You lock the door, then something makes you go back and try the handle again. You already turned off the stove, but you can picture the burner and cannot quite trust the picture. You reread the email you just sent, hunting for the mistake that would explain the tightness in your chest. By the time the checking loosens its grip, the morning is half gone and the workday is already running behind. If any of that sounds like your own quiet routine, you are not looking for judgment, you are looking for answers that hold up. An OCD evaluation in Racine with Core Spring Diagnostics is a thorough, individualized assessment that finally puts language to what is happening and points you toward what actually eases it. You can reach out to us yourself, and no referral is needed.
The process opens with a baseline of cognitive and executive function, and from there it is shaped around the particular obsessions and compulsions you describe. One licensed psychologist carries the whole thing, from that first phone call to the day we sit down and go over the results. We rely on structured, OCD specific measures, and because OCD rarely arrives alone, we also screen for the conditions that tend to travel with it, among them anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD.
Rituals that have to unfold in a fixed way or be repeated until they feel correct, washing or germ worries that go well past ordinary caution, a steady need for reassurance, genuine upset when a routine gets interrupted, objects lined up or ordered just so, and worries that loom much larger than the situation calls for.
Rituals that stretch on long enough to cut into homework and sleep, intrusive thoughts that are often upsetting, silent compulsions such as counting or mentally going back over things, steering around triggers, asking for reassurance, and a layer of shame or secrecy about habits they cannot seem to stop.
Intrusive thoughts that keep returning, 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 skip.
Your evaluation starts with a clinical interview of about an hour, where your psychologist builds a detailed history of the obsessions and compulsions: when they first appeared, how they have shifted over time, and how much time and distress they take from you. What surfaces in that conversation guides which OCD specific measures will show the clearest picture.
Your psychologist assembles a battery made for you, one that sets a cognitive and executive function baseline alongside structured OCD specific and emotional measures. In person testing usually runs two to six hours across one or two days. We also send questionnaires home, and for children and teens, to the caregivers and teachers who watch these patterns play out every day.
Every piece of testing data and each clinical observation is drawn together into a detailed report that lays out the nature and severity of the OCD, the specific obsessions and compulsions at work, and any co-occurring conditions we identified along the way, such as anxiety, depression, tics, or ADHD.
Usually two to three weeks after testing, you come back for a feedback session. Your psychologist talks you through the findings and offers recommendations shaped 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 contact us directly, for whatever reason brings you here, 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 what it found.
OCD centers on unwanted, intrusive obsessions and the compulsions people lean on to quiet them, and both grow time consuming and distressing. A formal evaluation tells true OCD apart from everyday habits, perfectionism, or general anxiety, and it clarifies what will genuinely help.
Yes. We evaluate children, teens, and adults, and we adjust the process and the questions to fit each stage, drawing on input from caregivers and teachers for our younger clients.
OCD often shows up alongside anxiety, depression, tics or Tourette’s, and ADHD. Screening for co-occurring conditions is part of every evaluation, so the recommendations speak to the whole picture rather than one slice of it.
A written report in plain language and a feedback session with recommendations made for you, including evidence based therapy such as exposure and response prevention (ERP) and 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 you map out the evaluation path that fits your concerns.
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