The Testing Psychologist Podcast

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here. That’s right, everyone – it’s time for another “best of” episode! This is the end of year SIX for the podcast. When I stop to think about it, there aren’t many things I’ve done consistently for six years. Being married, running, and owning my practice are the ones that come to mind…not even grad school took six years. At this point, I’m going to stop being surprised by the longevity and just lean into it…the Testing Psychologist podcast is apparently here to stay   This was a remarkable year in many ways. I continued to have the incredible fortune of interviewing truly amazing guests. In fact, three of the episodes here are interviews with returning guests, which is an extra blessing. Downloads continue to increase, showing that there are plenty of folks out there invested in testing and running fulfilling testing practices. And for the first time ever, a business episode has cracked the top five for the year. As always, thank you all for listening and spreading the word about the podcast. Here’s to another year of talking about testing! Cool Things Mentioned The Testing Psychologist mastermind groups and business consultingBeyond ODD and Conduct Disorder w/ Dr. Akeem Marsh and Dr. Lara CoxMasterclass: Autistic Adolescent Girl w/ Dr. Donna HendersonContext-Driven Conceptualization in Assessment w/ Dr. A. Jordan WrightWe’re All Wrong Sometimes: Blindspots, Biases, and Getting Better w/ Dr. Stephanie NelsonThe EOS Journey, Part 4: Vision Day 1 Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s!I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and have grown to over 20 clinicians. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here. Anyone out there in the market for a research-supported intervention program to build executive functioning skills for neurodivergent kids? I thought so. Dr. Laura Anthony is here to talk with me about the Unstuck and On Target program, an executive functioning skills curriculum that she co-developed and rolled out over the last several years. Here are a few things that we chat about: Basics of the Unstuck and On Target program: what is it? Who’s it for? Who can implement it?The process of developing such a programImplementing the program with marginalized kids and families Cool Things Mentioned www.unstuckandontarget.comThe Testing Psychologist mastermind groups and business consulting Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s! I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Dr. Laura Gutermuth Anthony Laura Gutermuth Anthony, PhD is a Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Director of the Executive Functioning Clinic at CU Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and the Director of Research for the Division of Child and Adolescent Mental Health and is a clinical and developmental psychologist. She is especially interested in developing, testing and implementing evidence-based practices in the communities where they are needed using the co-development model. She is a co-author of the Unstuck and On Target curricula and resources, a school-and home-based executive function intervention proven in multiple research trials (unstuckandontarget.com). Much of her current research is focused on developing and evaluating this evidence-based treatment program to improve executive functioning, including cognitive flexibility, goal-setting, prioritizing/planning and coping skills in neurodivergent children. This project has received private foundation, NIMH and PCORI funding, and through this funding we have expanded into four age groups in schools, an online parent training program, parent support videos and a new CE credit online training model. Get in touch: Website: www.unstuckandontarget.com About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and grew to include nine licensed clinicians, three clinicians in training, and a full administrative staff. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here. For the next few episodes, I’m doing a Year-End Review series. This series is meant to help you look back on the last year of practice and use those insights to shape the coming year. The episodes are short and succinct because lord knows we’re all pretty strapped at this time of year. Today’s episode focuses on your growth. Were you content with your learning from the past year? If not, how could you change that next year? What are you really interested in? Cool Things Mentioned The Testing Psychologist mastermind groups and business consultingKnow Neuropsychology webinar series2023 NAN conference2023 INS conference2023 AACN conference2023 AAPdN conference2023 NASP conference Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s!I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and have grown to over 20 clinicians. