It may be that the same hurts keep surfacing in your closest relationships, and no effort breaks the cycle. It may be that your moods turn on a dime, or you have never felt sure who you really are underneath. Personality Disorder Assessments in Elm Grove, WI at Core Spring Diagnostics are a considered way to make sense of the emotional and relational patterns you keep living out, rather than a rush to name something. You are welcome to reach out with no referral at all.
One licensed psychologist conducts your assessment from start to finish, combining a searching clinical interview with personality measures that sit on a baseline of cognitive and executive function. We treat that baseline as the ground floor, then shape the rest of the work around the patterns that matter most to you, screening deliberately for the conditions that so often accompany them, because struggles like these seldom come down to a single explanation.
With younger children our attention is not on a personality disorder diagnosis, which is reserved for later life. We watch instead for intense feelings, struggles with relationships and change, and early patterns worth understanding sooner rather than later, always held as support and never pinned on your child as a fixed identity.
An older teen may present with emotions that spike and drop sharply, a sense of self still in flux, relationships full of storm and calm, impulsive actions, or ongoing trouble steadying themselves after distress. We center the work on understanding these patterns, treating any diagnosis with real caution at this stage.
You might see the same conflicts play out in relationship after relationship, a self image that keeps slipping, waves of intense emotion, a sharp fear of being abandoned, or impulsive decisions. Plenty of adults reach us only after years of explanations that never told the whole story.
Your assessment starts with about an hour of conversation, during which your psychologist gathers a careful history of your emotional experiences reaching from childhood into your life today. This is the moment to name the patterns that repeat, what tends to trigger them, and how they weigh on your relationships and work, so the assessments chosen afterward truly fit you.
Drawing on that first conversation, your psychologist selects a personality and emotional functioning battery designed around your needs. Testing typically spans 2 to 6 hours over one to two days. You will bring home self report questionnaires, someone close to you may complete their own if you both wish, and any indications of other conditions are screened for as the process moves along.
The testing results, the clinical observations, and the questionnaire findings are woven into a single detailed report. Any co occurring conditions the assessment surfaces are set down clearly, so you walk away with a full, straightforward understanding of what is genuinely driving the patterns that brought you in.
Generally two to three weeks on, you return for your feedback session. Your psychologist guides you through the findings and offers individualized recommendations: practical coping strategies, therapy options rooted in evidence, guidance you can carry to a prescriber if it fits, and next steps tailored to where you are in life.
No, you do not. A referral is never a requirement at Core Spring Diagnostics. You are free to contact us directly for any reason, and we will coordinate with your therapist or provider only when you would like us to.
A searching clinical interview and personality measures built on a baseline of cognitive and executive function, paired with careful screening for mood, anxiety, trauma, and attention concerns. A single psychologist carries out the whole assessment and then walks you through what it means.
No. What we are working toward is understanding. A diagnosis, if one honestly fits, is just one component of a wider picture, and the true worth lies in clear, individualized recommendations and a direction toward the support most apt to help you.
Ordinarily no. For children and younger teens we focus on understanding their emotional and relational patterns and what helps them, instead of applying a diagnosis intended for adulthood.
A report in plain, readable language and a feedback session rich with practical recommendations, including therapy approaches and supports matched precisely to what your assessment found.
Phone us at (414) 387-2100 and we will settle on a time that suits you. No referral needs to come first, simply a direct call to get things underway.
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