Maybe closeness feels risky, or you pull away just as someone gets near, even when part of you longs to be understood. When trauma repeats over time, it can teach you that trust is dangerous and reshape how you feel about yourself. A Complex PTSD evaluation in Verona, WI helps you understand those relationship patterns with warmth and clarity, and you do not need a referral to begin.
Each evaluation opens with a baseline of cognitive and executive function that steadies everything else we do. Your psychologist then folds in trauma focused and emotional measures selected for your particular history, and a single licensed psychologist stays present from start to finish. Because complex trauma so often travels with other concerns, we screen for those as a standard part of the process.
In young children, the priority is understanding over labeling. We look at how continued stress or adversity is affecting a child, and we search out the relationships, routines, and reassuring places that already help them feel safer and more settled day to day.
For teens, the picture can involve emotions that reach extremes, a harsh or wavering sense of identity, and a real struggle to trust or grow close. Reactions that appear disproportionate usually make sense once the experiences behind them come into focus.
In adults, it frequently looks like an enduring sense of shame or inadequacy, emotions that are hard to regulate, and difficulty trusting or staying connected. A chronic feeling of being unsafe is common, and its reach extends across relationships, work, and everyday living.
Your evaluation begins with roughly an hour of conversation, where your psychologist gathers a thorough personal history in a safe, welcoming space. Because Complex PTSD usually develops from experiences that repeated over time, this talk spans a wider timeline, examining how those years shaped your emotions, your relationships, and your sense of self. The pace stays yours.
Your psychologist then selects a tailored battery of assessments designed to reveal the layered effects of complex trauma. In person testing usually takes 2 to 6 hours over one to two days, and you head home with self report questionnaires, with the option for a close person to complete their own. If anxiety, depression, dissociation, or ADHD emerge, those areas are screened as well.
Every element, the test data, clinical observations, and questionnaire results, is brought together into a detailed diagnostic report. Your psychologist studies how complex trauma has influenced emotional regulation, identity, relationships, and cognition, and fully documents any co occurring conditions so nothing is missed.
Roughly two to three weeks later, you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist guides you through the diagnosis in clear language and offers recommendations built for you, including specialized trauma therapy, ways to steady your emotions, resources for your relationships, and the next steps suited to your healing.
No, you do not need a referral to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. Reaching out on your own is always welcome, whatever brings you in.
Complex PTSD generally stems from prolonged or repeated trauma and shapes self image, emotion regulation, and relationships more broadly, whereas PTSD often follows a single event. The evaluation works to clarify which one describes you.
A trauma informed interview, a cognitive and executive function baseline, trauma focused and emotional measures, and screening for related concerns, all delivered by one psychologist at a pace that respects your experience.
Yes, both teens and adults are welcome, and with younger clients we approach trauma related patterns with particular gentleness and care.
A plain language report and a feedback session offering individualized, trauma informed recommendations, together with a clear path toward healing.
Call our Madison office at (608) 396 4830 to arrange a time. There is no referral to obtain first; you can simply get in touch whenever you are ready.
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