Maybe your shoulders stay up around your ears, or a slammed door drops your stomach before you can think. Something happened, and your body never got the message that it is over. PTSD Evaluations in Monona, WI give you a careful, unhurried look at what your nervous system is holding, and you never need a referral to begin.
Every evaluation opens with a baseline of how you think, focus, and organize, then layers in trauma focused and emotional measures built around your story. The same licensed psychologist stays with you from that first baseline through the final conversation, and because a wound up nervous system rarely travels alone, we screen for the anxiety, low mood, or attention strain that so often ride along with it.
A younger child may replay the scary moment in play, wake from nightmares, or suddenly cling when you leave the room. You might notice new fears, a shorter fuse, restless sleep, or trouble settling into focus at school. Reminders of what happened tend to get avoided.
For teens, it can look like being wired and irritable, snapping at small things, then going flat and far away. Intrusive memories crowd in, sleep suffers, and concentration slips. Many quietly steer around the people, places, or apps that pull the memory back up.
As an adult, you may live braced: scanning rooms, startling at ordinary sounds, sleeping badly, and feeling on edge long after the danger passed. Flashbacks or intrusive memories surface uninvited, and you find yourself avoiding whatever might trigger them, even when it costs you.
We begin with an hour long conversation where your psychologist gathers your history in a setting built to feel safe. You share only what you are ready to share, and that conversation shapes which trauma specific measures make sense for you. You set the pace here, and it holds for everything that follows.
From there your psychologist assembles a battery matched to your concerns. In person testing typically runs 2 to 6 hours across one or two days, and you head home with self report questionnaires; someone close to you may complete their own if you both want that. Signs of anxiety, depression, or ADHD are screened for as they surface, since trauma rarely arrives alone.
Your psychologist pulls every piece, the testing data, the clinical observations, the questionnaires, into one detailed report. It lays out how trauma has touched your thinking, your emotions, and your day to day functioning, and it documents any co occurring conditions so nothing quietly slips past.
Typically two to three weeks later you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks you through the findings in plain language and hands you a real plan: evidence based trauma therapies such as EMDR or CPT, coping strategies, guidance on medication questions if they apply, and next steps shaped around your recovery.
No. A referral is never required to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You can contact us directly, on your own, for any reason at all.
A trauma informed interview, a baseline of your thinking and focus, trauma specific and emotional measures, and screening for related concerns, all handled by one psychologist at a pace set by you.
PTSD usually traces back to a specific event or a defined set of events, while CPTSD tends to grow out of prolonged or repeated trauma and can reshape how you see yourself and relate to others. The evaluation sorts out which picture fits you.
Yes. We work with children, teens, and adults, adjusting the process for each age and for whatever helps someone feel safe.
You leave with a plain language report and a feedback session full of individualized, trauma informed recommendations, plus a clear sense of where healing goes from here.
Call our Madison office at (608) 396 4830 and we will find a time that works. There is no referral to chase down first.
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