You have wondered for a while now whether the word for you is organized, or careful, or a perfectionist, or whether it is something with a different name. Maybe you keep things a certain way and always have, and lately the keeping has started to cost you time and peace. Maybe your child cannot settle until an object sits exactly right, or asks the same question again and again for the reassurance that never quite holds. Maybe the checking, the counting, or the intrusive thoughts you would never act on have quietly taken up more of your day than you want to admit. You do not need a label pinned on you; you want to finally know which of these it actually is. An OCD evaluation in Pewaukee with Core Spring Diagnostics is an in-depth, individualized assessment that sorts a demanding standard from a genuine disorder and shows you what helps. You can contact us yourself, and no referral is needed.
We open every evaluation with a baseline of cognitive and executive function, then shape the rest of it around the specific obsessions and compulsions you describe, with a single licensed psychologist carrying the work from your first phone call through the feedback session. That psychologist draws on structured, OCD specific measures and also screens for the conditions that so commonly ride alongside OCD, among them anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD.
Rituals that must follow a fixed order or repeat until they feel correct, hand washing taken to an extreme or an outsized fear of germs, a steady need for reassurance, genuine upset when a routine gets broken, objects lined up or arranged with care, and worries that loom far larger than whatever set them off.
Rituals so lengthy they cut into sleep and schoolwork, intrusive thoughts that are frequently distressing, hidden mental compulsions such as counting or silently going back over things, steering clear of anything that triggers the pattern, repeated reassurance seeking, and a layer of shame or secrecy around behaviors they cannot manage to stop.
Intrusive thoughts that will not let up, checking, washing, counting, urges toward symmetry or a just right feeling, private mental rituals, avoidance, and stretches of time surrendered to routines you recognize as excessive yet feel powerless to skip.
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 surfaced, how they have shifted over time, and how much of your day and how much distress they now claim. What surfaces in that conversation guides which OCD specific measures will bring the sharpest picture into focus.
Your psychologist assembles a battery tailored to 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 visits. Questionnaires go home with you as well, and for children and teens they also reach the caregivers and teachers who watch these patterns play out from one day to the next.
Every piece of testing data and each clinical observation is drawn together into a thorough report that describes the character and severity of the OCD, the particular obsessions and compulsions at work, and any co-occurring conditions that came to light during the evaluation, such as anxiety, depression, tics, or ADHD.
Usually two to three weeks after testing, you come back for a feedback session. Your psychologist talks you through the findings and offers recommendations shaped around you, including evidence based therapy such as exposure and response prevention, supports for school or the workplace, and clear next steps you can begin to take.
No. A referral is never required to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You are welcome to contact us yourself, for any reason at all, and we coordinate with your other providers only when you would like us to.
A clinical interview and full 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 runs the entire evaluation and walks you through what the findings mean.
OCD centers on unwanted, intrusive obsessions and the compulsions people lean on to ease them, and both grow time consuming and distressing. A formal evaluation separates genuine OCD from ordinary habits, from perfectionism, and from everyday anxiety, and it clarifies what will truly make a difference.
Yes. We evaluate children, teens, and adults, adjusting the process and the questions to fit each stage of life, and we fold in input from caregivers and teachers for our younger clients.
OCD often shows up alongside anxiety, depression, tics or Tourette’s, and ADHD. Because screening for co-occurring conditions is woven into every evaluation, the recommendations you receive speak to the full picture rather than one slice 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.
To get started, call Core Spring Diagnostics at (414) 387-2100 or send a consultation request through our website. No referral is needed, and we will help you chart the evaluation path that fits your concerns.
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