Maybe your child freezes at the classroom door, or maybe you lie awake at 2 a.m. running tomorrow on a loop and have worn I am just a worrier like a name tag for years. You want to understand what is happening, not be told to relax. An Anxiety Evaluation in Brookfield, WI is a careful look at that worry and what it is costing you, and you do not need a referral to start.
Every evaluation here opens with a baseline of cognitive and executive function, the mental engine that anxiety loves to hijack, and only then adds targeted anxiety and emotional measures shaped around your specific worries. One licensed psychologist carries the whole thing, from the first conversation to the final feedback, and keeps an eye out for the concerns anxiety often travels with so nothing quietly slips past.
In younger kids anxiety rarely announces itself with the word worried. You may see recurring stomachaches or headaches with no medical cause, trouble falling asleep, clinginess at separation, foot dragging around school, and meltdowns that seem far bigger than the moment that set them off.
For teens it can hide behind irritability or a slipping GPA. You might notice constant low grade dread, a fear of being judged that shrinks their social world, homework that stalls for hours, muscle tension, and an inner voice that is relentlessly critical no matter how well they are doing.
As an adult you may know the drill: a background hum of worry that never fully quiets, thoughts that race the second your head hits the pillow, trouble unclenching even on a good day, a tense body with a quick pulse, and a mind always braced for whatever might go wrong next.
We begin with about an hour of unhurried conversation. Your psychologist gathers the arc of your emotional history, from childhood through what this week has felt like, and listens for the patterns, triggers, and ripple effects on your daily functioning. That conversation is what tells us which assessments will actually earn their place in your evaluation.
From what surfaces in that interview, your psychologist assembles a battery built for you, not a one size template. In person testing typically runs 2 to 6 hours across one to two days. You will take home self report questionnaires, and someone close to you can fill out their own if you like. If signs of ADHD, depression, or trauma show up along the way, we screen those too.
Every piece, the test data, the clinical observations, the questionnaires, gets pulled into one detailed diagnostic report. Anything co occurring that we identified is documented right alongside the main findings, so you walk away with a complete read on what is genuinely driving the worry rather than a partial one.
Typically two to three weeks later, you come back for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks you through the findings in real language and lays out individualized recommendations: coping tools for home and work, therapy options such as CBT, guidance on whether medication is worth discussing, and clear next steps that fit where you actually are.
No. You never need a referral to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You can reach out directly, for any reason, and start whenever you are ready.
We rarely do, and that is on purpose. Anxiety so often travels alongside attention, mood, or trauma concerns that we tailor the evaluation to you and screen broadly, so nothing meaningful gets missed by looking too narrowly.
A clinical interview, a cognitive and executive function baseline, targeted anxiety and emotional measures, and screening for related concerns, all handled by one psychologist from start to finish.
Yes. We work with children, teens, and adults, and we shape both the process and the questions to the person’s age and stage rather than using the same approach for everyone.
Call us at (414) 387-2100 and we will walk you through the next steps and find a time that works. There is no gatekeeping and no referral required to get on the calendar.
A plain language report and a feedback session with individualized recommendations, including the kinds of therapy and support most likely to genuinely help in your situation.
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