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Therapeutic Assessment
Therapeutic Assessment is a collaborative, short-term process that uses psychological testing as a tool for insight and healing, not just diagnosis. It’s designed to help you and your child better understand emotional or behavioral challenges, uncover the meaning behind them, and identify strengths. Together, we explore your questions and concerns and use the assessment process to support growth, clarity, and connection within your family.
Is 'therapeutic' psychological assessment the right path for me?
Therapeutic Assessment may be the right fit for your child and family when you're seeking more than just a diagnosis. You want a deeper understanding of your child’s struggles and guidance that supports healing, insight, and stronger relationships.
What to expect:
Therapeutic Assessment begins with a collaborative conversation to clarify your questions and concerns. From there, we use selected psychological tests, observations, and interviews to better understand your child’s experiences, strengths, and challenges.
This service is a hybrid of therapy and psychological assessment - at times in the process, we may pause to explore and understand testing findings, and to touch base about how the findings map onto your experiences. We then come together for a feedback session where I share insights and recommendations from the testing, and we explore how this fits.
We also discuss how you might use the new information to shift or change your approach to the challenges. If it feels helpful, I meet with you several weeks after we complete the process, pro-bono, to touch base about how things are going, support you in applying the recommendations, and adjust strategies, as needed, to help your child and family continue to grow and thrive.
Therapeutic Psychological Assessment
What investment does 'therapeutic' psychological assessment require?
Therapeutic Assessment with adult clients
Typically cost is between $1500-$3000. This includes the initial meeting, 2-5 testing sessions that are 90-120 minutes in length, the feedback session, and time spent to write a letter that integrates testing findings and answers the questions that you identified at the start of the process. The expense can vary by the number of questions you would like to explore or with additional time spent writing documents/reports for specific audiences (e.g. for work/school accommodations).
Therapeutic Assessment with children or adolescents
Typically cost is between $1,700-$4000. This includes the initial meeting, 3-6 testing sessions and 1-2 discussion sessions that are 90-120 minutes in length, and time spent to write a letter that integrates testing findings and answers the questions that you and your child or adolescent identified at the start of the process. The expense can vary by the number of questions you would like to explore or with additional time spent writing documents/reports for specific audiences (e.g. a school reports).
If you are interested in this service, you can schedule a free 15-min consultation with Dr. Wolf to receive greater clarification about a plan for assessment that meets your specific needs. Dr. Wolf will provide an estimate for the services in this consultation. Any potential additions to this plan will be discussed with you, and you will have the option to add additional services or to keep with the original plan.
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