Psychosocial Assessments
for Legal Representation Applications
Montreal and Virtually Throughout Quebec
Psychosocial Assessments for Legal Representation Applications
(Available in English and French / Disponible en anglais et en français)
Trauma-Informed, Culturally Attuned, and Human-Centered Private Assessments
At Clinic Altera, psychosocial assessments are not simply administrative procedures. They are opportunities to understand a person’s story with dignity, depth, and compassion.
Our licensed social workers approach each assessment with a trauma-informed, systemic, and multicultural perspective, ensuring that the individual’s voice, values, and lived experience are always at the center.
We believe that behind every legal measure, such as a protection mandate, tutorship, or curatorship, there is a person navigating complex emotional, social, and environmental changes. Our clinicians provide sensitive, ethical, and evidence-based support throughout the process.
Applications and Referrals
Psychosocial assessments may be required to support:
Applications for tutorship, curatorship, or protection mandates
Court proceedings or Public Curator evaluations
Guardianship or other legal representation decisions
Referrals can be made by a lawyer, notary, family member, or healthcare professional. Assessments are available in-person at our Montreal clinic or virtually across Quebec.
What Makes Our Approach Different
While psychosocial assessments must comply with the Regulation Respecting the Public Curator Act (Québec) and the professional standards of the Ordre des travailleurs sociaux et des thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux du Québec (OTSTCFQ), the way we practice at Clinic Altera is what makes us unique:
Private and confidential: Conducted in a discreet and supportive settings by licensed professionals.
Detailed and comprehensive: Each assessment is tailored to the individual’s circumstances and includes a full exploration of emotional, social, and environmental factors.
Customized and person-centered: Reports are written to reflect each person’s story, strengths, and needs rather than relying on standardized templates.
Timely and efficient: We understand that legal timelines can be tight, so our team prioritizes prompt scheduling and rapid report completion without compromising quality.
Relational and compassionate: We take time to build trust so individuals feel seen and respected.
Culturally responsive: We consider how culture, language, migration, and systemic factors shape experience and functioning.
Trauma-informed and non-pathologizing: We interpret behaviors through the lens of protection, adaptation, and resilience.
Holistic and strength-based: We examine both challenges and capacities within the person’s social and environmental systems.
This balance of clinical depth, efficiency, and care ensures that every report meets both professional and human standards of excellence.
This combination of clinical depth and cultural humility ensures that our reports reflect the full complexity of each person’s context.
The Next Step ——>
To get started, you can book a free 15-minute consultation with our Social Worker Extraordinaire, Nadina Ramessar.
During this call, Nadina will take the time to understand your situation, explain the assessment process, and answer any questions you may have about timelines, costs, and what to expect.
This brief conversation helps ensure that the service is the right fit for your needs and that your assessment process begins with clarity, care, and confidence.
The Assessment Process
Our social workers use interviews, direct observation, and document review to understand each person’s unique situation. A psychosocial assessment typically explores:
Daily functioning, cognitive capacity, and adaptive skills
Emotional regulation and coping strategies
Family relationships, social supports, and community involvement
Life history, identity, and sources of meaning
Environmental, medical, and systemic factors affecting wellbeing
Following the assessment, you receive a comprehensive written report that integrates professional insight and clear recommendations. The report is suitable for legal representation applications, Public Curator submissions, or other protective measures and is designed to inform decision-making while respecting autonomy and dignity.
Meet Nadina!
The psychosocial assessment team at Clinic Altera is supervised by Nadina Ramessar, Psychosocial Support Supervisor, who has more than 15 years of experience in Quebec’s public health and social service sectors.
Nadina is recognized as an expert in psychosocial assessment, intervention, and support for adults, families, and vulnerable populations. Her leadership ensures that every assessment is completed with rigor, empathy, and compliance with the highest professional standards.
Under her supervision, our clinicians combine clinical precision with relational sensitivity, integrating public-sector expertise with Altera’s human-centered, trauma-informed approach.
