Maybe the same fights keep flaring in every relationship you have, or maybe your sense of who you are shifts depending on who is in the room. A Personality Disorder Assessment in Fox Point, WI is a careful way to understand those long standing emotional and relational patterns instead of just being told to manage them. No referral is needed to begin.
Every Personality Disorder Assessment in Fox Point, WI is led by one licensed psychologist from start to finish, built on a baseline reading of cognitive and executive function and then shaped around your specific concerns through a detailed clinical interview and personality measures. Because emotional and relational patterns almost never trace back to one cause, we screen deliberately for conditions that often sit alongside them.
In younger children we watch emotional and relational patterns rather than reach for a personality disorder diagnosis, which is held for adulthood. That might look like very big feelings, real trouble with transitions, or friendships that keep coming apart. We frame all of it as early support, never a fixed label.
Older teens sometimes show emotions that swing hard and fast, a self image that keeps shifting, relationships that run hot and cold, or impulsive choices they struggle to steady. The assessment centers on understanding those patterns and what actually eases them, and any diagnosis is approached with real caution at this age.
For adults it often shows up as conflict that repeats across every relationship, an unsteady sense of self, intense emotional swings, a deep fear of being left, or the feeling that the same struggles follow you everywhere. Many arrive after years of partial answers that never quite fit.
We start with about an hour of unhurried conversation where your psychologist gathers a full history of your emotional life, from childhood forward into how things feel day to day now. That history surfaces the triggers and recurring patterns that tell us which measures will be the most useful ones to run.
From what the interview reveals, your psychologist assembles a testing battery matched to you, typically 2 to 6 hours of in person work spread across one to two days. You take home self report questionnaires as well, and someone close to you may complete one too. If signs of ADHD, depression, or trauma surface along the way, we screen those areas.
Every piece, the testing data, the clinical observations, and the questionnaire results, is drawn together into one detailed report. Anything co occurring that we identified is documented in full, so you leave holding a clear and complete account of what has been driving the patterns you came in with.
Roughly two to three weeks later you come back for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks you through the findings and hands you individualized recommendations: coping strategies for home and work, therapy options such as evidence-based approaches, guidance on medication where it applies, and clear next steps.
A thorough clinical interview and personality measures, both built on a baseline of cognitive and executive function, with deliberate screening for co occurring mood, anxiety, trauma, and attention concerns. One psychologist conducts every part of it and then walks you through what the findings mean.
No. Understanding is the goal. A diagnosis, if one genuinely fits, is only one piece of a fuller picture, and the real value lives in clear, individualized recommendations and a path toward the support most likely to help you.
No. Understanding is the goal. A diagnosis, if one genuinely fits, is only one piece of a fuller picture, and the real value lives in clear, individualized recommendations and a path toward the support most likely to help you.
Generally no. With children and younger teens we concentrate on understanding emotional and relational patterns and what helps them, rather than applying a diagnosis that is reserved for adulthood.
A report written in plain language and a feedback session full of practical guidance, including therapy approaches and supports matched precisely to what the assessment uncovered.
Call us at (414) 387-2100 and we will talk through your concerns and find a time that works. No referral is needed to book.
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