Maybe the hardest parts of your life were not one moment but a long stretch you learned to survive. You may still brace for the worst, doubt your own worth, or feel emotions swing hard and fast. A Complex PTSD Evaluation in Glendale, WI helps you understand those patterns with care, and you never need a referral to begin.
Every evaluation opens with a baseline of your cognitive and executive functioning, the foundation we build from. From there the testing bends toward the emotional and trauma related picture that brought you in, and one licensed psychologist carries you through each step rather than passing you between people. Because complex trauma rarely travels alone, we also screen for concerns that often sit alongside it.
In a child, we watch for how ongoing stress or hardship is showing up rather than rushing toward a label. The goal is to understand what is happening under the behavior and to name what helps them feel steady and safe.
A teen may struggle to steady intense feelings, carry a shaky or harsh view of themselves, and pull back from trust and closeness. When you learn what they have lived through, those reactions start to make sense rather than seeming out of nowhere.
Adults often describe a quiet, persistent shame, feelings that run to extremes, and relationships that feel hard to hold onto. A sense of never quite being safe can seep into work, love, and everyday moments.
We begin with an hour long conversation where your psychologist gathers a full personal history in a setting built to feel safe. Because complex trauma usually grows out of experiences that repeated over time, this talk covers a wider stretch of your life to see how it shaped your emotions, your relationships, and how you see yourself. You set the pace.
Your psychologist assembles a battery tailored to the layered effects of complex trauma, typically 2 to 6 hours of in person work spread across one to two days. You take questionnaires home, and someone close to you can fill out their own if they wish. Signs of anxiety, depression, dissociation, or ADHD are screened for when they appear.
Every piece, the testing data, the clinical observations, and the questionnaire results, is drawn together into a detailed diagnostic report. Your psychologist examines how complex trauma has touched your emotional regulation, identity, relationships, and thinking, and documents any co occurring conditions so the picture is complete.
Roughly two to three weeks later you come back for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks you through the findings and lays out recommendations made for you: trauma therapy options, ways to steady your emotions, relationship supports, and clear next steps for your healing.
No. A referral is never required to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You can reach out on your own, for any reason at all.
Complex PTSD usually grows out of trauma that repeated or lasted a long time, and it tends to reach into self image, emotion, and relationships. PTSD more often follows one specific event. The evaluation clarifies which fits you.
A trauma informed interview, a baseline of cognitive and executive function, measures focused on trauma and emotion, and screening for related concerns, all handled by one psychologist at a pace that respects you.
Yes. We see both teens and adults, and with younger clients we move through trauma related patterns slowly and gently.
A report written in plain language and a feedback session with individualized, trauma informed recommendations and a clear path toward healing.
Call us at (414) 387-2100 and we will help you find a time that works. There is no referral to chase first.
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