Some of the hardest OCD lives out of sight: the silent counting, the reassurance you seek in careful ways, the thought you replay so no one notices. Maybe that is you, or maybe your child hides rituals they cannot explain. An OCD evaluation in Middleton, WI with Core Spring Diagnostics is an individualized assessment that brings the hidden pattern into the light and clarifies what helps. Reaching out takes no referral.
We begin every evaluation by establishing where your cognitive and executive functioning stands, then shape the rest around the particular obsessions and compulsions troubling you. One licensed psychologist carries the process the whole way through, from intake to feedback, with no midpoint handoffs. Structured measures built specifically for OCD do the heavy lifting, and we screen alongside them for anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD, the companions OCD so frequently brings.
A ritual that has to unfold a certain way or start over until it feels right, repeated hand washing, and frequent pleas for reassurance. Interrupting a routine can spark surprising distress, and objects may need to be lined up or arranged before your child can settle.
Rituals that steadily crowd out study time and rest, intrusive thoughts they find distressing, and hidden mental compulsions such as counting or reviewing. Trigger avoidance, quiet reassurance seeking, and a layer of secrecy around behaviors they wish they could stop are common.
Persistent intrusive thoughts alongside checking, washing, counting, or a need for symmetry and just right. Mental rituals stay private, avoidance becomes a habit, and considerable time slips away into routines you know are excessive but feel powerless to interrupt.
Your evaluation starts with a clinical interview and a complete history, your psychologist tracing where the obsessions and compulsions began and how they operate now. For a child or teen, caregivers and teachers contribute their own observations so nothing that stays hidden at home or school goes unrecorded.
Next your psychologist tailors a battery to you, joining a cognitive and executive function baseline to structured OCD specific and emotional measures. Plan on two to six hours of in person testing over one or two days, plus questionnaires that go home with you and, for younger clients, to the adults who see the patterns up close.
The results are drawn together into a thorough written report. It sets out the obsessions and compulsions in plain terms and names any co occurring conditions surfaced during testing, giving you one clear document instead of a pile of scores.
About two to three weeks on, you sit down for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks through the findings and offers individualized recommendations, including exposure and response prevention (ERP) and supports suited to school, work, or daily life.
No, a referral is not required. You can approach Core Spring Diagnostics directly, whatever your reason, and we coordinate with any other providers strictly at your request.
An interview and full history, a cognitive and executive baseline, structured OCD specific measures, and a screen for conditions that commonly accompany OCD. One psychologist handles all of it and then explains where the findings land.
Being neat or prone to worry rarely takes over your hours. OCD runs on intrusive, unwelcome obsessions and the compulsions meant to relieve them, and the pair grows time consuming and distressing. The evaluation separates one from the other.
We do. Children, teens, and adults are all welcome, and we adjust the process for each developmental stage, drawing on caregiver and teacher input whenever the client is younger.
OCD tends to bring anxiety, depression, tics or Tourette’s, and ADHD along with it. Screening for each is standard in every evaluation, so your recommendations speak to the full person rather than one visible behavior.
Call Core Spring Diagnostics at (608) 396 4830 or submit a consultation request online. There is no referral to arrange first, and we will help you sketch the evaluation path that fits your situation.
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