Maybe you lie awake running the same worry on a loop, or your child freezes at the door before school and cannot say why. You want real answers, not another suggestion to breathe deeply. Our Anxiety Evaluations in Fox Point, WI help you understand what is actually happening, and no referral is needed to begin.
Every one of our Anxiety Evaluations in Fox Point, WI opens with a baseline of cognitive and executive function, then layers in anxiety and emotional measures chosen for your situation. A single licensed psychologist carries the process from start to finish, and because worry rarely travels alone, that same provider screens for the related concerns that often sit underneath it.
In younger kids, anxiety often shows up in the body first: recurring stomachaches or headaches, restless sleep, and clinginess when it is time to separate. You might notice avoidance of school or activities, a streak of perfectionism, or outsized reactions to everyday bumps in the day.
For teenagers, the worry can look like withdrawal, social nerves, or a sudden shortness with everyone at home. Concentration slips, muscles stay tense, and an unforgiving inner voice keeps score long after the moment has passed. Some hide it well and quietly exhaust themselves keeping up.
Adults often describe a hum of worry that never fully quiets, thoughts that race at night, and a body that will not settle: tight shoulders, a quick pulse, sleep that comes hard. Many have called themselves a worrier for so long that they no longer notice how much it steers the day.
We start with a one hour conversation where your psychologist maps the story of your emotional life, from early childhood through the pressures of right now. Talking it through surfaces the patterns, the triggers, and the ways worry has been shaping your days, which points us toward the assessments that fit.
From what that first conversation reveals, your psychologist assembles a testing battery built around your anxiety and emotional functioning. In person testing typically runs 2 to 6 hours across one to two days, and you take home self report questionnaires; someone close to you may complete one too. If signs of ADHD, depression, or trauma surface along the way, those areas get screened as well.
Your psychologist gathers every piece, the test data, the observations, and the questionnaire results, into one detailed diagnostic report. Anything co occurring that turned up during the evaluation is documented in full, so you finish with a complete and honest read on what is driving how you feel.
Roughly two to three weeks later you come back for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks you through the findings in plain terms and lays out individualized next steps: coping strategies for home and work, therapy options such as CBT, medication guidance where relevant, and a plan shaped to your life.
No. A referral is never required to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You can contact us directly, for any reason at all, and get started.
A clinical interview, a cognitive and executive function baseline, anxiety and emotional measures, and screening for related concerns like attention, mood, and trauma, all guided by one psychologist from beginning to end.
We rarely do, because anxiety is usually best understood as one thread in a larger fabric. We build the evaluation around you and screen broadly, so nothing meaningful slips past unnoticed.
Yes. We see children, teens, and adults, and we adjust both the process and the questions to fit each stage of life.
A plain language report and a feedback session with individualized recommendations, including the kinds of therapy and support most likely to make a difference for you.
Call us at (414) 387-2100 and we will help you find a time. There is no referral to chase first and no gatekeeping to get through.
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