Maybe your mind keeps returning to something you already checked, or a thought you would never act on keeps demanding a response until you neutralize it. Maybe your child cannot let go of a routine until it feels exactly right. An OCD evaluation in Madison, WI with Core Spring Diagnostics is a thorough, individualized assessment that names the pattern and shows what actually helps. No referral is needed to reach out.
Every assessment opens with a baseline of your cognitive and executive functioning, then narrows to the specific obsessions and compulsions you describe. The same licensed psychologist stays with you from the first phone call through the final conversation, so nothing is handed off midway. We rely on structured, OCD specific measures and deliberately screen for the conditions that so often shadow OCD, among them anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD.
Rituals that must follow a fixed order or be repeated until they feel right, washing that leaves hands raw, and a constant hunt for reassurance. A small change to a routine can trigger real distress, and worries often balloon far beyond whatever set them off.
Rituals that quietly swallow homework time and sleep, intrusive thoughts that feel distressing and hard to admit, and silent mental compulsions like counting or replaying. Many teens avoid their triggers and keep the whole thing hidden out of shame.
Intrusive thoughts that will not quiet, along with checking, counting, washing, or a pull toward symmetry and just right. Private mental rituals and avoidance become routine, and hours disappear into behaviors you recognize as excessive yet cannot stop.
Everything opens with a clinical interview where your psychologist gathers a full history of the obsessions and compulsions. When the client is a child or teen, we invite caregivers and teachers to add what they observe, so the account reflects home and classroom alike before any testing is chosen.
From that history your psychologist assembles a personalized battery, one that sets a cognitive and executive function baseline beside structured OCD specific and emotional measures. In person testing generally takes two to six hours across one or two days, and a set of questionnaires goes home for you, and for younger clients their caregivers and teachers, to complete.
All of it is pulled into a single comprehensive written report. The report describes the obsessions and compulsions in detail and flags any co occurring conditions the evaluation turned up, so the findings sit in one place rather than scattered notes.
Roughly two to three weeks later you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist explains what the testing showed and hands you individualized recommendations, exposure and response prevention (ERP) among them, along with concrete steps for school, work, or home.
No referral is needed. You are free to contact Core Spring Diagnostics yourself, for any reason at all, and we will speak with your other providers only when you specifically ask us to.
You begin with an interview and history, move into a cognitive and executive baseline paired with OCD specific measures, and we screen for conditions that often sit alongside OCD. The same psychologist runs each part and later talks you through the results.
Tidiness and ordinary worry come and go without much cost. OCD centers on unwanted, intrusive thoughts and the compulsions used to quiet them, and both stretch until they eat time and cause real distress. The evaluation draws that line clearly.
Yes. We work with children, teens, and adults, shifting the questions and the pace to fit each age and leaning on what caregivers and teachers notice when the client is young.
Anxiety, depression, tics or Tourette’s, and ADHD are the usual companions. Each one is part of our screening, so the recommendations you leave with cover the whole picture instead of a single symptom.
Reach Core Spring Diagnostics at (608) 396 4830 or send a consultation request through the website. No referral stands in the way, and we will help you map the path that suits your concerns.
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