Toronto Psychologist Offers Psychological Assessments

Dr. O’Connor, a Toronto psychologist, offers psychological assessments and testing services, including school neuropsychological assessments, to children, adolescents and young adults in Toronto (Yonge & St. Clair). She also offers Psychological Assessment and Testing Services at offices in Barrie and Alliston to clients in Simcoe County and York Region. 

Dr. O'Connor's psychological assessments assess a range of psychological issues and concerns that present in children, adolescents and young adults. These include learning problems, academic issues and trauma related concerns, as well as  social, emotional and behavioral problems. Her services increase understanding of the psychological concerns that present in children, adolescents and young adults and lead to evidence based interventions to help promote positive outcomes in young people.

When you work with Dr. O’Connor you have access to the expertise and advice of an experienced clinical psychologist with expertise and training in school neuropsychology.  Dr. O'Connor has over 20 years of experience working with children, adolescents, young adults and their families, and the helping professionals who work with them. Dr. O'Connor's psychological assesssment and testing services reflect her post doctoral training in school neuropsychology. She integrates a school neuropsychological understanding into the psychological testing and assessment services she offers to young people, their families and the helping professionals who work with them.

A Toronto Psychologist Can Help

Dr. O'Connor's psychological assessment and testing services help "get to the root" of the psychological challenges young people face and lead to  evidence based solutions to address them. You will learn how well a young person is doing, compared to others his or her age, across a range of developmental domains. These include the social, emotional and behavioral domains, as well as the cognitive/learning domains.You will learn where a young person's strengths lie, and where there is cause for concern. Dr. O'Connor's psychological testing services uncover the nature and extent of the young person's psychological challenges, and how to address them. 

Dr. O'Connor's psychological assessments explore the multiple factors that often interact to contribute to and maintain the psychological concerns that surface in children, adolescents and young adults. Her assessments become part of the solution, and are every bit as critical in addressing the child problem, as the interventions that are developed to address it. As part of the solution the child assessment leads to evidence-based interventions to help promote positive outcomes in the children you care about and work with, despite the psychological challenges they face.

"Understanding the Problem is the Key to Solving It." The assessment, regardless of its focus is the key to developing a comprehensive understanding of the problem and how to address it.

Find out where things are going well and where interventions are required and what types of interventions might help.

Dr. O'Connor tailors the psychological assessments she offers to the individual needs of the child, adolescent or young person you are worried about.

Guiding Principles and Values

Early & Timely Intervention: Although symptoms of psychological concerns are often evident early on, other adolescent or child problems, such as traumatic and acquired brain injuries can surface later. Psychological concerns in children, adolescents or young adults, whether they surface early, or at a later stage, can benefit from timely intervention and support. The earlier we intervene when problems arise the greater the likelihood of preventing problems from escalating and becoming more difficult to reverse and/or deal with.

An Assessment Is Part of the Intervention: Dr. O'Connor's psychological assessments "get beneath the surface" to reveal what lies "at the root" of the psychological concerns that present in a young person. This includes the nature and extent of the problem, and what is contributing to and/or maintaining it and leads to evidence based interventions to help you help the children, adolescents and young adults you care about and work with.

One Size Does Not Fit All: Each child or adolescent presents with problems that are unique to his or her particular circumstance. Multiple and interacting factors that differ in each child contribute to the concerns he or she exhibits. Understanding the problem, and its unique presentation in each young person, points to the kind of interventions that are most likely to be effective for that child. Interventions work best when they are tailored to the child's individual needs and circumstance.

                     Dr. O'Connor's Approach

Dr. O'Connor, provides comprehensive, in depth psychological assessments  , which she integrates within the larger context of a school neuropsycholoical assessment to increase understanding of the psychological problems that can present in a young person, and how to help. Through her work as a psychologist she helps parents and young people move beyond the problem and what’s wrong. She explores "what’s working” and the strengths and positives that also present. She encourages parents and helping professionals to harness the positives and “what works” and to use these to develop evidence based interventions to help address child and adolescent problems, or those that present in a young person.  

Dr. O'Connor encourages the enhancement of healthier coping strategies in young people and increased psychological well-being and competence. Her services help promote positive outcomes in the children, adolescents and young people you care about and work with.

           How Can A Psychologist Help?

Dr. O'Connor, a Toronto psychologist, has extensive experience working with young people and their families. She has the expertise and training to help you, help the young people you care about and work with. Through her professional career as a licensed psychologist, she has worked with large numbers of young people, their families and the professionals who work with them. She offers evidence based interventions to help with the psychological concerns that present in a young person. Her services are tailored to the young person's individual needs and concerns.

In addition, through her training in school neuropsychology, Dr. O'Connor integrates an understanding of the neurobiological basis of the learning, emotional, social and behavior concerns that present in a young person. To learn more about Dr. O'Connor's psychological assessment and testing services for children, adolescents and young adults, click here.

Dr. O'Connor is the author of I Can Be Me-A Helping Book for Children from Troubled Families. This book includes a special focus on children of addicted family members. These children often exhibit social, emotional, behavioral and/ learning concerns. Dr. O'Connor's psychological assessments help explore these concerns and increase understanding of them and how to help.

Focus of Dr. O'Connor's Practice

, Dr. O'Connor, a Toronto Psychologist, focuses on the following issues and concerns:

• Learning Disabilities
• Reading and Other Learning Disorders
• Memory Problems
  
• Learning/School Problems
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Behavior, Social and/or Emotional Problems
• Child Trauma including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Complex Trauma.
  

Psychological Assessments Include:

• Comprehensive Psychological Assessments: 
• School Neuropsychological Assessments
• Trauma Based Assessments
  
• Gifted Assessments
• Social, Emotional and Behavioral Assessments

Dr. O'Connor's assessments integrate a school neuropsychological perspective.

Learn more about Dr. O'Connor's psychological testing process, the measures and tests she uses and her psychological testing process.