OCD has a way of shrinking your world: the surfaces you cannot touch, the places you start avoiding, the washing that never feels like enough. Maybe that is your experience, or maybe you watch your child steer around triggers no one else can see. An OCD evaluation in Verona, WI with Core Spring Diagnostics is an individualized assessment that explains the avoidance and points toward relief. You can reach out with no referral.
We ground every evaluation in a baseline of cognitive and executive functioning, then tailor everything that follows to the specific obsessions and compulsions you bring. One licensed psychologist handles the process from the earliest conversation to the last, so it never fragments into handoffs. Structured measures made for OCD guide the assessment, and we screen in parallel for anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD, the conditions that so frequently arrive with it.
Look for rituals that must be done a set way or repeated until they feel right, washing tied to a fear of germs, and a constant need for reassurance. Interrupting a routine may bring genuine distress, and your child might arrange or line up objects before they can feel settled.
Rituals begin consuming homework hours and sleep, intrusive thoughts turn distressing, and hidden mental compulsions like counting or reviewing take root. Steering clear of triggers, seeking reassurance, and carrying shame about behaviors they cannot stop are all familiar signs.
Contamination fears drive washing and avoidance while intrusive thoughts, checking, counting, and just right urges persist. Private mental rituals become routine, whole areas of life get avoided, and time disappears into behaviors you know are excessive but cannot seem to resist.
The evaluation begins with a clinical interview and a full history, your psychologist learning how the obsessions and compulsions took shape and how far the avoidance now reaches. For children and teens, caregivers and teachers share what they see so the story is complete before testing starts.
Your psychologist then coordinates a personalized battery that combines a cognitive and executive function baseline with structured OCD specific and emotional measures. The in person work typically involves two to six hours across one or two days, with questionnaires provided to you and, for younger clients, to the caregivers and teachers around them.
Each result and observation is consolidated into a comprehensive written report. It captures the obsessions and compulsions involved and flags any co occurring conditions the evaluation revealed, so you hold one coherent account rather than fragments.
About two to three weeks later, you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist reviews the findings and offers individualized recommendations, exposure and response prevention (ERP) included, plus supports built for school or work.
No, a referral is never needed. Reach out to Core Spring Diagnostics directly, for any reason at all, and we will coordinate with your other providers only if that is what you prefer.
The evaluation combines an interview and full history, a cognitive and executive baseline, structured OCD specific measures, and a screen for co occurring conditions. One psychologist conducts it all and then guides you through what was found.
Tidiness and worry usually stay in the background of a day. OCD centers on unwanted, intrusive obsessions and the compulsions people rely on to relieve them, and together they become time consuming and distressing. The evaluation sets true OCD apart.
Yes. We see children, teens, and adults, adapting the process and the questions to each stage and including caregiver and teacher input for younger clients so the full picture comes through.
Anxiety, depression, tics or Tourette’s, and ADHD often accompany OCD. Because screening for them is part of every evaluation, your recommendations address everything at play rather than one isolated symptom.
Phone Core Spring Diagnostics at (608) 396 4830 or submit a consultation request on the website. No referral is necessary, and we will help you lay out the evaluation path that matches your concerns.
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