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here. Both my kids and many children I’ve worked with over the years have taken the CogAt, and I’m guessing that many of you have a similar experience. Despite all of that adjacent exposure, I’ve never done a deep dive into the test and its applications. Fortunately, I’ve got Dr. Joni Lakin and Anna Houseman here to talk with me all about the CogAt and its use cases. Here are a few things that we dive into: Basics of the CogAt: what it is, how it was developed, relationship to IQ and achievement testsTypical uses of the CogAtUsing the CogAt for strengths-based instruction and reducing inequity in educationSpatial reasoning as an undervalued skill Cool Things Mentioned Using CogAT® Score Profiles to Differentiate Instruction Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s! I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Dr. Joni Lakin Dr. Joni Lakin is a Professor at the University of Alabama and is co-author of the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT®) Form 8. She studies educational measurement issues related to test validity and fairness with a particular interest in the accessibility of tests for English-learner students. She also studies Science, Technology, Engineering, and Science (STEM) education and interventions that promote STEM retention along the academic journey. Get in touch: Website: www.riversideinsights.comPersonal Website: www.jonilakin.netInstagram: @1billionlives About Anna Houseman Anna Houseman is the Product Marketing Director at Riverside Insights. Before Riverside, Anna taught elementary and middle school and served as a district assessment director. Get in touch: Email: anna.houseman@riversideinsights.com About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and grew to include nine licensed clinicians, three clinicians in training, and a full administrative staff. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here. For the next few episodes, I’m doing a Year-End Review series. This series is meant to help you look back on the last year of practice and use those insights to shape the coming year. The episodes are short and succinct, because lord knows we’re all pretty strapped at this time of year. Today’s episode focuses on your schedule. Did you feel overwhelmed this year? Want to adjust some hours next year? Work more? Work less? Cool Things Mentioned The Testing Psychologist mastermind groups and business consulting Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s!I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and have grown to over 20 clinicians. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here. For the next few episodes, I’m doing a Year-End Review series. This series is meant to help you look back on the last year of practice and use those insights to shape the coming year. The episodes are short and succinct because lord knows we’re all pretty strapped at this time of year. Today’s episode focuses on your clientele. Did you see who you wanted to see? Any presenting concerns or populations you’d like to see less of next year? Cool Things Mentioned The Testing Psychologist mastermind groups and business consulting Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s!I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and have grown to over 20 clinicians. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here. For the next few episodes, I’m doing a Year-End Review series. This series is meant to help you look back on the last year of practice and use those insights to shape the coming year. The episodes are short and succinct, because lord knows we’re all pretty strapped at this time of year. Today’s episode focuses on numbers. How’d you end the year in terms of gross revenue and profit? Any major surprises? Hopes for the next year? Cool Things Mentioned The Testing Psychologist mastermind groups and business consulting Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s!I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and have grown to over 20 clinicians. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here. Dr. Anthony Bean is here to chat with me about one of my favorite topics: gaming! I was so glad to find Anthony and grab some of his time. As someone who enjoys playing video games but also wrestles with the implications of playing games for both myself and my kids, this interview was both fun and informative. Here are a few topics that we get into: The history of gamingResearch around gaming “addiction” vs. problematic gamingPersonality correlates and gamingGaming as assessment and intervention Cool Things Mentioned Checkpoints & Autosaves bookNick Yee’s Gamer Motivation ProfileSherry Turkle’s research and book, Alone TogetherChild’s Play charityIGD-9 questionnairewww.geektherapeutics.comPax Unplugged conference Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s! I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Dr. Anthony Bean Dr. Anthony Bean is a Licensed Clinical Depth Psychologist, video game researcher, the Executive Director at The Telos Project, and the Executive Director of Geek Therapeutics, the leading agency in continued education with a dynamic focus on geek culture including evidence based practices and treatments in Geek Therapy and culture. He has been consulted as an expert for CNN, Inverse, Polygon, and internationally for Gehirn & Geist, while also appearing on Radio, Podcasts, and being a sought after Keynote Speaker and conference speaker in the United States, Canada, and Russia. He holds a Doctorate in Philosophy in Clinical Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and specialize in the therapeutic implications of video games and gaming, working with children and adolescents, and the use of video game character identification as a therapeutic technique. He has also authored multiple academic articles, book chapters, and the six books Working with Video Gamers and Games in Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide (Routledge, 2018), The Psychology of Zelda: Linking Our World to the Legend of Zelda Series (Ben Bella, 2019), The Psychology of Final Fantasy: Surpassing the Limit Break (2020, Leyline Publishing), Integrating Geek Culture Into Therapeutic Practice: The Clinician’s Guide to Geek Therapy (Leyline Publishing, 2020), The Psychology of Pokémon: The Power to Catch ‘Em All (Leyline Publishing, 2022), and Checkpoints and Autosaves: Parenting Geeks to Thrive in the Age of Geekdom (Leyline Publishing, 2022). Get in Touch: Email: Anthony@geektherapeutics.com; Geek Therapeutics on any social media handles About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and grew to include nine licensed clinicians, three clinicians in training, and a full administrative staff. