Mental Health Assessments at The Annex

A conversation with Haley Daroowala, LMFT, Assistant Clinical Director of The Annex Mental Health in Austin, Texas.

Understanding Our Client Population

Softer complex PTSD client isn’t our client. We typically take on clients with more, I would say, behavioral complexities.

A Multi-Faceted Assessment Protocol

The first step in treatment when our clients get here is they go through our assessment battery, so we have assessments, we have information from family, from referents. Obviously, like initial first couple of sessions with clients.

The Initial Diagnostic Window

So the first probably 10 days we’re really kind of sniffing out like… Is this a personality disorder, or is this complex trauma?