Child & Teen Assessments in Calgary
Finally, a Clear Picture of Your Child.
When something about your child has felt hard to explain — the struggle at school, the intensity, the sense that they're working harder than they should have to — a psychological assessment can give you real answers. Our Calgary psychologists provide thorough, evidence-based assessments for ADHD, learning, autism, giftedness, and a child's emotional wellbeing.
An assessment isn't about labelling your child. It's about understanding how their mind works — their strengths as much as their challenges — so you, their school, and their support team finally have a clear, practical roadmap for helping them thrive.
THE PROCESS
What an Assessment Looks Like at Creative Sky
A good assessment is never just a test score. It's a careful, step-by-step process of getting to know your child — how they think, learn, feel, and experience the world — and translating that into answers you can actually use. Here's how it unfolds, from first conversation to a plan you can take to your child's school.
Step 01
Intake & History
We start with you. A thorough conversation about your concerns, your child's history, and what you're hoping to understand.
Step 02
Testing Sessions
One or more relaxed sessions with your child, using gold-standard tools chosen for their age and what we're exploring.
Step 03
Scoring & Interpretation
We bring the results together with your input and the school's, looking for the story the whole picture is telling.
Step 04
Feedback Meeting
We sit down and explain what we found in plain language — what it means, and what it doesn't — with room for every question.
Step 05
Report & Recommendations
A clear written report with practical, specific recommendations you can use at home, at school, and going forward.
Types of Assessment
Assessments Tailored to Your Question.
Every family arrives with a different question. Our Calgary psychologists offer a range of evidence-based assessments, and often combine them — because a child rarely fits neatly into one box, and the most useful answer is usually the fullest one.
ADHD Assessment
Clarifying attention, focus, impulsivity, and restlessness — and whether ADHD is the fullest explanation for what you're seeing.
Learn More →Psychoeducational
A deep look at how your child learns — cognition, reading, writing, and math together — to understand why school is hard and what helps.
Learn More →Cognitive Assessment
A clear measure of how your child reasons, remembers, and problem-solves — the intellectual profile underneath everything else.
Learn More →Autism Spectrum
Understanding how your child experiences the social and sensory world, using gold-standard, neurodiversity-affirming tools.
Learn More →Learning Disability
Pinpointing a specific difficulty in reading, writing, or math — so a child who's struggling gets the right, targeted support.
Learn More →Gifted Assessment
Identifying exceptional ability — and the intensity that often comes with it — so a bright child gets challenge and understanding.
Learn More →Meet the Assessment Team
The Psychologists Behind Your Child's Assessment
An assessment is only as good as the person interpreting it. Our Calgary psychologists bring advanced training in the specific tools of assessment, deep experience with ADHD, learning, autism, and giftedness, and a genuine care for the child behind every number — so you get answers you can trust and actually use.
Meghan Mak
Registered Psychologist
Autism • Psychoeducational • Learning Disorders
VIEW PROFILE →Ashley Gobin
Registered Psychologist
Psychoeducational • Learning Disabilities • Giftedness
VIEW PROFILE →Angela Ribout
Registered Psychologist
Giftedness • Learning Disabilities • ADHD & OCD
VIEW PROFILE →Braxtyn Horbay
Registered Psychologist
Psychoeducational • ADHD • Autism Assessments
VIEW PROFILE →Leighton Dahl
Registered Provisional Psychologist
Psychological • ADHD • Learning Challenges
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Who We Assess
Assessments for Every Age and Stage.
Creative Sky Psychology assesses children and teens from the preschool years through adolescence — whether you're here on your own instinct, at a school's suggestion, or looking for a clearer answer than you've been given before. We match the assessment to your child's age, and to the question that brought you here.
Preschoolers & Early Years
When something feels off before school has even started, our Calgary psychologists use gentle, play-based assessment suited to little ones — no long test batteries, just careful observation and age-appropriate tasks. Early answers matter, because the years before Grade 1 are when the right support makes the biggest difference, and when small difficulties are easiest to help before they grow.
School-Age Children
This is the most common time families reach out — learning, attention, and emotional struggles tend to show up clearly once a child meets the demands of the classroom. Our assessments clarify what's actually going on, and produce the kind of thorough, plain-language report a Calgary school can act on when it comes to accommodations and support.
Teens
Adolescents come to us with school pressure, mental health worries, or a question that's gone unanswered for years. Our Calgary psychologists carry out the assessment in a way that respects a teen's growing independence — bringing them into the process, explaining what we find directly to them, and never treating them as a problem to be diagnosed around.
School-Referred Families
If a teacher, learning support team, or school psychologist has recommended a private assessment, you're in the right place. We provide the comprehensive evaluation and clear, school-ready report that Calgary schools need to put formal accommodations, an IPP, or targeted support in place — and we're glad to liaise with the school along the way.
