We stand with families.
Clarity Assessments was built on a simple belief: every child deserves to be understood, and every parent deserves to stop guessing.
Shelby Wolf, PhD, LP, BCBA-D, NCSP, HSP
A licensed psychologist (and a mother) with more than a decade of experience evaluating and supporting neurodivergent children, teens, and adults.
Dr. Wolf founded Clarity Assessments after watching too many families wait a year or more for answers, only to be handed a dense report and sent on their way. She built a different kind of practice: one where families work directly with the doctor evaluating their child, from the first phone call to the final follow-up.
Her credentials include a license as a psychologist (LP) and Health Service Psychologist (HSP), a PhD in School Psychology, board certification as a Doctoral-level Behavior Analyst (BCBA-D), and status as a Nationally Certified School Psychologist (NCSP). It's a combination you'll rarely find in a single clinician — and for your family, it matters less as a distinction than for what it makes possible: your child is understood through clinical, behavioral, and educational lenses at once, in one evaluation, instead of pieced together across three separate specialists.
If you’ve found your way here, you’ve probably been noticing things for a while — and maybe wondering whether you’re making too much of them. You’re not. I became a psychologist to be the person who takes those observations seriously, and being a mom has only made me more certain of it.
Here is what I can promise. I will listen before I test. I will tell you what I see, in plain language. And when we’re done, you won’t just have a diagnosis — you’ll have a plan, and me in your corner for the school meetings and hard conversations that come after. Whether you’re here for your child or for yourself, I hope you leave feeling understood, not judged.
Warmly,
Dr. Shelby Wolf
Rigorous, responsive, personal
Rigorous
Every evaluation includes 2–3+ hours of direct testing with your child or you, and many more hours behind the scenes — scoring, analysis, and the roadmap that turns it into answers you can act on.
Responsive
A standard neurodevelopmental evaluation can take a year or more to begin. We move swiftly, by design and by a capped caseload that protects the depth of every evaluation.
Personal
From your first call to your final follow-up, you work directly with the doctor, never left to make sense of it alone.
The path that led to this work.
- PhD, School Psychology — Oklahoma State University, 2018
- Predoctoral internship — Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center (integrated behavioral pediatrics)
- Postdoctoral training — Behavior Therapy Solutions of Minnesota (diagnostics and BCBA supervision) and Five Rivers Mental Health Clinic (diagnostics and therapy; led the development of in-home ABA services)
- Experience across hospital, clinic, and school settings — integrated behavioral pediatrics at an academic medical center, outpatient and in-home ABA clinics, and reading, math, and writing intervention with district-wide MTSS/PBIS consultation in schools. Clinical Director of Caravel Autism Health in Mankato (2019–2020), where she brought the clinic to town and built it from the ground up.
- 500+ neurodevelopmental evaluations across children, teens, and adults
- Supervision and teaching — supervises BCBAs and psychology interns; has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in developmental psychology, educational psychology, and applied behavior analysis
- Presenting and publishing — dozens of national and regional conference presentations; several published articles
Minnesota Licensed Psychologist LP6440 · NPI 1346766946
We help families understand their child,
so they can move forward with confidence.
Let's talk about your child.
No referral needed. No obligation. Just a complimentary conversation.