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here. Welcome back to another happy hour episode with four of my good friends and testing psychologists! I have Dr. Chris Barnes, Dr. Stephanie Nelson, Dr. Andres Chou, and Dr. Laura Sanders back on the podcast to discuss life, practice, testing, and all things in between. Here are just a few of the random topics that we get into today: Why do we even write reports? Gratitude Limiting beliefs What makes us feel bold and capable Cool Things Mentioned The Testing Psychologist mastermind groups and business consulting Changes Cards RevKey for Google Ads The Huberman Lab podcast Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy by Nancy McWilliams Love’s Executioner by Irvin Yalom www.brainbuildingbook.com/empower www.thelazypsychologist.com Assessment Throwdown w/ Andres and Jordan Wright through Division 12 Snoop Dogg’s Hollywood Square acceptance speech Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR for 2021 to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s! I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and have grown to over 20 clinicians. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here. Today, we’re tackling yet another topic that has somehow NOT made it to the podcast yet: gender-affirming assessment. Dr. addyson tucker is here to talk with me about their work with adults who are seeking gender-affirming surgery. Addyson and I have a wide-ranging conversation that touches on several aspects of philosophy and practice, including… The history of gender-affirming assessmentSpecific strategies to break down the power differential between clinicians and clients during these assessmentsThe actual process of the assessment, and components of “the letter” Cool Things Mentioned WPATHwww.thegalap.org Resources Recommended by addyson: If you have trans and nonbinary adult clients who could use supportive community connection that focuses on strengthening self-compassion and shame resilience, check out Trans Self-Compassion. Updates about openings, offerings, resources, & recommendations for gender, racial, & body liberation: subscribe to addyson’s newsletter or follow them on insta.  GAS assessment Overview (will be recorded) with Dr. addyson tucker. Register & More Info at whpsych.2.vu/reg_learn (or view at wholeheartedpsych.com)Intermediate to advanced GAS/Gender-Affirming Surgery training with Dr. addyson tucker. Subscribe to their newsletter for service updates, offerings, and resources related to liberation at whpsych.2.vu/newsletter Recommended resources for providers wanting to expand their trans and nonbinary competence:  Free 45-min Overview webinar: Providing MH Assessments for GAS Referral Letters by Sarah Eley via Fenway Health Training Institute Home Study Webinar (12 hours + CEs): Psychological Preparation for Medical Transition (GAS) by Cadyn Cathers at the Affirmative Couch Home Study Webinar (6 hours + CEs): Gender ASSET by Colt St. Amand, PhD, MD. Important: an excellent reference for complicated referrals and working with minors, though best practices for reducing gatekeeping have shifted since its release (e.g., cost of assessment, the extensiveness of the process). Other recommended orgs for virtual training: Trans Training Institute, Affirmative Couch, LGBTQIA+ Health Education via Fenway Institute, and SayfteeRecommended reads: Clinician’s Guide to Trans-Affirming Care (Chang, Singh, & dickey), decolonizing trans/gender 101 (b.binaohan), Beyond the Gender Binary (Alok Vaid-Menon)Recommended listens: Making Therapy Affordable for Trans & Nonbinary People (discussion about using an economic justice rate model for working with marginalized communities) 2-hour + CEs webinar: Referral Letters for Gender-Affirming Medical Care by Moe Brown, MS, LMFT via Simple Practice platform. Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s! I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Dr. addyson tucker Dr. addyson tucker uses they/them pronouns. They are a queer, nonbinary, and neurodivergent psychologist who thrives when working at the intersection of racial, gender, and body liberation. They specialize in supporting Two-Spirit, Trans and Nonbinary (2STGNB) adults to develop shame resilience through self-compassion through 1:1 therapy, workshops, and a virtual community, as well as offering free gender-affirming surgery (GAS) assessment/referral. Professionally, addyson supports trans-affirming providers through advanced group and individual consultation, as well as training related to gender-affirming surgery (GAS) referral. Get in Touch: Website: wholeheartedpsych.comEmail: addyson@wholeheartedpsych.comInstagram: @wholehearted.psych About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and grew to include nine licensed clinicians, three clinicians in training, and a full administrative staff. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call