Maybe your emotions arrive like weather, sudden and hard to steer, and the calm never lasts long enough. Maybe you watch your child flood and crash and wish you knew how to help. A Complex PTSD Evaluation in DeForest, WI helps explain why feelings run so intense and where that pattern took root. Getting started never requires a referral.
Every evaluation begins by looking at how you focus, plan, and cope under stress, then adds trauma focused and emotional measures shaped to your particular history. A single licensed psychologist guides the whole process, keeping things gentle and screening for the conditions that so often accompany complex trauma.
In children, the work centers on understanding how ongoing stress or adversity has affected them, without rushing to a label. It pays attention to what helps a child feel safe and regulated, and to the moments when big feelings become hard to settle.
In teens, look for emotions that swing to extremes, a shaky or self critical sense of identity, and trouble trusting or feeling close. Reactions that seem out of proportion tend to make sense in light of what they have been through
In adults, emotions can hit at full force and prove hard to bring down, alongside a fragile sense of self, guarded relationships, and a lingering sense of not being safe. Shame often runs beneath it, and the effects spread across many corners of life.
Your evaluation begins with a conversation of roughly an hour, where your psychologist assembles a careful personal history in a calm, supportive space. Since complex trauma generally arises from experiences that carried on for a while, this covers a broad timeline to understand how those years shaped your emotions, relationships, and sense of self. The pace is yours to set.
Your psychologist then selects a battery tuned to the layered effects of complex trauma. Testing usually lasts 2 to 6 hours across one or two days, with self report questionnaires to finish at home; someone close to you can complete their own if they wish. Signs of anxiety, depression, dissociation, or ADHD are screened for along the way.
Every piece of data, each observation, and all questionnaire results are gathered into a detailed diagnostic report. Your psychologist weighs how complex trauma has touched emotion regulation, identity, relationships, and thinking, and records any co occurring conditions in full.
Roughly two to three weeks afterward, you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks you through the diagnosis and shares recommendations shaped for you: specialized trauma therapy suited to you, ways to manage emotions that flood, resources that support connection, and a clear direction for what comes next.
No. You are never required to have a referral to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. Reach out directly, for whatever reason brings you here.
Complex PTSD usually connects to prolonged or repeated trauma and affects self image, emotion regulation, and relationships broadly, while PTSD often traces back to one event. The evaluation makes clear which fits you.
A gentle, trauma informed interview, a cognitive and executive function baseline, trauma focused and emotional measures, and screening for related concerns, all led by one psychologist at a pace that respects you.
Yes. We evaluate both teens and adults, and with children we treat trauma related patterns with particular patience.
A written report in everyday language and a feedback session offering individualized recommendations, trauma informed throughout, and a clear way forward.
Ring our Madison office at (608) 396 4830 and we will hold a slot that fits your schedule. No referral is needed ahead of time.
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