Perhaps your relationships follow the same painful script no matter who you are with, close one week and falling apart the next. Perhaps you carry a fear of being abandoned, or a self image that never quite settles. Personality Disorder Assessments in Wauwatosa, WI at Core Spring Diagnostics offer a thoughtful way to understand the patterns that keep returning, without reducing you to a diagnosis. No referral is needed to get started.
A single licensed psychologist carries the assessment from beginning to end, drawing on a detailed clinical interview and personality measures set against a baseline of cognitive and executive function. That baseline is the starting point, not the destination; from there the assessment turns fully toward your specific concerns, and it screens thoughtfully for cooccurring conditions, since emotional patterns this persistent rarely have just one root.
For younger children we are not looking toward a personality disorder diagnosis, which belongs to adulthood. We pay attention instead to strong emotions, difficulty holding friendships or handling change, and early patterns that deserve understanding, always presented as support and never a label fixed to your child.
In an older teen you might see emotions that flare and crash, an identity still finding its shape, relationships that lurch between intense and distant, impulsive behavior, or a hard time coming back down from distress. The focus stays on understanding these patterns, with diagnosis handled carefully given their age.
You may recognize conflict that repeats across every relationship, a self image that will not hold still, sudden emotional highs and lows, an ache of fear when abandonment feels near, or impulsive choices. Many adults arrive after years of explanations that only ever went halfway.
The assessment begins with roughly an hour of talking, as your psychologist builds a careful history of your emotional world from your earliest years to your present days. This is where you map the recurring patterns, the things that set them off, and how they shape your work and relationships, so the measures selected next are the right ones for you.
Guided by that first conversation, your psychologist puts together a personality and emotional functioning battery tailored to you. Testing generally takes 2 to 6 hours over one to two days. Self report questionnaires go home with you, a close friend or partner can fill out their own if you both agree, and any hints of additional conditions are screened for as the work unfolds.
All of the testing data, the clinical observations, and the questionnaire responses come together in one thorough report. Whatever cooccurring conditions the assessment reveals are documented clearly, so what you leave with is a full and truthful account of what is really behind the patterns you have been living with.
Usually within two to three weeks you come back for feedback. Your psychologist talks you through everything the assessment found and lays out individualized recommendations: coping strategies for daily life, therapy options grounded in evidence, information to bring to a prescriber where it applies, and next steps built around your particular situation.
Not at all. You never require a referral to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. Reach out to us directly whenever you are ready, and we will loop in your therapist or another provider only if you specifically ask us to.
A detailed clinical interview and personality measures anchored in a baseline of cognitive and executive function, together with careful screening for mood, anxiety, trauma, and attention concerns. One psychologist runs the entire assessment and then sits down to explain the findings with you.
No. Understanding is what we are after. A diagnosis, when one truly applies, is only a slice of the fuller picture, and what really matters is the clear, individualized guidance and the route toward support that is most likely to make a difference for you.
As a rule, no. In children and younger teens we concentrate on understanding their emotional and relational patterns and what actually helps, rather than reaching for a diagnosis meant for adulthood.
A report written in plain language and a feedback session filled with practical recommendations, including therapy approaches and supports tied directly to what your assessment brought to light.
Give us a call at (414) 387 2100 and we will find a time together. You do not need a referral in hand, just a simple call to begin the conversation.
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