Our evaluations are designed to identify underlying math-related difficulties and understand how they impact academic performance and confidence. We take a detailed and individualized approach to ensure each person’s learning profile is clearly understood.
Our evaluations provide an in-depth understanding of trauma-related symptoms tied to prolonged or repeated exposure to distressing experiences. One psychologist owns the process, beginning with a cognitive and executive function baseline, then addressing emotional dysregulation, persistent shame, negative self-concept, interpersonal difficulties, hypervigilance, and intrusive symptoms. You can start directly, with no referral needed. Because complex trauma rarely appears alone, screening for related concerns is standard, and the picture is built around your specific history rather than a fixed checklist or rigid timeline.
Prolonged trauma may manifest as intense emotional reactions, difficulty trusting adults, behavioral regression, chronic anxiety, disrupted attachment patterns, or problems with attention and academic engagement.
Complex trauma often appears as mood instability, persistent feelings of worthlessness, self isolating behavior, difficulty forming stable peer relationships, irritability, sleep disturbance, or heightened sensitivity to perceived rejection.
CPTSD may show up as chronic emotional overwhelm, unstable relationships, persistent shame, avoidance of intimacy, hypervigilance, intrusive memories, or difficulty maintaining consistent work or social functioning.
Your evaluation begins with a one-hour clinical interview where your psychologist gathers a thorough personal history in a safe, supportive environment. Complex PTSD often stems from prolonged or repeated experiences, so this conversation covers a broader timeline to understand how those experiences have shaped your emotional regulation, relationships, and sense of self. You set the pace.
Your psychologist selects a personalized battery of assessments designed to capture the layered effects of complex trauma. Testing involves 2 to 6 hours of in-person evaluation over one to two days. You will also be sent home with self-report questionnaires, and someone close to you can complete their own if they choose. If your psychologist identifies signs of other conditions (such as anxiety, depression, dissociation, or ADHD), those areas are screened for as well.
All testing data, clinical observations, and questionnaire results are compiled into a detailed diagnostic report. Your psychologist evaluates how complex trauma has affected emotional regulation, identity, relationships, and cognitive functioning. Any co-occurring conditions are fully documented to ensure a complete clinical picture.
Approximately two to three weeks after testing, you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks through the diagnosis and provides individualized recommendations: specialized trauma therapy options, emotional regulation strategies, relationship support resources, and next steps tailored to your healing process.
The first step is contacting Core Spring Diagnostics to schedule a consultation. During that initial conversation, you can describe your concerns, ask questions about the evaluation process, and determine which evaluation type is the best fit. From there, the clinical interview is scheduled as the formal starting point, where the psychologist gathers a detailed history and shapes the rest of the evaluation accordingly.
Yes, and this is one of the most clinically important questions the evaluation is designed to answer. Emotional dysregulation looks similar across C-PTSD, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and ADHD, but the underlying mechanisms and appropriate treatments are very different. Core Spring Diagnostics uses a combination of cognitive testing, gold-standard trauma tools, and comorbidity screening to develop a differential picture and reach the most accurate diagnostic conclusions possible.
A trauma-informed evaluation is structured around awareness that trauma history can affect how a person presents during testing, interacts with the evaluator, and responds to assessment conditions. At Core Spring Diagnostics, the clinical interview explicitly explores trauma history and current symptoms before testing begins, and the psychologist interprets all findings within that context. This is not a standard feature of all psychological evaluations, but it is standard at Core Spring Diagnostics.
Yes. The written report from a Core Spring Diagnostics evaluation documents diagnostic findings and functional limitations in a format appropriate for workplace accommodation requests, educational institutions, and disability determination processes. If you need documentation for a specific purpose, the psychologist can address this during the intake or feedback session.
Trauma, particularly when repeated or prolonged, can alter how memories are encoded, stored, and retrieved. People with complex trauma histories often describe fragmented memories, intrusive recollections, or difficulty with recall in stressful situations. These effects can show up on cognitive testing as memory encoding or retrieval difficulties. Core Spring Diagnostics interprets memory findings in the context of the full clinical picture, including trauma history, rather than in isolation.
Yes. Core Spring Diagnostics works with individuals from Menomonee Falls and surrounding communities for complex trauma evaluations. The process is the same for every client: one psychologist, gold-standard assessment tools, comorbidity screening, and a detailed written report with individualized recommendations.
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