ADHD assessment in Adelaide

For all of Adelaide's liveability, getting a timely ADHD appointment can still mean a wait and a drive into the centre. Telehealth skips both. From the northern suburbs around Gawler, Elizabeth and Salisbury, across the inner east and west, down through Marion and Noarlunga in the south, or up into the Adelaide Hills towards Stirling and Mount Barker, your appointments happen from a quiet room at home — no parking near North Terrace, no waiting room, no afternoon written off for travel.

That reach matters most for people in the Hills and the outer suburbs, where the round trip into the city for a 50-minute appointment can swallow half a day. Video closes that distance: the same assessment, the same clinicians, without the commute that often pushes people to keep putting it off.

Care here is genuinely multidisciplinary. Registered psychologists lead the assessment itself, building a detailed picture from your history, standardised questionnaires and how attention, organisation and emotional regulation show up day to day. Diagnosis is then signed off by a psychiatrist — a doctor who can also prescribe — but only where the established criteria are clearly met, with medication considered solely when it's clinically appropriate. Your Adelaide GP shares the ongoing care so nothing happens in isolation.

We assess adults, and children and teens too, following the AADPA-aligned, evidence-based process and weighing other explanations such as sleep, anxiety or mood before reaching any conclusion. The two-hour Seen ADHD Pathway is $995 with psychiatrist input where appropriate; an Initial Telehealth Assessment starts from $149, and ongoing Treatment & Review care from $1,495.

On rebates: seeing a psychiatrist with a Medicare rebate usually needs a current GP referral, and what you can claim depends on your circumstances rather than a set figure. Your Adelaide GP or Services Australia can confirm what applies before you commit to anything.