Second Opinions & Updates
Sometimes an earlier assessment didn't quite fit, left the important questions unanswered, or is simply out of date and due for a fresh look. Whether you saw another clinic, a Calgary therapist, or went through the school system, our psychologists are happy to take a careful second look and give you the clarity you were hoping for the first time.
Complex & 2e Profiles
Some children don't fit neatly into one category — gifted and struggling at once, or several overlapping difficulties that no single lens explains. This is where a thorough assessment earns its keep, and where our Calgary psychologists take the time to map the whole child so you finally get one joined-up picture instead of conflicting pieces.
Our Difference
Assessments Families Can Actually Use.
A good assessment isn't the one with the thickest report — it's the one that finally makes sense of your child and tells you what to do next. Everything about how our Calgary psychologists assess is built toward that: real answers, in plain language, that hold up at school and change things at home.
Thorough, Gold-Standard Testing
We use the same rigorous, well-validated tools the field relies on, chosen for your child's age and your specific question — never a rushed or one-size-fits-all evaluation.
Reports in Plain Language
Our reports are written to be understood, not decoded — clear about what we found, what it means, and what it doesn't, without a wall of jargon and numbers.
A Real Feedback Meeting
You don't just receive a document. We sit down and walk you through everything in person, so you leave understanding your child, with room for every question.
School-Ready Recommendations
Practical, specific recommendations your child's school can act on — the accommodations, supports, and next steps that turn a diagnosis into real help.
Assessments in Calgary & Across Alberta
Serving Families Throughout Calgary and Beyond
Creative Sky Psychology provides child and teen assessments from our Calgary office, with families travelling in from across the city and surrounding communities. Because the testing itself is best done in person, most of an assessment happens at the clinic — but we make the rest as flexible as we can, and we're glad to work with families coming from further afield in Alberta.
Neighbourhoods We Serve
- Aspen Woods
- West Springs
- Cougar Ridge
- Springbank Hill
- Wildwood
- Glenbrook
- Glendale
- Westgate
- Mount Royal
- Royal Oak
Families From Across Alberta
We regularly assess children whose families travel in from outside Calgary. While the hands-on testing needs to happen in person, we can often handle the intake conversation and the feedback meeting virtually — so you're not making the drive more times than necessary. If you're coming from further away, get in touch and we'll help make the logistics work.
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What You Walk Away With
An Assessment Gives You More Than a Label.
Families sometimes worry that an assessment is just a diagnosis on a page. It's the opposite. A good assessment hands you understanding, direction, and access — a clearer sense of your child, and the practical means to help them. It's less a label than a key.
It changes how well the people around them understand how to help — at home, at school, and in every room your child walks into next.
Clarity
A real understanding of how your child thinks, learns, and feels — an end to guessing and wondering what's going on.
An Explanation
A reason for the struggles you've been seeing — which, for a child who's felt "lazy" or "difficult," can be its own kind of relief.
A Roadmap
Clear, specific next steps — what will help, what to try, and where to focus — instead of a report that sits in a drawer.
School Support
The formal documentation schools use to put accommodations, learning support, and the right plan in place for your child.
Access & Relief
The doorway to services and funding your child may qualify for — and, for the whole family, the relief of finally knowing.
After the Assessment
The Report Is the Start, Not the End.
A diagnosis or a report is only useful if it leads somewhere. At Creative Sky Psychology, we don't hand you a document and send you on your way — we make sure you understand what it means and you know exactly what to do with it. And because we're a full child psychology clinic, the support your child may need next is already here under one roof.
A Plan You Understand
We walk you through the findings in person and translate them into clear, specific next steps — so you leave knowing what will actually help your child.
Support at School
School-ready recommendations you can bring to teachers and learning teams, and our help liaising with the school to put the right accommodations in place.
Therapy, If It's Needed
If the assessment points toward ongoing support, our psychologists offer child and teen therapy too — so you don't have to start over somewhere new.
Answers are only the beginning of feeling better. We stay alongside your family after the assessment is done — turning what we've learned into real changes at home, at school, and in how your child feels about themselves.
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Need an Assessment for an Adult or Older Teen?
Creative Sky Psychology focuses on assessments for children and teens. If you're looking for an assessment for yourself or an older teen, our sister clinic, NU Psychology, provides ADHD, psychoeducational, and psychological assessments for adults and adolescents — along with therapy for anxiety, ADHD, trauma, OCD, depression, and more.
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Ready for Some Answers?
If you've been wondering, worrying, or waiting for a clearer picture of your child, an assessment is the step that ends the guessing. From your first conversation onward, our Calgary psychologists will help you choose the right assessment, walk you through what to expect, and turn the answers into a real plan for home and school. You don't have to have it all figured out first — you just have to reach out.