The edges of the picture frame have to line up. The books on the shelf need to sit in the right order, and if one is off, you go back and even it out until something inside finally settles. Maybe your child straightens, arranges, and redoes small tasks over and over because they do not yet feel just right. Maybe you are the adult who has quietly spent years squaring things up, retracing steps, and repeating actions to chase a sense of symmetry that keeps slipping away. You are not looking for someone to minimize it. You want a clear read on what is going on. An OCD evaluation in Port Washington with Core Spring Diagnostics is a thorough, individualized assessment that puts words to the pattern and points toward what actually helps. You can contact us yourself, and no referral is needed.
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 the whole thing, from that first phone call to the final feedback conversation, so nothing gets handed off. Along the way we use structured, OCD specific measures and screen for the conditions that tend to sit alongside OCD, such as anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD.
Routines that must follow a set order or be repeated until they feel correct, scrubbing hands or worrying about germs, asking for reassurance again and again, becoming genuinely upset when a routine gets broken, arranging or evening up objects, and worries that loom far larger than the moment warrants.
Rituals that swallow up time meant for homework and sleep, intrusive and often upsetting thoughts, hidden mental compulsions such as counting or replaying things silently, steering clear of triggers, looking for reassurance, and secrecy or embarrassment about habits they cannot seem to stop.
Ongoing intrusive thoughts, checking, washing, counting, symmetry or just right urges, quiet mental rituals, avoidance, and hours swallowed by routines you recognize as excessive yet feel powerless to resist.
Your evaluation opens with a roughly one hour clinical interview, where your psychologist builds a detailed history of the obsessions and compulsions: when they first appeared, how they have shifted, and how much time and distress they take. What comes up in this conversation guides which OCD specific measures will give the sharpest picture.
Your psychologist assembles a personalized battery that combines a cognitive and executive function baseline with structured OCD specific and emotional measures. In person testing usually runs about two to six hours across one or two visits. We also send questionnaires to you and, for children and teens, to the caregivers and teachers who watch these patterns unfold day to day.
Every piece of testing data and each clinical observation is drawn together into a detailed report that describes the nature and severity of the OCD, the specific obsessions and compulsions at work, and any co-occurring conditions the evaluation surfaces, whether anxiety, depression, tics, or ADHD.
Usually about two to three weeks after testing, you come back for a feedback session. Your psychologist talks you through the findings and offers recommendations shaped around you, including evidence based therapy such as exposure and response prevention, supports for 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 contact us directly, for any reason at all, and we will coordinate with your other providers only if that is what you want.
A clinical interview and full history, a cognitive and executive function baseline, structured OCD specific measures, and screening for co-occurring conditions such as anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD. One psychologist runs the entire evaluation and walks you through the findings.
OCD centers on unwanted, intrusive obsessions and the compulsions people rely on to ease them, until both grow time consuming and distressing. A formal evaluation separates genuine OCD from ordinary habits, perfectionism, or everyday anxiety, and clarifies what will truly help.
Yes. We evaluate children, teens, and adults, adjusting the process and the questions to each stage of life, and we gather input from caregivers and teachers for younger clients.
OCD often occurs 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 whole picture rather than a single piece of it.
A written report in plain language and a feedback session with recommendations tailored to you, including evidence based therapy such as exposure and response prevention (ERP) along with other supports.
You can get started 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 chart the right evaluation path for your concerns.
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