You know the feeling before you have a word for it. Your child comes home already wound tight, or you catch yourself rehearsing every conversation twice, or the moment things go quiet your mind fills the silence with worst cases. An Anxiety Evaluation in Wauwatosa, WI takes that experience seriously and digs into what is underneath the worry, and no referral is needed to begin.
The work starts from a baseline of cognitive and executive function, because anxiety often shows up first as a mind that cannot settle or focus, and from there we layer in anxiety and emotional measures matched to your particular concern. A single licensed psychologist stays with the whole evaluation and deliberately watches for the related concerns anxiety tends to bring with it.
Younger children often speak anxiety through the body and the routine rather than words. You might notice tummy aches or headaches doctors cannot pin down, resistance at bedtime, panic about being away from you, avoiding activities they used to enjoy, and outsized reactions to small everyday bumps.
In teens it frequently masquerades as attitude or apathy. Watch for worry that will not switch off, dread around social situations, procrastination that looks like laziness but is really avoidance, tight shoulders and headaches, and a self critical inner voice that no grade or compliment can quiet.
For adults it can feel like a motor that never idles down: a steady undercurrent of worry, thoughts that speed up at night, an inability to truly relax, a racing heart and clenched muscles, and a persistent readiness for the next problem, as though your nervous system forgot how to stand down.
The first step is roughly an hour of focused conversation. Your psychologist traces your emotional history from your earliest years to your present day routine, listening for the specific triggers and the ways the worry is shaping how you function. What comes out of that hour directly guides which assessments belong in your particular evaluation.
Drawing on that conversation, your psychologist builds a testing battery designed for your concern rather than a generic set. Expect about 2 to 6 hours of in person work spread over one to two days. Self report questionnaires go home with you, and a close family member is welcome to complete one too. If ADHD, depression, or trauma signs emerge, we fold in screening for them.
We bring the whole evaluation together, scores, observations, and questionnaire results, into a single thorough report. Any cooccurring conditions we spotted are written up in full, so the document you receive reflects the complete story of what is driving your anxiety, not a convenient slice of it.
Usually two to three weeks out, you return for feedback. Your psychologist explains the findings without the jargon and offers recommendations tailored to you: everyday coping strategies, therapy approaches like CBT or other evidence based options, a candid take on medication if it is relevant, and concrete next steps you can start on.
Not at all. Core Spring Diagnostics never requires a referral to see you. You are welcome to contact us directly, for whatever reason brought you here, and set things in motion on your own.
That is rarely the wisest route. Anxiety keeps such close company with attention, mood, and trauma concerns that we shape the evaluation to you and screen widely on purpose, making sure a narrow focus does not let something important go unseen.
It combines a clinical interview, a cognitive and executive function baseline, anxiety and emotional measures, and screening for related concerns, with one psychologist guiding all of it rather than a rotating team.
Yes. We evaluate children, teens, and adults alike, adjusting both the pace and the questions to each developmental stage instead of running everyone through an identical script.
The easiest way is to phone us at (414) 387 2100. We will answer your questions and get you scheduled, with no referral needed and no barriers between you and a first conversation.
A readable report and a feedback session built around individualized recommendations, spelling out the therapy and support options with the best odds of helping your particular situation.
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