Maybe the hard years never really ended in your body, and you still brace for the next blow even when the room is calm. Maybe closeness feels risky and your feelings swing from numb to flooded. A Complex PTSD Evaluation in Fox Point, WI helps you name what prolonged trauma left behind and what to do about it. No referral is needed to begin.
We open every Complex PTSD assessment with a baseline of cognitive and executive function, since trauma quietly reshapes attention, memory, and self control. From there the battery is built around your history, layering in trauma focused and emotional measures that fit your story. One licensed psychologist stays with you the whole way, and because complex trauma rarely travels alone, we screen for the conditions that tend to sit beside it.
In a child, we watch for how ongoing stress shows up rather than reaching for a quick label. That can look like a nervous system that stays on high alert, big swings between shutting down and melting down, and a hard time feeling safe with the adults meant to protect them.
A teen living with complex trauma may struggle to steady intense emotions, carry a harsh or shifting sense of who they are, and keep others at arm’s length even when they want closeness. Their reactions usually make sense once you understand what they have been through.
For adults, it often reads as a stubborn undercurrent of shame or not enoughness, feelings that arrive in extremes, and trust that never quite settles. Many describe feeling unsafe for no reason they can point to, with the effects bleeding into work, love, and daily life.
We start with about an hour of conversation where your psychologist gathers a full personal history in a setting built to feel safe. Because complex trauma grows out of experiences that repeated or stretched over time, this talk covers a wide timeline so we can see how it shaped your emotions, your relationships, and your sense of self. You set the pace throughout.
Your psychologist assembles a battery chosen to capture the layered effects of complex trauma, typically 2 to 6 hours of in person work spread over one to two days. You go home with self report questionnaires, and someone close to you may fill out their own if you like. If signs of anxiety, depression, dissociation, or ADHD surface, we screen those areas too.
All of the testing data, clinical observations, and questionnaire results come together in a detailed diagnostic report. Your psychologist looks at how complex trauma has touched emotional regulation, identity, relationships, and thinking, and documents any co occurring conditions so the clinical picture is complete rather than partial.
Usually two to three weeks later, you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks you through the findings and hands you individualized recommendations: specialized trauma therapy options, strategies for steadying emotions, relationship support, and clear next steps shaped around your own healing.
No. A referral is never required to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You can contact us directly, for any reason, and start the conversation on your own terms.
Complex PTSD usually grows from trauma that was prolonged or repeated, so it tends to reach into self image, emotion regulation, and relationships more broadly. PTSD more often follows one specific event. The evaluation helps clarify which picture actually fits you.
A trauma informed interview, a cognitive and executive function baseline, trauma focused and emotional measures, and screening for related concerns, all handled by one psychologist at a pace that respects your history.
Yes. We see teens as well as adults, and with younger clients we approach trauma related patterns gently, taking care not to rush toward a label before we understand the whole context.
A report written in plain language and a feedback session that lays out individualized, trauma informed recommendations and a clear direction for your healing.
Call us at (414) 387-2100 and we will help you find a time and answer any questions before you commit to anything.
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