Maybe you hold everything together on the outside while your thoughts churn underneath, or your child aces the test and then cannot stop replaying the one question they missed. Anxiety does not always look like anxiety. Our Anxiety Evaluations in Waunakee, WI look past the composed surface to what is really going on, and no referral is needed to begin.
We start where every Core Spring evaluation starts, with a baseline of cognitive and executive function, and build outward from there with anxiety and emotional measures selected for you. The same licensed psychologist guides you the entire way and keeps an eye out for the related concerns anxiety tends to hide behind, so the result reflects the whole of it.
In children, high functioning anxiety can wear the mask of the good kid: the one who never wants to disappoint, who redoes homework until it is perfect, who melts down only once the door is closed at home. Watch for stomachaches, sleep trouble, and outsized reactions to small setbacks.
Teens may look capable and even thrive, while privately running on worry, social self consciousness, and a merciless inner critic. Irritability, tight muscles, and trouble focusing can surface, especially as the effort of appearing okay wears thin over a long day.
Adults often describe competence and dread in the same breath: on top of the to do list, yet unable to relax, sleep well, or quiet the mental play by play. The tension settles in the body, and the mind stays braced for a problem that may never arrive.
We open with about an hour of unrushed conversation, your psychologist building a careful history of your emotional world from childhood forward. Naming the triggers and the toll of your anxiety here is what allows the right assessments to be chosen rather than guessed at.
Guided by that history, your psychologist puts together a testing battery tuned to your concerns, generally 2 to 6 hours of in person work across one or two days. You take home self report questionnaires, and a close family member or friend can complete one too. Should indicators of ADHD, depression, or trauma appear, they are screened for as part of the process.
Test results, clinical observations, and questionnaire responses are synthesized into a thorough diagnostic report. Co occurring conditions uncovered along the way are spelled out plainly, leaving you with a full and honest account of what sits behind the symptoms.
Usually within two to three weeks, you come back for feedback. Your psychologist talks you through the findings and lays out recommendations made for you: coping tools for home and work, evidence based therapy options like CBT, medication guidance if it applies, and clear next steps.
No. You do not need a referral to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. Contact us on your own, for whatever reason brings you here.
Because anxiety so commonly arrives alongside other concerns, we find it is best understood within a fuller picture. We tailor the evaluation to you and screen widely so nothing meaningful is overlooked.
One psychologist conducts a clinical interview, establishes a cognitive and executive functioning baseline, administers anxiety and emotional measures, and screens for connected concerns such as attention, mood, and trauma.
Yes. Children, teens, and adults are all welcome, and both the questions and the pace are adapted to each person’s stage of life.
A report written in plain language and a feedback session full of individualized recommendations, including the therapy and support most likely to make a difference.
Reach our Madison office at (608) 396 4830 and we will find a time that works. No referral needs to come first, so feel free to call whenever you are ready.
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