Maybe you have carried the belief that it was somehow your fault, or that what you went through was not bad enough to matter. When hard things repeated over months or years, they leave a mark on how you see yourself and who you trust. A Complex PTSD evaluation in Fitchburg, WI gives you a place to name it and understand it with care, and no referral is needed to reach out.
Every evaluation is built on a baseline of cognitive and executive function, the groundwork that supports everything that follows. Your psychologist then adds trauma focused and emotional measures fitted to your history, and one licensed psychologist carries the whole process rather than handing you off. Because complex trauma rarely arrives by itself, related concerns are screened for along the way.
For young children, we lead with understanding rather than a rush to diagnose. Attention goes to how ongoing stress or adversity is shaping a child, and to identifying the relationships, routines, and safe spaces that already help them feel more grounded and secure.
In teens, signs can include emotions that swing hard, a self image that turns critical or unstable, and difficulty trusting or feeling connected. Responses that look extreme from the outside tend to make sense the moment you understand what a teen has been through.
For adults, it often appears as a persistent sense of shame or not being enough, emotions that resist steadying, and trust that feels risky. Feeling unsafe even when nothing is wrong is common, and the effects reach into relationships, work, and the ordinary shape of a day.
We open with a calm, roughly hour long conversation in which your psychologist gathers the whole history, from early development to how you are managing day to day now. A broad evaluation relies on that full context, and it sets the shape of the testing to come.
Your psychologist then selects measures reaching across reasoning, executive function, memory, attention, emotional functioning, and adaptive skills. Testing typically runs 2 to 6 hours over one or two days, and an in house learning specialist adds focused assessments when learning differences are present. Questionnaires come home with you, and people who know you well can contribute their own.
Data from every area, thinking, emotional, academic, and adaptive, is brought together into one thorough diagnostic report. As the most complete evaluation Core Spring provides, it is built to capture the entire range of what may be present, whether ADHD, autism, a learning disability, a mood condition, or a combination.
Roughly two to three weeks later you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist talks through each finding in plain language and lays out individualized recommendations, therapy options, school or workplace accommodations, everyday strategies, and a clear path ahead.
No. A referral is never needed at Core Spring Diagnostics. You can reach out to us yourself, for any reason.
It brings our testing for autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression, mood, behavior, and learning together on a reasoning and executive function baseline, all conducted by one psychologist who screens for overlapping conditions throughout.
No. It is a behavioral and emotional evaluation that examines how attention, mood, learning, and behavior interact, the all in one form of our assessments and not a neurological workup.
Children, teens, and adults whose concerns stretch across several areas, where a single narrow assessment has never captured everything.
One integrated, readable report and a feedback session with individualized recommendations for each area we evaluated.
Phone our Madison office at (608) 396 4830 and we will arrange a time. No referral is ever required to schedule.
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