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Anxiety Disorder Assessment
Agoraphobia
Panic Disorder
Specific Phobias
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)
Separation Anxiety Disorder (Adult presentation)
Anxiety Disorder Due to Another Medical Condition
Substance/Medication-Induced Anxiety Disorder
Other Specified Anxiety Disorder
Unspecified Anxiety Disorder

Key Benefits of Anxiety Disorder Assessment

Each assessment explores symptom history, physiological reactivity, cognitive patterns, avoidance behaviors, functional impairments, and the presence of co-occurring concerns.

Because anxiety disorders frequently overlap with conditions such as trauma, ADHD, OCD, depression, or neurodivergent presentations, the assessment process screens for and evaluates these possibilities to ensure diagnostic accuracy and integrative treatment planning.

  • Clarifying Diagnosis: An anxiety assessment helps determine whether symptoms meet diagnostic criteria for a specific anxiety disorder (e.g., GAD, panic disorder, social anxiety), or whether they may reflect another condition such as ADHD, trauma, or depression. This clarity supports more effective, tailored treatment—and reduces the confusion that often comes with misdiagnosis.
  • Understanding Mood Patterns and Triggers: The assessment explores how anxious thoughts, bodily sensations, and avoidance behaviors interact. Many individuals gain insight into why certain environments, interactions, or internal states trigger intense worry or physical symptoms, such as racing heart, chest tightness, or gastrointestinal distress.
  • Validation and Self-Awareness: Receiving a formal diagnosis of anxiety can be profoundly validating. It can shift the narrative from “I’m just overly sensitive” or “I need to toughen up” to a compassionate, accurate understanding of your nervous system and lived experience.
  • Customized Treatment Planning: Assessment findings inform a targeted care plan that may include therapy (e.g., CBT, exposure-based, emotion-focused), medication referrals, or self-regulation strategies. Whether you experience chronic worry, panic attacks, or social anxiety, treatment is matched to your specific presentation.
  • Academic and Workplace Accommodations: A formal diagnosis may support accommodation requests (e.g., extended time, reduced performance pressure, modified environments) under educational or workplace accessibility frameworks.
  • Managing Emotional and Somatic Symptoms: Anxiety doesn’t just “live in the mind.” The assessment identifies how emotional tension expresses itself physically—through restlessness, sleep issues, digestive problems, or chronic fatigue—and connects you with strategies to support regulation and nervous system stability.
  • Insight into Co-Occurring Conditions: Anxiety often coexists with ADHD, trauma, OCD, or mood disorders. A thorough assessment helps differentiate between overlapping conditions and ensures all concerns are addressed—not just the most visible ones.
  • Support with Life Transitions and Stressors: Major life changes—like relocation, career shifts, grief, or identity transitions—can heighten anxiety. The assessment helps identify how situational stress interacts with baseline anxiety, allowing for proactive support and planning.
  • Family and Relationship Understanding: Anxiety can shape how individuals show up in relationships—through withdrawal, over-control, reassurance seeking, or irritability. Assessment findings can foster deeper understanding between partners, family members, or support systems.
  • Formal Diagnosis and Psychological Report: All assessments are conducted under supervised practice in accordance with the standards of the College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts of Ontario (CPBAO). Findings are synthesized into a comprehensive report that includes diagnostic impressions (if applicable), functional insights, and customized recommendations. This report can be shared—with your consent—with other professionals to support integrated care or accommodation processes.
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Cost

Services are tax-exempt under psychological healthcare provisions in Canada.

This flat-rate fee includes a comprehensive assessment process delivered under supervised practice, designed to provide clarity, diagnostic insight, and personalized recommendations.

These psychological services are available only to individuals residing in Canada. 

Assessment Pricing

Insurance Reimbursement

Anxiety disorder assessments are typically covered under extended health benefits as part of "Psychological Assessment Services." Most insurance plans in Canada include annual coverage for services provided by an independently licensed or supervised psychological professional.

