Assessment + Diagnosis
Assessments can help you to learn more about your functioning and to explain difficulties you might be experiencing. An assessment might be beneficial for determining the best or most appropriate intervention or supports and resources available to you. It can also be helpful if you want to simply clarify your functioning and help you to better understand yourself and your unique needs.
Psychological Assessment
This type of assessment helps to clarify your mental health functioning by determining the presence of some mental health conditions (e.g., depression, anxiety, traumatic stress).
Complex Psychological Assessment
This would be appropriate if you have more complex mental health concerns, such as multiple possible diagnoses, personality disorders, or other more complex conditions.
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
An attentional disorder can result in a number of difficulties. It can include both difficulties with attention as well as difficulties with behavioural and emotional regulation. An assessment can help to confirm or rule out a diagnosis to determine appropriate behavioural supports and to clarify if medication might be warranted.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
An Autism assessment will include two major components - a measurement of cognitive functioning and an exploration of socioemotional functioning. Autism Spectrum Disorder affects an individual’s social communication, self-regulation, and behavioural functioning. We can assess toddlers, children, adolescents, and adults to clarify socioemotional functioning, confirm diagnosis, or to rule out and offer alternative explanations for challenges being observed.
Psychoeducational Assessments (Learning Disability)
If a child, adolescent, or adult struggles to read, write, or do mathematics, it may be that there is an underlying condition such as a learning disability. A psychoeducational assessment will help to determine if there are any deficits affecting learning and will provide recommendations for home and school to support the individual in their learning.
Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
If you have suffered an injury in the workplace and are experiencing subsequent mental health difficulties (e.g., depressed mood, anxiety, or traumatic stress), an assessment can help to clarify your functioning and determine whether you qualify for further supports, such as psychotherapy.