Clinical Function and Accommodation Consultation
Practical clarity when a health condition, disability, injury, or mental health concern is affecting work or school.
This service is for people trying to function, participate, return, or stay engaged — at work, in school, in graduate or professional training, or in daily life. It is a structured consultation: understanding the demands of your setting, identifying functional barriers, reviewing documentation, developing support strategies, strengthening communication, and building realistic next steps.
Two things to know before you book
- This is a private-pay service. Consultation is not billable to insurance, and no superbill is issued. Fees are confirmed in a written fee agreement before services begin.
- This is consultation, not psychotherapy and not evaluation. It does not diagnose for the purpose of benefits, decide accommodations, or produce a legal, forensic, or disability opinion.
This consultation may help if you are
- An employee working through workplace accommodation needs
- Managing FMLA, leave readiness, or return-to-work concerns
- A professional experiencing executive-functioning barriers, burnout, or job-sustainability challenges
- A parent or guardian preparing for an IEP or 504 meeting for a K-12 student
- A college, graduate, training, licensing, or clinical-placement student needing accommodation or return-to-program support
- Organizing disability, medical, academic, or workplace documentation
- Returning after hospitalization, illness, injury, burnout, or an academic interruption
- A referral partner seeking a structured clinical-functional pathway for your patients or clients
Structured pathways for specific concerns
Workplace Function Consultation
For adults, employees, and professionals
Job demands and essential functions, workplace accommodation strategy, FMLA and leave-readiness planning, stay-at-work and return-to-work strategy, documentation review, and communication planning with human resources, employers, and treating providers.
Especially helpful when you are working, on leave, at risk of leaving work, or struggling to sustain performance.
Educational Function Consultation
For K-12 students and families
IEP and 504 meeting preparation, school-function and attendance concerns, executive-functioning support, documentation clarity, and return-to-school planning. This track is arranged through a parent or guardian, and there is no age limit on this pathway.
This is not special education legal advocacy or school psychological evaluation. It helps families organize functional concerns and prepare for a more productive school conversation.
Academic and Program Function Consultation
For college, graduate, training, licensing, and clinical-placement students
Academic accommodation planning, disability-services documentation, program demands and participation concerns, return-to-program planning, and sustainable participation in high-demand settings.
Documentation Clarity Review
For work, school, and program contexts
A focused review of provider letters, FMLA paperwork, ADA and human resources forms, IEP and 504 records, psychoeducational or neuropsychological reports, and similar documents — identifying missing functional information, vague language, over-disclosure risks, weak links between symptoms and barriers, and the questions worth asking a provider, school, or employer.
Executive-Functioning Support
For work, school, or program participation
Practical skill-building around task initiation, prioritization, planning, time management, working-memory supports, pacing, communication routines, and organization systems — offered as focused consultation, as recurring skill-building, or as part of a return plan.
Leave-to-Return and Stay-Engaged Planning
For return-to-work, return-to-school, and return-to-program transitions
Structured support for clients who are written out of work, on leave, or returning after hospitalization, burnout, injury, or illness — including pacing and gradual re-entry, communication planning, documentation updates, accommodation use, and relapse or burnout prevention.
Especially useful when returning too quickly, without structure, would risk overwhelm or relapse.
What the process may include
- Understand the settingJob description, essential functions, schedule, physical and cognitive demands, supervision structure, and what has already been tried.
- Map the functional barriersWhere concentration, stamina, pacing, attendance, memory, communication, emotional regulation, or follow-through are breaking down against those specific demands.
- Review the documentationWhat the existing letters and forms actually say, what a decision-maker still needs, and where the language is too vague or too disclosing.
- Identify accommodation options to discussPractical adjustments worth raising, drawn from the demands of the role rather than from the diagnosis alone.
- Plan the conversationHow to describe limitations clearly to an employer, school, provider, or human resources contact without over-explaining.
- Build the return or stay planPacing, sequencing, checkpoints, and what to do if the plan is not holding.
Common questions about consultation
Is this billable to insurance?
No. Clinical Function and Accommodation Consultation is private pay only. It is not billable to insurance and no superbill is issued. Fees are confirmed in a written fee agreement before services begin.
What is Clinical Function and Accommodation Consultation?
A structured consultation service that helps clarify job or school demands, functional barriers, documentation needs, accommodation options, executive-functioning challenges, and return-to-work, return-to-school, or return-to-program planning.
Is this the same as therapy?
No. Consultation is focused on function, planning, documentation clarity, and next steps. Function-Focused Psychotherapy is a clinical treatment service. Some clients use both, with clear boundaries between them.
Can this help with workplace accommodations?
Yes. Workplace Function Consultation helps clarify job demands, functional barriers, documentation needs, accommodation options to discuss, and stay-at-work or return-to-work planning. The employer, not this practice, decides what is approved.
Can this help with my child’s school accommodations?
Yes. Educational Function Consultation supports K-12 students and families through a parent or guardian, including IEP and 504 preparation, attendance and school-function concerns, documentation clarity, and return-to-school planning.
Can this help with FMLA or leave-related concerns?
Yes. Consultation can help organize work-function concerns, identify documentation gaps, prepare provider-facing questions, and plan return-to-work or stay-engaged strategy. Leave approval itself is decided by the employer or administrator.
Can you speak with my employer, school, provider, or attorney?
Third-party communication may be considered only with appropriate written authorization, a clearly defined scope, and defined role boundaries.
Do you provide forensic or expert-witness services?
Not through this practice. Forensic vocational consultation and expert-witness work are rendered through a separate firm, The Vocational Standard, at (980) 326-0616.
Scope of this service
This is a clinical-functional consultation service supporting preparation, planning, documentation clarity, and practical skill-building. Decisions about FMLA, ADA accommodations, IEP and 504 supports, benefits, leave approval, claims, or program requirements are made by the responsible employer, school, program, provider, benefits administrator, insurer, or governing body. No accommodation approval, return to work, job retention, or claim outcome is guaranteed. A diagnosis alone does not establish a workplace limitation. When a request falls outside this scope, clients may be referred to an appropriate treating provider, attorney, advocate, evaluator, or crisis resource.
For authoritative public guidance on reasonable accommodation and return to work, see the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Job Accommodation Network, and the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Disability Employment Policy.
Clarify what you need. Identify the next step.
If workplace, academic, documentation, or return-planning concerns are affecting your participation, consultation can help.