Please check with your insurance provider to confirm the following:

  • Whether psychological assessments are included in your plan.
  • The total amount of coverage available per calendar year, so you know your budget.
  • If a referral from a physician is required for reimbursement.

An insurance receipt will be provided for you to submit to your insurance provider for reimbursement.

What is a Anxiety Disorder Assessment?

All psychological services, including assessments, are delivered under supervised practice.

An Anxiety Disorder Assessment is a comprehensive psychological evaluation designed to explore chronic worry, fear, panic, avoidance, or stress-related symptoms that interfere with daily functioning, relationships, or well-being. The goal is to clarify whether these experiences meet diagnostic criteria for an anxiety-related condition, identify co-occurring concerns, and provide personalized recommendations for care.

Conditions commonly assessed include:

  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD): Persistent, excessive worry across multiple areas of life (e.g., health, relationships, work), often accompanied by restlessness, fatigue, sleep disturbance, irritability, and concentration problems.
  • Panic Disorder: Recurrent unexpected panic attacks and ongoing fear of having more. Symptoms include heart palpitations, shortness of breath, chest pain, dizziness, and fear of losing control or dying.
  • Social Anxiety Disorder: Intense fear of being judged or scrutinized in social or performance situations. May lead to avoidance, anticipatory dread, and distress in everyday interactions.
  • Specific Phobias: Marked fear of specific objects or situations (e.g., heights, animals, flying) that is out of proportion to the actual danger, causing distress or avoidance.
  • Agoraphobia: Fear of being in places or situations where escape may be difficult. This can include crowds, public transit, open spaces, or being outside alone.
  • Separation Anxiety Disorder (Adult Presentation): Strong distress related to separation from attachment figures, often rooted in early experiences but persisting or emerging later in life.
  • Anxiety Due to a Medical Condition or Substance Use: Assessment considers whether anxiety symptoms may be linked to physical health issues, medications, or the use/withdrawal of substances.
  • Substance/Medication-Induced Anxiety Disorder: Anxiety symptoms resulting from substance intoxication, withdrawal, or side effects of medications or other substances.
  • Other Specified Anxiety Disorder: Presentations of anxiety symptoms that cause significant distress or impairment but do not fully meet the criteria for a specific anxiety disorder. The clinician specifies the reason the presentation does not meet full criteria.
  • Unspecified Anxiety Disorder: An anxiety presentation causing clinically significant distress or impairment that does not meet the full criteria for any specific disorder, and the clinician chooses not to specify the reason.
Psychological Assessment Overview

What's Included

This is a flat-rate fee for a comprehensive psychological assessment focused on evaluating anxiety-related concernssuch as chronic worry, panic attacks, social fears, phobias, and emotional distress. The goal is to provide diagnostic clarity, meaningful insight, and personalized recommendations to support treatment, coping strategies, and overall well-being.

The full assessment process typically includes four sessions, offered in-person or virtually (within Canada), and involves:

  • Clinical Interviews: A detailed exploration of your current concerns, symptom history, emotional responses, coping strategies, and psychosocial stressors. This helps identify patterns of anxiety, avoidance, and internalized distress.
  • Structured Diagnostic Interviewing: Use of validated clinical tools (e.g., MINI, SCID, or disorder-specific interviews) to assess diagnostic criteria for anxiety disorders and differentiate from overlapping conditions like trauma, ADHD, or OCD.
  • Psychological Testing: Completion of standardized self-report and performance-based measures that assess the severity, triggers, and functional impact of anxiety, as well as related factors such as emotional regulation, sleep, and concentration.
  • Collateral Input (if applicable): With your written consent, input may be gathered from a family member, partner, or care provider to add context and clarity to symptom patterns and real-world impact.
  • Interpretation and Integration: All findings are thoughtfully synthesized to develop a strengths-based clinical formulation that captures your emotional experience and clarifies your mental health profile.
  • Comprehensive Written Report: Includes DSM-5-TR diagnostic impressions (where appropriate), clinical formulation, and personalized recommendations for treatment, support, and care planning.
  • Professional Oversight: All assessment findings, reports, and diagnostic impressions are reviewed and co-signed by a registered member of the College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts of Ontario, in accordance with regulatory requirements for supervised practice.
  • Feedback Session: A collaborative review of the assessment results, diagnostic considerations, and next steps. This session supports reflection, understanding, and planning.
  • Collaborative Care: With your written consent, the final report and clinical findings can be shared with your physician, psychiatrist, or other healthcare professionals to support coordinated, integrated care
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What are Anxiety Disorders?

