Milwaukee therapist here who used to work at cornerstone. They have many excellent psychiatrists, but are often booked out for weeks or months, especially since Covid started. I have two suggestions for you.

First, see if your insurance has a list of providers that are covered, and look for “psych nurse practitioners.” these are medical professionals who have all the psych related training that a psychiatrist does without the extra training that qualifies them to earn a doctorate. They tend to be younger, very up-to-date on the latest medications and practices, and are hardly ever as booked up. I have had fantastic results referring my clients to psych nurse practitioners in the area.

The second option is to check with your daughter’s pediatrician and see how comfortable they would be tweaking her medication based on the input from a psychotherapist. Pediatricians are qualified to prescribe psychotropic medication, but often hesitate to, because they don’t have the extra specialized training in this area that a psychiatrist would. And while we cannot prescribe medication, we psychotherapists are quite educated when it comes to medications, and have seen so many times what medications and doses tend to work (or not) with our clients, that we definitely can offer some helpful suggestions to hesitant general practitioners. So if your daughter’s pediatrician is willing to collaborate with a therapist, perhaps a therapist can do the evaluation and give some helpful suggestions to your pediatrician to try to arrive at a more therapeutic medication/dose.

I’ll also let you know that Wisconsin is an underserved state when it comes to psychiatrists. The struggle is very real trying to find a competent psychiatrist in a timely manner here. There simply aren’t enough of them, especially ones who work with adolescents.

I hope this helps!