Maybe there is a voice that has told you for as long as you can remember that you are not enough, and you have half believed it. Maybe you sense your child turning that same harshness inward. A Complex PTSD Evaluation in McFarland, WI helps trace where that self doubt began and what it has to do with what you lived through. No referral is required to begin.
Each evaluation opens with a baseline of how you think, plan, and hold steady under pressure, then adds trauma focused and emotional measures fitted to your history. One licensed psychologist carries the entire process from start to finish, keeping the pace kind and screening for the conditions that frequently sit alongside complex trauma.
With children, the emphasis falls on understanding the mark left by ongoing stress or adversity, not on rushing to name it. The work looks for what helps a child feel safe and steady, and notices when a young sense of self has started to turn critical.
In teens, look for feelings that spike to extremes, a self image that can be brutal or unstable, and difficulty trusting enough to let anyone in. Reactions that seem outsized usually make sense once you understand the history behind them.
In adults, a persistent sense of worthlessness or shame often sits at the center, alongside emotions that overwhelm, strained trust, and a chronic feeling of being unsafe. Those effects rarely stay contained; they seep into work, relationships, and self worth.
Your evaluation starts with about an hour of talking, where your psychologist draws together a full personal history in a safe and supportive setting. Because complex trauma usually comes from experiences that lasted, this conversation ranges across a wide timeline to see how those years shaped your emotions, your relationships, and the way you regard yourself. You lead the pace.
Your psychologist then builds a battery suited to the layered effects of complex trauma. Testing typically spans 2 to 6 hours over one or two days, and you take home self report questionnaires; a close friend or family member may complete theirs if they choose. If anxiety, depression, dissociation, or ADHD appear, those areas are screened as well.
All the data, observations, and questionnaire results come together in a detailed diagnostic report. Your psychologist assesses how complex trauma has affected emotion regulation, identity, relationships, and cognitive functioning, and fully documents any co occurring conditions.
Around two to three weeks later, you come back for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks through the diagnosis and gives recommendations built for you: specialized trauma therapy options, tools for regulating emotion, relationship support, and next steps chosen for your healing.
No. A referral is never needed to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You can contact us directly, for any reason at all.
Complex PTSD usually stems from prolonged or repeated trauma and reaches into self image, emotion regulation, and relationships, while PTSD tends to follow a single event. The evaluation clarifies which describes you.
A caring, trauma informed interview, a cognitive and executive function baseline, trauma focused and emotional measures, and screening for related concerns, all with one psychologist at a respectful pace.
Yes. We see teens as well as adults, and for younger clients our approach to trauma stays especially gentle.
You leave with a plain language report and a feedback conversation that lays out personalized, trauma informed next steps for healing.
Reach our Madison office at (608) 396 4830 and we will set up a time together. There is no referral to secure first.
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