When OCD moves into a home, ordinary moments get heavy: the bedtime routine that has to restart, the same question asked again and again, the checking that makes everyone late. Maybe that is your family, or maybe you are the adult whose own rituals quietly run the day. An OCD evaluation in Sun Prairie, WI with Core Spring Diagnostics is an individualized assessment that explains what is happening and what eases it. No referral is needed.
Each evaluation is anchored first in a baseline of cognitive and executive functioning, then reshaped around the exact obsessions and compulsions you or your child are facing. A single licensed psychologist owns the process end to end, so you are never passed to someone new partway through. We lean on structured, OCD specific measures and, in the same breath, screen for anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD, the conditions that keep OCD company more often than not.
You may see rituals repeated until they feel right, heavy hand washing or worry about germs, and a steady need for reassurance. When a routine is broken the distress can seem outsized, and lining up or arranging things just so often becomes part of the day.
Rituals start eating into homework and sleep, intrusive and often upsetting thoughts take hold, and mental compulsions like counting or silent reviewing run in the background. Many teens avoid what sets them off and grow secretive about behaviors they cannot switch off.
Intrusive thoughts persist while checking, counting, washing, or symmetry urges take up more and more room. Private mental rituals and avoidance settle in, and long stretches of time vanish into routines you know go too far yet feel unable to stop.
The first meeting is a clinical interview in which your psychologist collects a full history of the obsessions and compulsions from the person living them. When a child or teen is being evaluated, caregivers and teachers are asked to weigh in so the household and the classroom both show up in the record.
Your psychologist then puts together a personalized battery, one that pairs a cognitive and executive function baseline with structured OCD specific and emotional measures. The in person portion usually runs two to six hours across one or two days, and questionnaires travel home for you to fill out and, with younger clients, for their caregivers and teachers as well.
Everything gathered turns into one comprehensive written report. It spells out the obsessions and compulsions at work and identifies any co occurring conditions the process uncovered, so the whole family has a clear account to work from.
Two to three weeks or so afterward, you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist reviews what the testing found and lays out individualized recommendations, exposure and response prevention (ERP) included, plus practical supports for home and school.
No referral is needed. Your family can contact Core Spring Diagnostics directly, for any reason, and we will reach out to other providers only if you want us to.
It brings together an interview and full history, a cognitive and executive baseline, structured OCD specific measures, and screening for conditions that often accompany OCD. A single psychologist carries out the whole thing and explains the findings to you.
Careful, tidy, or anxious habits do not usually cost hours of the day. OCD is built on intrusive, unwanted obsessions and the compulsions used to ease them, and the two become time consuming and distressing. The evaluation makes the distinction clear.
Yes. We assess children, teens, and adults, shaping the pace and the questions to each stage and weaving in what caregivers and teachers observe so a young person’s picture is complete.
Anxiety, depression, tics or Tourette’s, and ADHD frequently sit beside OCD. Because every evaluation screens for them, the recommendations reflect everything happening rather than the single most obvious symptom.
Phone Core Spring Diagnostics at (608) 396 4830 or send a consultation request from the website. No referral is required, and we will help your family settle on the evaluation path that makes sense.
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