Maybe your child cannot leave a room until the light switch feels right, or you are the adult who circles back to check the stove long after you have left the house. The loop steals time, and the relief it promises never stays. OCD Testing in New Berlin, WI with Core Spring Diagnostics is an in depth, individualized assessment that names what is happening and points to what helps. You can reach out directly, with no referral needed.
We begin every evaluation from a baseline of cognitive and executive function, then shape the rest of the assessment around the particular obsessions and compulsions you describe. One licensed psychologist carries the work from the opening conversation to the final feedback session, using structured, OCD specific measures and screening for the conditions that so often ride alongside it, including anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD.
A young child may insist on redoing tasks until they feel just right, wash their hands well past the point of clean, or ask for the same reassurance over and over. Watch for real distress when a routine is broken, a need to line things up precisely, and worries that swell far past the situation.
In teens, rituals often eat into homework and sleep, and much of the struggle stays hidden. Look for silent counting or mental reviewing, steady avoidance of triggers, repeated reassurance seeking, and a layer of shame about behaviors they want to stop but cannot.
Adults describe intrusive thoughts that will not quiet, plus checking, washing, counting, or a pull toward symmetry and just right sensations. Private mental rituals and avoidance are common, along with hours surrendered to routines you recognize as excessive yet feel powerless to skip.
An hour long clinical interview opens the process, with your psychologist charting the obsessions and compulsions in detail, when they surfaced, how they have moved, and how much time and distress they demand, and for children and teens we gather what caregivers and teachers report. Whatever comes out here settles which OCD specific measures will read the picture most clearly.
Your psychologist puts together a battery just for you, uniting a cognitive and executive function baseline with structured OCD specific and emotional measures. In person testing normally lands between 2 and 6 hours across one or two days, and questionnaires head home to you and, for younger clients, to the caregivers and teachers who see the patterns daily.
Every result and each clinical observation is folded into one detailed report. It lays out how severe the OCD is and in what form, the specific obsessions and compulsions at work, and any co occurring conditions the evaluation brings to light, such as anxiety, depression, tics, or ADHD.
Two to three weeks later, more or less, you return for a feedback session where your psychologist walks you through the findings and sets out individualized recommendations. These commonly include evidence based therapy such as exposure and response prevention (ERP), supports for school or work, and concrete next steps built around you.
You will not. A referral is not part of getting seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. Reach out on your own, for any reason there is, and we bring your other providers into the loop only when that is what you want.
It marries a clinical interview and full history to a cognitive and executive function baseline, structured OCD specific measures, and a screen for co-occurring conditions like anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD. One psychologist steers the whole evaluation and then talks you through what it found.
At its base, OCD is unwanted, intrusive obsessions and the compulsions people lean on to relieve them, and both grow consuming and distressing. A formal evaluation distinguishes real OCD from a tidy nature, perfectionism, or everyday anxiety, and it makes clear what will genuinely help.
Yes indeed. We evaluate children, teens, and adults, adjusting the process and the questions to each stage of life, and we collect input from caregivers and teachers whenever the client is younger.
OCD frequently sits next to anxiety, depression, tics or Tourette’s, and ADHD. Since a screen for those belongs to every evaluation, the recommendations you receive answer to the full picture rather than one part of it.
Ring Core Spring Diagnostics at (414) 387-2100 or file a consultation request on our website. No referral is needed, and we will help you plot the right evaluation path for your concerns.
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