Sometimes the thoughts that scare you most are the ones that feel like the opposite of who you are. A frightening image of hurting someone you love. A sudden doubt about a relationship you know is good. Thoughts so out of character that having them at all fills you with shame, even though you would never act on them and they never reflect what you actually want. That is often how OCD works, turning your own values against you. Maybe it looks different for you: hours of checking, silent counting, or a child who cannot settle until things feel exactly right. Whatever led you here, you deserve clarity instead of alarm. An OCD evaluation in Menomonee Falls with Core Spring Diagnostics is a thorough, individualized assessment that puts language to what is happening and points toward what genuinely helps. You can contact us directly, and no referral is needed.
The process opens with a baseline picture of your cognitive and executive functioning, then bends around the exact obsessions and compulsions you describe, all guided by a single licensed psychologist who stays with you from the opening conversation through the final feedback session. We rely on structured measures made specifically for OCD, and we look carefully for the conditions that so commonly ride alongside it, such as anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD.
Routines that must be performed in a particular order or repeated until they feel right, scrubbing hands raw or an outsized fear of germs, a constant need for reassurance, genuine upset when a routine gets disrupted, arranging or lining up belongings, and worries that loom far larger than whatever prompted them.
Rituals that swallow up time meant for homework and sleep, unwanted and often upsetting thoughts, mental compulsions such as counting or replaying things silently, steering clear of triggers, repeated requests for reassurance, and secrecy or embarrassment about actions they cannot seem to stop.
Intrusive thoughts that will not quiet down, checking, washing, counting, urges toward symmetry or a just right feeling, hidden mental rituals, avoidance, and stretches of time surrendered to routines you recognize as excessive yet cannot seem to resist.
Your evaluation opens with an interview of about an hour, during which your psychologist builds a detailed history of the obsessions and compulsions: when they first appeared, how they have shifted over time, and how much time and distress they demand. What comes out of that conversation shapes which OCD specific measures will show the situation most clearly.
Your psychologist assembles a battery built around you, joining a cognitive and executive function baseline with structured OCD specific and emotional measures. In person testing usually runs two to six hours across one or two days. Questionnaires also come to you and, for children and teens, to the caregivers and teachers who witness the patterns firsthand.
Every piece of testing data and each clinical observation gets drawn together into a thorough report that describes the nature and severity of the OCD, the particular obsessions and compulsions at play, and any co-occurring conditions surfaced along the way, whether anxiety, depression, tics, or ADHD.
Roughly two to three weeks after testing wraps up, you come back for a feedback session. Your psychologist talks you through the findings and lays out recommendations built for you, including evidence based therapy such as exposure and response prevention, supports for school or work, and clear next steps you can begin taking.
No. A referral is never required to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You can reach out on your own, for whatever reason brings you, and we coordinate with your other providers only if that is something you want.
A clinical interview and complete history, a cognitive and executive function baseline, structured measures built specifically for OCD, and screening for co-occurring conditions such as anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD. One psychologist carries out the full evaluation and walks you through what it found.
OCD centers on unwanted, intrusive obsessions and the compulsions people use to ease them, and both grow time consuming and distressing. A formal evaluation separates genuine OCD from everyday habits, perfectionism, or general anxiety, and clarifies what will actually bring relief.
Yes. We evaluate children, teens, and adults, shaping the process and the questions to each stage of life, and gathering input from caregivers and teachers for our younger clients.
OCD often shows up alongside anxiety, depression, tics or Tourette’s, and ADHD. Screening for these co-occurring conditions is woven into every evaluation, so the recommendations speak to the whole picture rather than a single piece of it.
A written report in plain language and a feedback session with recommendations tailored to you, including evidence based therapy such as exposure and response prevention (ERP) along with other supports.
You can begin by calling Core Spring Diagnostics at (414) 387-2100 or by sending a consultation request through our website. No referral is needed, and we will help you chart the right evaluation path for your concerns.
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