It can start small. One extra wash, one more wipe of the counter, one rule about what is clean and what is not. Then the fear of contamination grows, and before long the whole household is arranging its day around it: certain doors nobody touches, hands scrubbed until they crack, a bathroom routine that swallows the morning. Maybe it is your child who cannot settle until things feel safe, or maybe you are the adult quietly steering everyone away from what feels contaminated. You did not come here to be talked down to. You came for a straight answer. An OCD evaluation in Fond du Lac with Core Spring Diagnostics is a thorough, individualized assessment that puts language to what has been happening and points you toward what genuinely helps. You are welcome to contact us yourself, with no referral required.
We open every evaluation with a baseline of cognitive and executive function, then shape the rest around the particular obsessions and compulsions you describe. A single licensed psychologist carries you through it all, from that first phone call to the moment we sit down and go over the results. Along the way we draw on structured measures made specifically for OCD, and we look for the conditions that so often ride alongside it, such as anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD.
Routines that must be carried out in a fixed way or repeated until they feel correct, heavy hand washing or a preoccupation with germs, a constant need to be reassured, genuine upset when a familiar routine gets broken, arranging or lining up belongings, and worries that loom far larger than whatever set them off.
Rituals that stretch on and steal time from homework and sleep, intrusive thoughts that are often upsetting, hidden mental compulsions such as counting or replaying things silently, steering clear of anything that triggers them, seeking reassurance, and embarrassment or secrecy about habits they cannot seem to break.
Intrusive thoughts that will not quiet down, checking, washing, counting, a pull toward symmetry or a just right feeling, private mental rituals, avoidance, and stretches of time swallowed by routines you recognize as excessive yet feel powerless to stop.
Your evaluation opens with an interview of about an hour, where your psychologist builds a careful history of the obsessions and compulsions: when they first appeared, how they have shifted over time, and how much of your day and peace of mind they consume. What comes out of that conversation guides which OCD specific measures will give us the sharpest picture.
Your psychologist assembles a battery chosen for you, joining a cognitive and executive function baseline with structured measures for OCD and mood. In person testing usually runs two to six hours across one or two visits. Questionnaires go home with you as well, and for children and teens, to the caregivers and teachers who watch these patterns unfold every day.
Everything gathered, both the testing results and what your psychologist observed, is drawn together into a detailed report. It lays out the character and severity of the OCD, the specific obsessions and compulsions at work, and any co-occurring conditions the evaluation surfaced, whether anxiety, depression, tics, or ADHD.
Usually two to three weeks after testing wraps up, you come back for a feedback session. Your psychologist talks you through the findings and offers recommendations built for you, including evidence based therapy such as exposure and response prevention, supports at school or work, and clear next steps you can take.
No. A referral is never required to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You can get in touch on your own, for whatever reason brings you, and we will only coordinate with your other providers if that is what you would like.
A clinical interview and full history, a cognitive and executive function baseline, structured measures made for OCD, and screening for co-occurring conditions like anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD. One psychologist runs the entire evaluation and walks you through what it means.
OCD centers on unwanted, intrusive obsessions and the compulsions people lean on to ease them, and both grow time consuming and distressing. A formal evaluation separates real OCD from everyday tidiness, perfectionism, or general worry, and makes clear what will actually help.
Yes. We evaluate children, teens, and adults, adjusting the process and the questions to each stage of life, and we fold in what caregivers and teachers observe when we are working with younger clients.
OCD often shows up alongside anxiety, depression, tics or Tourette’s, and ADHD. Because screening for co-occurring conditions is part of every evaluation, the recommendations can speak to the full picture rather than one piece of it.
A written report in plain language and a feedback session with recommendations shaped around you, including evidence based therapy such as exposure and response prevention (ERP) along with other supports.
You can begin by calling Core Spring Diagnostics at (414) 387-2100 or by sending a consultation request through our website. No referral is needed, and we will help you chart the evaluation path that fits your concerns.
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