Maybe closeness with the people you love always seems to tip into conflict, and you feel like you are forever bracing for the next rupture. Maybe you are simply worn out from managing feelings that swing harder than they should. A Personality Disorder Assessment in Glendale, WI helps you understand those long standing emotional and relational patterns instead of just enduring them. No referral is needed to begin.
At Core Spring Diagnostics, a single licensed psychologist carries your Personality Disorder Assessment from the first conversation to the last, never handing you off. The work starts from a baseline of cognitive and executive function, then builds outward with a thorough clinical interview and established personality measures chosen for your situation. Because these patterns seldom trace back to one cause, we screen carefully for co occurring conditions along the way.
In younger children we look at patterns, not at a personality disorder diagnosis, which is generally reserved for adulthood. That might mean big, hard to settle emotions, real struggles with friendships and transitions, or reactions that feel outsized. Everything is framed as early support and understanding, never a fixed label.
Older teens may carry intense, fast shifting emotions, an uncertain sense of who they are, relationships that swing between very close and very distant, and impulsive choices. We work to understand what is driving these patterns and what genuinely steadies them, holding any diagnosis loosely at this stage of development.
You might notice the same painful conflicts in relationship after relationship, a self image that never feels solid, strong emotional swings, a deep fear of being left, or impulsive decisions you later regret. Many adults arrive here after years of half explanations that never quite fit.
Your evaluation opens with about an hour of conversation in which your psychologist gathers a full history of your emotional life, from early childhood through the way things feel now. Together you trace the patterns, their triggers, and how they touch your daily functioning, which points to the right assessments to use.
Guided by that first conversation, your psychologist assembles a testing battery matched to your emotional and relational concerns. Expect roughly 2 to 6 hours of in person work across one to two days, plus self report questionnaires to complete at home, and someone close to you may fill out their own if you wish. Signs of other conditions, such as ADHD, depression, or trauma, are screened for as they surface.
Every piece, the testing data, the clinical observations, and the questionnaire results, is drawn together into one detailed report. Any co occurring conditions found along the way are documented in full, so you leave with a clear and complete picture of what is really shaping your experience.
Typically two to three weeks later you come back for a feedback session where your psychologist walks you through the findings in plain terms. You receive individualized recommendations: practical coping strategies for home and work, evidence based therapy options such as CBT, guidance to discuss with a prescriber if relevant, and next steps built around your situation.
No. You never need a referral to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. Reach out to us directly, for any reason at all, and we will coordinate with your therapist or another provider only if that is something you want.
A thorough clinical interview and personality measures built on a baseline of cognitive and executive function, with careful screening for co-occurring mood, anxiety, trauma, and attention concerns. A single psychologist runs the entire evaluation and then explains what it all means.
No. The point is understanding. If a diagnosis does fit, it is only one piece of a larger picture, and the real value lies in clear, individualized recommendations and a path toward the support most likely to help you.
Generally not. With children and younger teens we concentrate on understanding emotional and relational patterns and what supports them, rather than applying a diagnosis that is reserved for adulthood.
A plain language report and a feedback session full of practical recommendations, including therapy approaches and supports matched precisely to what the evaluation uncovered.
Call us at (414) 387-2100 and we will walk you through the first steps and find a time that works. There is no referral to chase and no wrong reason to reach out.
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