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy at City Colleges Dublin (PSI-accredited) and a Certificate in Health and Wellness Coaching from the IHS Institute of Health Sciences.
Marcello’s clinical training has been shaped by a genuine interdisciplinary curiosity, spanning psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience, and he draws on a range of therapeutic modalities including Schema Therapy, psychodynamic approaches, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Humanistic and Positive Psychology, Gestalt Therapy, and Attachment Theory. His practice is guided by a formulation-led, individualised approach that attends to each client’s unique symptom profile rather than reducing presentations to diagnostic labels.
Beyond his clinical practice, Marcello has volunteered with a number of Irish mental health organisations, working in the areas of suicide prevention, bereavement counselling, depression, and eating disorders. He brings to his assessment work a particular sensitivity to the psychological complexity that often accompanies neurodevelopmental profiles.
Marcello works in English and Italian.
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Chartered Psychologist
Experience
10 years
PSI Registration
M10377C
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Renata Fernandes de Oliveira is one of Ireland’s most comprehensively credentialed psychologists, holding three chartered designations from the Psychological Society of Ireland: Chartered Psychologist, Chartered Counselling Psychologist, and Chartered Forensic Psychologist. She currently serves as a Board Member of the PSI Division of Forensic Psychology.
Renata’s academic formation is extensive. She completed her Bachelor’s in Psychology at the University of Saint Ursula, her Master’s in Criminal Sciences and Law at the University of Coimbra, and her PhD in Psychology at the University of Minho. She subsequently completed two post-doctoral research periods at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, one at the Institute of Psychology (focusing on criminology and mental health) and another at the Institute of Psychiatry (focusing on stigma, madness, and dangerousness). During both post-doctoral periods, she lectured across multiple undergraduate and postgraduate courses and worked clinically as part of a multidisciplinary team at the Day Hospital of the Institute of Psychiatry.
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Renata works in English and Portuguese.
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Chartered Psychologist
Experience
15 years
PSI Registration
M12722C
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Dr. Natalia Putrino is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist registered with the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI), and is currently undertaking the validation of her qualifications as a Clinical Psychologist in Ireland. She holds a PhD in Psychology and is a member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), from which she received the prestigious International Student Award in 2018 for her outstanding doctoral research.
Natalia brings over a decade of international research experience, having collaborated with teams across Argentina, Ireland, Italy, Germany, and Chile in the fields of psychotherapy research, neuroscience, and behavioural science. As part of her qualification validation in Ireland, she has completed clinical placements within the HSE in both Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and Adult Mental Health Services.
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Specialty
Assessing Psychologist
Experience
12 years
PSI Registration
M8899
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Thomaz Lopes is a psychologist and psychotherapist with over a decade of clinical and organisational experience across Brazil, Portugal, and Ireland. He holds an MSc in Applied Behaviour Analysis from Queen’s University Belfast, a BSc in Psychology from the University of Jaguariúna, Brazil, and a Post-Graduate qualification in Workplace Wellness from Trinity College Dublin. He is an active member of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI), the Federal Council of Psychology of Brazil (CFP), and the American Psychological Association (APA).
Thomaz specialises in the assessment of ADHD, ASD, and AuDHD (co-occurring Autism and ADHD), holding certifications from UKAN (UK) and the Sunfield Institute (USA). His academic foundation in Applied Behaviour Analysis directly informs his neurodevelopmental assessment work, providing a rigorous, evidence-based framework for understanding behaviour, identifying functional profiles, and formulating meaningful, actionable recommendations.
His clinical practice draws on CBT, Solution-Focused Therapy, and ABA principles, and extends to individual and group psychotherapy, career coaching, and wellbeing consultation. Thomaz has also held a Corporate Lead Psychologist role in which he oversaw clinical service delivery across North America, Asia, and Europe, providing clinical supervision and mentorship to a global multidisciplinary team. He has delivered psychoeducation workshops on resilience, stress management, mindfulness, and career development across Brazil, Portugal, and Ireland.
Thomaz conducts assessments and therapy in English and Portuguese.
Specialty
Chartered Psychologist
Experience
9 years
PSI Registration
M12722C
Doctorate | Senior Behaviour Support Specialist
Dr. June Dennehy is a doctoral-level psychologist and behaviour support specialist with a background spanning neurodevelopmental assessment and applied behavioural practice. She has worked as a Senior Behaviour Support Specialist at Resilience Healthcare, where her work has focused on the clinical support of individuals with neurodevelopmental and intellectual disabilities.
Her expertise sits at the intersection of behaviour analysis, psychological assessment, and neurodevelopmental profiling, an integrated skillset that translates directly into rigorous and formulation-rich ADHD and ASD evaluations. Dr. Dennehy brings considerable experience in understanding complex behavioural presentations within a neurodevelopmental framework, equipping her to support clients who present with layered, multi-factorial profiles.
Specialty
Chartered Psychologist
Experience
10 years
PSI Registration
M11810C
Doctorate | Senior Behaviour Support Specialist
Perri completed her Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology (D.Couns.Psych.) at Trinity College Dublin. Throughout her career, she has maintained a passion for empowering neurodivergent individuals through collaborative, integrative, trauma-informed and affirmative approaches and practice.
Perri received an Honours Bachelors Degree in Psychology from Dublin Business School. She then developed person-centred practices while completing a Master of Science Degree in Behaviour Science from Trinity College Dublin.
She has worked in various professional settings with people of all ages and provided support to individuals, families, teachers, caregivers and social services.
>Perri is neurodivergent and an advocate for the neurodiversity movement. She works from an intersectional perspective. She understands the power of lived experience, advocacy, self-exploration and self-determination. She believes that the assessment process can be an important, affirming experience and works to create a calm, approachable and individualised environment for clients.
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Clinical Director, Consultant Psychiatrist
Experience
6 years
NMBI Registration
519613
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