Perhaps you have spent years reading every room for danger, or feeling like too much and not enough at once. When trauma stretched over a long time, it can quietly shape trust, mood, and how you see yourself. A Complex PTSD Evaluation in Greenfield, WI gives those experiences language and understanding, and no referral is needed to start.
We start from a baseline of cognitive and executive function because it grounds everything that follows, then shift the focus toward the emotional and trauma related concerns that matter most to you. A single licensed psychologist stays with the process the whole way through. And since complex trauma often brings company, we look for the conditions that commonly appear alongside it.
With children we pay attention to how long term stress or adversity is surfacing, and we resist the urge to label too quickly. What matters is grasping what sits beneath the behavior and finding what genuinely helps them feel secure.
For teens, watch for feelings that spike and crash, a sense of self that feels harsh or unsteady, and real difficulty letting people in. Seen against what they have survived, their reactions read as understandable rather than baffling.
Many adults live with a low hum of worthlessness, emotions that tip into extremes, and trust that feels fragile in relationships. That constant undertow of feeling unsafe tends to spread across nearly every corner of life.
Your first hour is a clinical interview in which your psychologist listens to your personal history within a safe, supportive space. Since complex trauma tends to come from experiences that recurred, this conversation reaches across a longer timeline to understand how they shaped your feelings, your connections, and your sense of who you are. The pace is yours.
From there your psychologist builds a personalized set of assessments meant to capture the many layers of complex trauma, usually 2 to 6 hours in person across one to two days. Questionnaires go home with you, and a loved one may complete their own version by choice. If anxiety, depression, dissociation, or ADHD show themselves, we screen those areas too.
The testing results, the observations from your sessions, and the questionnaires all come together in a thorough diagnostic report. Your psychologist looks at how complex trauma has affected emotion, identity, relationships, and cognition, recording any conditions that occur alongside so nothing is missed.
About two to three weeks on, you return for feedback. Your psychologist explains the diagnosis and offers recommendations built around you: specialized trauma therapy paths, strategies for steadying emotion, relationship resources, and next steps that fit your own process of healing.
Not at all. Core Spring Diagnostics never asks for a referral before you can be seen. Contact us directly whenever you are ready, for whatever reason.
Complex PTSD generally comes from trauma that was prolonged or repeated, affecting self image, emotion, and relationships in wider ways, whereas PTSD often traces back to a single event. The evaluation sorts out which picture matches you.
You will have a trauma informed interview, a cognitive and executive baseline, trauma focused and emotional measures, and screening for related concerns, all guided by one psychologist at a respectful pace.
Yes. Teens and adults are both welcome here, and with younger clients we handle trauma related patterns with extra gentleness and care.
You leave with a plain language report and a feedback session offering individualized, trauma informed recommendations and a clear direction toward healing.
Reach us at (414) 387-2100 and we will set up a time together. You do not need a referral in hand to book.
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