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“The future influences the present just as much as the past”
Friedrich W. Nietzsche
IDENTITY
Sometimes we don't have a firm sense of who we are and I often hear "I just want to figure out who I am." I think that therapy offers a great opportunity to explore, change, or create our identity outside of the judgment that we can often experience in life. I'd love to support you in getting to know yourself better.
IDENTITY
Sometimes we don't have a firm sense of who we are and I often hear "I just want to figure out who I am." I think that therapy offers a great opportunity to explore, change, or create our identity outside of the judgment that we can often experience in life. I'd love to support you in getting to know yourself better.
WHAT ELSE DOES ASSESSMENT CONSIDER?
Challenging behaviors in children or adolescents can often represent underlying emotional distress. Having insight into the nature of this distress or root cause of the behavior challenges is helpful in order to know how to support the child or adolescent in the home and at school and to decide if therapy might be useful.
A psychological assessment typically involves interviews with the child or adolescent and with the parents. Specific questionnaires may also be given to parents, the child and (with permission) to teachers, to explore the child or adolescent’s behavior and emotional well-being across different settings.
Some domains I may assess include behaviour, socio-emotional functioning, adaptive functioning, cognition, academic performance,