Maybe the mornings are the hardest part, and it takes everything you have to get out of bed and face the day. Maybe your child has stopped lighting up at the things they used to love. A Depression Evaluation in Fox Point, WI gives you real answers about what is driving that heaviness, and you never need a referral to begin.
Each Depression Evaluation opens with a baseline of cognitive and executive function, so we understand how your thinking and focus are holding up before we look closer. From there the assessment is shaped around your specific mood concerns, and one licensed psychologist carries the whole process, from that first conversation to the final feedback, while screening for related conditions that often travel alongside low mood.
In younger children depression often shows up as irritability rather than obvious sadness. Watch for a child who has lost interest in play, whose sleep or appetite has shifted, who complains of stomachaches or headaches, or whose schoolwork has quietly slipped.
A teen who is struggling may pull back from friends and the activities that once mattered, run low on energy no matter how much they rest, and sound hopeless about the future. Irritability, changes in sleep and appetite, and falling grades often come with it.
For adults, it can be a low mood that simply will not lift, a loss of interest in things that used to bring joy, and constant fatigue. Sleep and appetite change, concentration frays, and the days start to feel like something you move through on autopilot.
Your evaluation starts with an hour long conversation where your psychologist gathers a full history, from early experiences through your present mood, energy, and daily routines. This is where we begin to tell depression apart from the conditions that can resemble it, and where we decide which assessments will give the clearest answers.
Your psychologist builds a testing battery around your specific concerns, 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 complete one of their own. If signs of anxiety, ADHD, or bipolar patterns surface, we screen those areas too.
Every piece of data, observation, and questionnaire result comes together in a detailed diagnostic report. Differential diagnosis sits at the center of it: your psychologist weighs whether what you are feeling is best explained by depression, another condition, or a mix, and documents anything co occurring.
Roughly two to three weeks later, you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks you through the findings and gives you individualized recommendations: therapy options grounded in evidence, lifestyle strategies, medication guidance where relevant, and next steps built around your situation.
No. A referral is never required to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You are welcome to reach out on your own, for any reason at all, and we will take it from there.
It brings together a clinical interview, a cognitive and executive function baseline, mood and emotional measures, and screening for related concerns like anxiety, trauma, and bipolar patterns, all handled by one psychologist.
A screening can raise a flag. A full evaluation explains what is genuinely happening, rules out the look alikes, and sends you home with recommendations specific enough to act on.
Yes. We evaluate children, teens, and adults, and we shape the process to fit each age and stage rather than running everyone through the same track.
A report written in plain language and a feedback session where your psychologist explains the diagnosis and lays out individualized recommendations and a clear path toward support.
Call us at (414) 387-2100 and we will help you find a time. No referral is needed, and you are welcome to ask any questions before you decide.
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