Maybe a voice in the back of your mind still insists you are too much, or never quite enough, no matter what you accomplish. Maybe years that stayed hard left a mark on how you trust and how you feel. Complex PTSD Evaluations in Oregon, WI help you understand where that came from, with care and without judgment. No referral is needed to begin.
Each evaluation opens with a baseline of your cognitive and executive function, the foundation we build from, then layers in trauma focused and emotional measures chosen for your story. One licensed psychologist stays with the whole process, moving at a pace your history has earned, and screens for the concerns that often travel alongside complex trauma.
In younger children, we look gently at how ongoing stress or instability is showing up, in sleep, mood, or how safe they feel, rather than hurrying toward a label. The goal is to understand what settles them and what still feels out of reach.
A teen carrying complex trauma may swing between emotional extremes, speak about themselves with surprising harshness, and keep others at arm’s length. Their guardedness usually makes sense once you know what they have lived through, and that context guides the whole evaluation.
For adults, it can look like a steady undercurrent of shame or worthlessness, feelings that run hot or shut down entirely, and relationships that feel hard to trust. Many describe never quite feeling safe, with the effects spilling into work, home, and health.
We begin with about an hour of unhurried conversation, where your psychologist gathers a full personal history in a setting built to feel safe. Because complex PTSD grows out of experiences that repeated or lasted, this talk reaches across a longer timeline to see how they shaped your emotions, your relationships, and your sense of who you are. You set the pace throughout.
From there, your psychologist assembles a battery chosen for the layered effects of complex trauma, typically 2 to 6 hours of in person work spread across one to two days. You will take home self report questionnaires, and someone close to you is welcome to complete their own. Any signs of related conditions, such as anxiety, depression, dissociation, or ADHD, are screened for as they surface.
Your psychologist gathers the testing data, clinical observations, and questionnaire results into one detailed diagnostic report. It examines how complex trauma has touched your emotional regulation, identity, relationships, and thinking, and documents any co occurring conditions so the clinical picture is complete.
Roughly two to three weeks later, you come back for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks you through the findings in plain language and offers individualized recommendations, from specialized trauma therapy to emotional regulation strategies and relationship support, each tied to your own path toward healing.
No. A referral is never required to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You are welcome to reach out on your own, for any reason at all.
Complex PTSD usually follows trauma that was prolonged or repeated, and it tends to reach into self image, emotion regulation, and relationships more widely. PTSD more often traces back to a single event. The evaluation helps clarify which fits your experience.
You can expect a 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 see both teens and adults, and with younger clients we handle trauma related patterns slowly and gently, keeping their sense of safety first.
A report written in plain language and a feedback session, along with individualized, trauma informed recommendations and a clear sense of the next steps toward healing.
Call our Madison office at (608) 396 4830 and we will help you find a time. There is no referral to chase down first; you can simply reach out.
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