Understanding
the Whole Picture

Sometimes symptoms overlap. Stress can affect mood, sleep, relationships, focus, and daily functioning. Substance use can affect emotional regulation, work, health, and the ability to cope.

Designed to Overcome provides thoughtful, collaborative substance-use and behavioral-health assessment for adults in Friendswood, Texas, the greater Houston area, and, when clinically appropriate, through secure telehealth for eligible clients located elsewhere in Texas. When the picture is unclear, clinical assessment can help clarify what may be contributing—and identify the next right step.

At Designed to Overcome, assessment begins with a simple question:
What are we trying to understand? Rather than beginning with a test, we begin with the person.

Welcoming clinical assessment space at Designed to Overcome in Friendswood, TX, representing clarity, behavioral health assessment, and personalized care.

Request an Assessment Consultation

A brief consultation helps determine whether assessment is the right fit for your needs.

When Answers Are Not Simple

You may benefit from an assessment when you—or another provider—are asking questions such as:

Is alcohol or drug use becoming a clinical concern?
Could substance use, stress, emotional symptoms, or behavioral patterns be affecting one another?
Why am I struggling with anger, emotional regulation, relationships, unhealthy coping, or daily functioning?
Would additional assessment help clarify my treatment or recovery needs?
Does my concern suggest that I should be referred for another type of specialized evaluation?

Designed to Overcome provides individualized clinical assessment and evaluation services focused on understanding substance use, behavioral health concerns, emotional functioning, and appropriate next steps.

Assessment is not about placing someone into a category. It is about gathering the right information to better understand the whole picture and determine the most appropriate next step.

What We May Assess

Assessment services are individualized. The type of assessment offered depends on the referral question, your needs, and the evaluating clinician’s professional license, training, demonstrated competence, and available assessment methods.

Clinical assessment services for substance use, behavioral health, attention, emotional functioning, co-occurring concerns, and treatment planning at Designed to Overcome.

Clinical assessment and evaluation process including clinical interview, records review, standardized measures, clinical integration, and personalized recommendations.

A score alone does not tell someone’s story. Our process may integrate multiple appropriate sources of information to understand the referral question in context.

Assessment Should Be Comprehensive in Context—Not Mechanical in Process

Our Approach

A COLLABORATIVE MODEL

Two Licensed Clinicians. Defined Roles. Coordinated Care.

Dr. Esther Odamah, Ph.D., LCDC, CAMS-II, providing substance use assessment and addiction counseling at Designed to Overcome.

Dr. Taish Malone, Ph.D., LPC-S, providing behavioral health assessment services through Designed to Overcome.

Designed to Overcome uses a collaborative approach when a client’s concerns may benefit from both substance-use expertise and behavioral-health assessment.

OUR ASSESSMENT PROCESS

A Thoughtful, Step-by-Step Approach

Clinical assessment referral guidance emphasizing appropriate evaluation and client well-being at Designed to Overcome.

Clinical assessment options at Designed to Overcome include in-person, secure telehealth, and hybrid assessment services.

Important information about clinical assessment services, professional scope of practice, medical referrals, and crisis limitations at Designed to Overcome.

You do not have to figure it out before contacting us. Tell us what you are experiencing and what you hope to understand. We will help determine whether our assessment services are appropriate—or whether another professional may be better equipped to answer your question.

Not Sure What You Need?

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