Core Symptoms

Understanding Anxiety Disorders—More Than Just Stress

Anxiety disorders are a group of mental health conditions that affect how a person experiences fear, worry, and internal tension. While occasional anxiety is a natural response to life’s challenges, anxiety disorders involve persistent, excessive, or irrational fear that interferes with relationships, work, self-care, and overall functioning.

Anxiety can manifest through mental preoccupation, physical symptoms, emotional distress, and behavioral avoidance. These patterns may be constant or triggered by specific situations, and they often occur outside of conscious control.

Conditions in this category include Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Panic Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Specific Phobias, Agoraphobia, and Separation Anxiety Disorder, among others. Accurate diagnosis is essential, as anxiety often overlaps with conditions such as trauma, ADHD, OCD, or mood disorders—each requiring a distinct treatment approach.

Anxiety disorders are not a sign of weakness or overreacting. They are complex conditions influenced by biological, psychological, and environmental factors, including nervous system sensitivity, cognitive processing styles, early attachment experiences, and chronic stress.

  • Cognitive Symptoms:
    • Excessive or uncontrollable worry
    • Catastrophic thinking or rumination
    • Difficulty concentrating or mind “going blank”
    • Fear of losing control or “going crazy”
    • Persistent thoughts about safety, performance, or social evaluation
  • Physical Symptoms:
    • Muscle tension or chronic physical pain
    • Rapid heartbeat or heart palpitations
    • Chest tightness or shortness of breath
    • Gastrointestinal discomfort (e.g., nausea, IBS-like symptoms)
    • Dizziness, lightheadedness, or numbness
    • Sleep disturbances (insomnia, restlessness, frequent waking)
  • Emotional and Behavioral Symptoms:
    • Irritability or emotional volatility
    • Avoidance of feared situations or triggers
    • Hypervigilance or feeling constantly “on edge”
    • Panic attacks or sudden surges of intense fear
    • Difficulty relaxing or feeling safe even in low-risk environments
    • Reassurance seeking or overchecking behaviors

How is Anxiety Disorders are Assessed?

A Step-by-Step Look at the Evaluation Process

A comprehensive Anxiety Disorder Assessment uses multiple sources of information to develop a nuanced understanding of your emotional functioning, fear patterns, physiological reactivity, and daily coping strategies. The goal is to determine whether symptoms meet diagnostic criteria for an anxiety-related condition, identify contributing or co-occurring factors, and provide clear, personalized guidance for support or treatment.

