Maybe trust has always felt just out of reach, and closeness comes tangled with the fear of being let down. Maybe you watch your teen keep everyone at a distance and wonder what is underneath it. A Complex PTSD Evaluation in Waunakee, WI helps make sense of how a long history of hurt shaped the way you connect. You never need a referral to start.
Every evaluation starts with a read of how you concentrate, plan, and manage stress, then adds trauma focused and emotional measures built around what you have lived. A single licensed psychologist handles the whole thing, keeping the pace gentle and watching for the concerns that so often accompany complex trauma.
With children, the work moves carefully, aiming to understand how ongoing adversity has affected them rather than reaching for a quick label. Attention goes to what restores a sense of safety and connection, and to where trust and security have taken a hit.
In teens, notice trouble managing intense feelings, a self image that swings between harsh and unsteady, and a guardedness that keeps others at bay. Behavior that seems baffling from the outside usually fits, once their history comes into view.
In adults, it often looks like difficulty trusting and staying close, emotions that arrive at full volume, and a steady undercurrent of shame or feeling unworthy. That chronic sense of being unsafe can quietly shape friendships, partnerships, and work.
We begin with roughly an hour of conversation, where your psychologist builds a thorough personal history inside a supportive, unpressured space. Since complex trauma tends to come from experiences that stretched over time, this reaches across a broad timeline to understand how those years affected your emotions, your relationships, and your sense of self. Nothing moves faster than you allow.
Next your psychologist chooses a set of assessments suited to the layered nature of complex trauma. Testing generally takes 2 to 6 hours over one or two days, with self report questionnaires to complete at home; someone close to you may fill out their own if they wish. Any signs of anxiety, depression, dissociation, or ADHD are screened for too.
Every result, observation, and questionnaire is drawn together into a detailed diagnostic report. Your psychologist examines how complex trauma has shaped emotion regulation, identity, connection, and cognition, recording any co occurring conditions so nothing important is left out.
About two to three weeks on, you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist talks you through the diagnosis and offers recommendations tailored to you: specialized trauma therapy, strategies for steadying emotion, support for relationships, and clear steps forward on your own terms.
No. You never need a referral to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. Reach out on your own, whenever the time feels right.
Complex PTSD is generally tied to prolonged or repeated trauma and affects self image, emotions, and relationships more broadly, whereas PTSD often follows one specific event. The evaluation sorts out which fits your experience.
A gentle interview, a baseline of cognitive and executive function, trauma focused and emotional measures, and screening for related concerns, all guided by one psychologist at a pace that honors your story.
Yes. Teens and adults are both welcome, and with younger clients we handle trauma related patterns with extra care.
A report you can actually read and a sit down feedback session, with tailored, trauma informed recommendations and a defined path ahead.
Phone our Madison office at (608) 396 4830 and we will arrange a time that suits you. No referral is needed beforehand.
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