Maybe your child cannot leave a room until the switches feel right, or maybe you are the adult who circles back to check the locks long after you have left. When a thought will not let go and the ritual that quiets it keeps growing, you deserve straight answers. OCD Testing in Glendale, WI with Core Spring Diagnostics is a thorough, individualized evaluation, and no referral is needed to begin.
Each evaluation opens with a baseline picture of cognitive and executive function, then narrows to the exact obsessions and compulsions you describe. One licensed psychologist carries the work from your first phone call to the final feedback conversation, so nothing is handed off midway. We rely on structured, OCD specific measures and deliberately screen for the conditions that ride alongside OCD, including anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD.
You might notice rituals that must be repeated until they feel exactly right, hand washing that leaves skin raw, or a constant need to be reassured. Interrupting a routine can trigger real distress, and worries often loom far larger than whatever set them off.
Watch for rituals that swallow homework and sleep, along with intrusive thoughts that feel distressing and unwelcome. Some teens run silent mental compulsions like counting or reviewing, steer around triggers, and keep the behaviors hidden out of shame they cannot explain.
For adults the pattern often shows up as persistent intrusive thoughts, repeated checking, washing, counting, or a pull toward symmetry and a just right feeling. Private mental rituals and avoidance are common, and hours can vanish into routines you know are excessive yet cannot stop.
We start with a one hour clinical interview in which your psychologist follows the obsessions and compulsions from their start, through the ways they have shifted, to the time and distress they now demand, taking in what caregivers and teachers observe when the client is a child or teen. What comes to light here settles the choice of OCD specific measures likely to give the sharpest picture.
Your psychologist assembles a battery suited to you, setting a cognitive and executive function baseline beside structured OCD specific and emotional measures. Expect roughly 2 to 6 hours of in person testing spread over one or two days, with questionnaires also sent to you and, for younger clients, to the caregivers and teachers who see the patterns firsthand.
Every result and each clinical observation is drawn together into a detailed report. It lays out how the OCD presents and how severe it is, the specific obsessions and compulsions at play, and anything co occurring the evaluation surfaced, such as anxiety, depression, tics, or ADHD.
Two to three weeks on, more or less, you come back for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks through the findings and hands you individualized recommendations, including evidence based therapy such as exposure and response prevention (ERP), supports for school or work, and clear next steps built around you.
No, at no point. Getting seen at Core Spring Diagnostics simply does not hinge on a referral. You are welcome to contact us directly, for whatever reason there might be, and any coordination with your other providers happens only when that is what you want.
It brings together a clinical interview and full history, a cognitive and executive function baseline, structured OCD specific measures, and a screen for co occurring conditions like anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD. One psychologist steers the entire evaluation and then walks you through what it all means.
OCD hinges on unwanted, intrusive obsessions and the compulsions people use to quiet them, and those grow consuming and distressing. A formal evaluation pulls real OCD apart from a naturally orderly streak, a careful nature, or everyday anxiety, and points clearly toward what will actually help.
Yes. Children, teens, and adults are all assessed here, with the process and the questions dialed to each stage of life and with caregiver and teacher input drawn in for our younger clients.
Anxiety, depression, tics or Tourette’s, and ADHD frequently overlap with OCD. A screen for these belongs to every evaluation, so the recommendations you receive address the full picture rather than one slice of it.
Ring Core Spring Diagnostics at (414) 387-2100 or send a consultation request through our website. Nothing needs to refer you in, and we will help you map out the right evaluation path for your concerns.
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