  • Clinical Interview: The process begins with an in-depth clinical interview to explore your current symptoms, history of anxiety or stress-related reactions, life stressors, and how these symptoms have impacted your relationships, functioning, and quality of life.
  • Structured Diagnostic Interview: Validated diagnostic tools (e.g., MINI, SCID, or anxiety-specific structured interviews) are used to assess the presence, severity, and duration of anxiety symptoms. This helps differentiate between specific anxiety disorders and distinguish anxiety from related issues such as trauma, ADHD, OCD, or mood disorders.
  • Standardized Self-Report Measures: You will complete a series of evidence-based questionnaires designed to assess worry patterns, avoidance behavior, physiological symptoms (e.g., tension, sleep disruption), and emotional regulation. These measures capture the internal experience of anxiety and its real-world effects.
  • Collateral Input (if applicable): With your consent, information may be gathered from family members, partners, or other professionals to provide context, historical background, or behavioral observations that support diagnostic accuracy.
  • Cognitive and Functional Screening: When relevant, brief cognitive or functional tasks may be included to assess executive functioning, attention, or processing speed—especially in cases where anxiety appears to affect concentration, memory, or performance under pressure.
  • Screening for Co-Occurring Conditions: Anxiety often overlaps with conditions such as trauma, depression, ADHD, or obsessive-compulsive symptoms. The assessment process includes screening for these related concerns to ensure diagnostic clarity and avoid misattributing symptoms to the wrong cause.
  • Integrated Clinical Formulation and Report: All findings are synthesized into a comprehensive psychological report that includes diagnostic impressions based on DSM-5-TR criteria, a contextual clinical formulation, and tailored recommendations for treatment, support, or follow-up care.
  • Professional Oversight: Assessments are reviewed and co-signed by a registered member of the College of Psychologists of Ontario if the assessor is in supervised practice.
Benefits of Psychology Assessment

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What are Psychological Assessments?

A psychological assessment is like a check-up for your mind. Just as you might go to a doctor to see how your body is doing, you might see a psychologist or another mental health professional to check your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. They use special tests, interviews, and observations during the assessment to understand how you think, feel, and act. They might ask about your past, daily life, or any challenges you face. 

The goal is to understand your mental and emotional well-being clearly. This can help determine if you need support and what kind might be best. It's all about understanding and helping you be your best self.

The Process

The process can vary based on the reasons for the assessment and the specific tools or methods used. However, here's a general overview of what you might expect.

Referral or Request

Step 1

The process often starts when someone (like a doctor, teacher, parent, or the individual themselves) notices a concern and thinks a deeper understanding is needed.

Initial Interview

Step 2

This is a conversation where the psychologist or clinician gets to know you, understands your concerns and gathers background information. They'll ask about your history, past experiences, and any current challenges you face.

Selection of Assessment Tools

Step 3

Specific standardized tests may be chosen depending on the concerns raised. These tests have been designed to measure certain aspects of mental function, such as intelligence, mood, personality, or other areas.

Assessment and Testing

Step 4

Questionnaires or Surveys: Sets of questions about feelings, thoughts, or behaviors.

Performance Tests: Tasks or puzzles to solve.

Observations: Watching how someone behaves in certain situations.

Interviews: More in-depth conversations about specific topics.

Analysis

Step 5

The psychologist will review and interpret the results once the tests are completed. They'll assemble all the information from the tests, interviews, and observations.

Feedback Session

Step 6

You'll typically meet with the psychologist after the analysis. They'll discuss the findings with you, providing insights about your strengths, areas for growth, and any recommendations they might have. This might include therapy, educational support, or other interventions.

Report Writing

Step 7

The psychologist will often write a detailed report summarizing the assessment results, conclusions, and recommendations. With your permission, this document can be shared with other professionals to help guide any support or interventions you might need.

Follow-Up

Step 8

Depending on the findings and recommendations, follow-up sessions or referrals to other specialists might be needed for further assistance.

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Kevin William Grant— Psychological Associate in Supervised Practice
College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts of Ontario
Certificate Number: 10006872
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Karen Redhill-Feinstein— Psychological Associate
College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts of Ontario
Registration Number: 5265

Psychological Services, including psychological assessment, are provided by Kevin William Grant, Psychological Associate in Supervised Practice with the College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts of Ontario. All psychological and assessment services are delivered under the supervision of a registered Psychological Associate or Psychologist, as required by regulatory guidelines. Clinical supervisors review case material and assessment reports, provide oversight, and are available for consultation to ensure the quality and ethical delivery of care.

Psychotherapy Services are provided by Kevin William Grant, a Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO) in autonomous practice, licensed by the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario.

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