The Final Step Before Placement
The most thorough vetting process in the world still has a gap: psychological evaluations. Sentinel closes it with validated screening — structured clinical interviews, assessments and written reports — designed exclusively for household staffing agencies. Because informed placement decisions are your agency's strongest risk mitigation tool.
Psychological Screenings
Sentinel works exclusively with household staffing agencies. Our licensed psychologists provide the clinical layer your vetting process is missing: validated assessment, structured clinical interview, and a written report delivered within 48 hours. The result is a placement decision grounded in psychological data, not instinct.
Why Agencies Choose Sentinel
Expert Clinical Insight
We provide deep psychological screenings tailored for high-end household staffing, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of personality and behavioral traits beyond standard background checks.
Fast Scheduling. Faster Results.
Sentinel evaluations are conducted entirely via telehealth — meaning no scheduling delays, no travel requirements, and no geographic restrictions. Candidates complete their assessment remotely and reports reach your agency within 48 hours of the completed evaluation.
Risk Mitigation Strategy
Our licensed clinicians are trained to identify the psychological risk factors that background checks can't surface — patterns of behavior, stress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal functioning. Agencies receive a clear written determination, not a stack of raw data to interpret on their own.
Nationwide Reach
Sentinel consultants hold licenses in multiple states and PSYPACT authorization — enabling licensed telepsychological services across 40+ states. Whether your candidates are based in New York, Los Angeles, or anywhere in between, Sentinel screens them without geographic limitations or additional coordination.
Translation Services
Sentinel evaluations are available in multiple languages for an additional fee. Our consultants conduct structured clinical interviews in the candidate's preferred language — ensuring accurate assessment and eliminating the clinical risk of language barriers in evaluation.
About Sentinel
Sentinel Psychological Consultants was founded by Dr. Lyndsay Elliott, PsyD, a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist with over 20 years of experience evaluating high-stakes psychological risk.
Over two decades of forensic and clinical work, Dr. Elliott repeatedly saw the same gap: industries that place people in positions of enormous trust — access to children, to homes, to vulnerable family members — were relying almost entirely on background checks and reference calls. Those tools confirm what someone has done. They say almost nothing about how someone will hold up under stress, isolation, or the unique pressures of working inside a private household. Unaddressed stress, emotional dysregulation, or underlying mental health concerns can affect judgment and reliability in exactly the moments a household depends on stability most — and none of which shows up on a criminal record.
Household staffing is one of the only industries that grants this level of unsupervised access without requiring the kind of psychological evaluation that's now standard for first responders, aviation and other high-trust professions. Dr. Elliott founded Sentinel to close that gap — bringing the same clinical rigor used in forensic and high-stakes evaluation into the household staffing placement process, so agencies can make hiring decisions backed by psychological data, not just paperwork.
Sentinel's consultants are licensed psychologists trained in clinical and forensic assessment. Every psychological screening is conducted with the same standard of rigor Dr. Elliott brought to her work as an expert witness in the courtroom — applied here to protect the families and homes that trust your agency's placements.
Our Services
Sentinel works exclusively with household staffing agencies — providing the clinical layer that background checks, reference calls, and gut instinct can't replace. From initial candidate screening through post-placement conflict resolution, every service we offer is designed to protect your agency's placements, your clients, and your reputation.
Meet with our clinicians to review your to assess your agency's screening needs and determine the right approach for your placement process.
A structured clinical interview and validated psychological assessment, conducted via telehealth and completed within 48 hours. Your agency receives a written report with a clear determination — Cleared or Concerns Identified.
Psychological Screening FAQ for Agencies
Professional Inquiries
Connect with our clinical experts to discuss bespoke screening protocols for high-end household staffing agencies.
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Sentinel operates entirely via telehealth — screening candidates across 45+ states through PSYPACT authorization and state-specific licensure. No geographic limitations. No additional coordination required.