Some of the hardest OCD to name is the kind no one sees: the intrusive thought that horrifies you, the silent bargain to undo it. Maybe that is you, or maybe your teen has gone quiet around behaviors they cannot stop. An OCD Testing in Waunakee, WI with Core Spring Diagnostics is a careful, individualized assessment that makes sense of it without judgment, and no referral is required.
Each evaluation begins by establishing a baseline of cognitive and executive function, and from there it is built around the particular obsessions and compulsions you bring through the door. One licensed psychologist handles everything from intake through feedback, drawing on structured OCD specific measures and screening for the conditions that so often accompany OCD, including anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD.
In younger children, OCD can look like rituals that must be done just so or repeated until they feel right, washing driven by a fear of germs, or an endless need to be reassured. Interrupting a routine can spark genuine distress, and worries may loom far larger than whatever set them off.
For teens, much of the struggle happens out of sight. Rituals eat into homework and sleep, intrusive and distressing thoughts intrude without warning, and mental compulsions like counting or reviewing run silently. You may also notice trigger avoidance, reassurance seeking, and real shame about what they cannot control.
In adults, OCD often shows up as persistent intrusive thoughts followed by checking, washing, counting, or a pull toward symmetry and getting things just right. Private mental rituals can consume long stretches of the day, all around routines you recognize as excessive yet feel powerless to stop.
We open with a clinical interview and a complete history, your psychologist making room for the obsessions and compulsions that are hardest to say aloud and tracing how they began. For a child or teen, caregivers and teachers contribute their observations so the account covers more than what is spoken in the room.
Your psychologist then assembles a personalized battery, pairing a cognitive and executive function baseline with structured OCD specific and emotional measures. Expect two to six hours of in person testing over one or two days, along with questionnaires for you and, when a child or teen is involved, for the caregivers and teachers around them.
The findings are compiled into a comprehensive written report that describes the obsessions and compulsions in play and names any co occurring conditions identified during the process, gathered into one place you can return to.
Around two to three weeks afterward, you sit down for a feedback session. Your psychologist explains the findings without judgment and offers individualized recommendations, exposure and response prevention (ERP) included, plus accommodations for school or work.
No, no referral of any kind is required. Reach out to Core Spring Diagnostics directly whenever you are ready, and we will coordinate with your other providers only at your request.
You can expect an interview and full history, a cognitive and executive baseline, structured OCD specific measures, and screening for related conditions. The same psychologist conducts all of it and reviews the results with you afterward.
Tidiness and anxiety on their own rarely demand rituals. OCD involves unwanted, intrusive obsessions and the compulsions people lean on to relieve them, and both become time consuming and distressing. A formal evaluation separates one from the other.
Yes. Children, teens, and adults are all welcome, and we shape the process and questions to each developmental stage, gathering caregiver and teacher input when we work with younger clients.
Anxiety, depression, tics or Tourette’s, and ADHD often come with OCD. Because screening for them is part of every evaluation, the recommendations can speak to the whole picture instead of a single symptom.
Call Core Spring Diagnostics at (608) 396 4830 or submit a consultation request on the website. There is no referral to chase, and we will help you outline the evaluation path that fits your concerns.
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