It usually starts quietly. A teenager slips away to redo a routine one more time, checks the same thing over and over, or lies awake finishing a ritual no one else can see, and slowly the grades slip and the sleep goes with them. Maybe that is your kid, hiding hours of private habits behind a closed door. Maybe you are the adult who has spent years tangled in checking, counting, or intrusive thoughts you would never act on yet cannot switch off. Whatever led you here, you are looking for honest answers and none of the judgment. An OCD evaluation in Waukesha with Core Spring Diagnostics is an in-depth, individualized assessment that finally puts words to what is happening and points to what actually helps. You can reach out to us directly, and no referral is needed.
Each evaluation opens with a baseline of cognitive and executive function, then is shaped around the particular obsessions and compulsions you describe, with a single licensed psychologist carrying you through every step from that first phone call to the feedback session. We draw on structured, OCD specific measures and check for the conditions that so commonly ride alongside OCD, including anxiety, depression, tics, and ADHD.
Routines that must follow an exact order or be repeated until they feel right, scrubbing hands raw or an outsized fear of germs, a steady need for reassurance, genuine upset when a routine is broken, arranging and lining up belongings, and worries that loom far larger than whatever prompted them.
Rituals that swallow up homework and sleep, intrusive thoughts that are often distressing, mental compulsions such as counting or silently going back over things, steering clear of triggers, asking for reassurance, and quiet shame or secrecy about behaviors they cannot seem to stop.
Intrusive thoughts that will not let up, checking, washing, counting, urges toward symmetry or a just right feeling, private mental rituals, avoidance, and long stretches of the day lost to routines you recognize as excessive but feel powerless to resist.
Your evaluation opens with an hour long clinical interview in which 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. What comes out of this conversation decides which OCD specific measures will bring the clearest picture into focus.
Your psychologist assembles a battery made for you, joining a cognitive and executive function baseline with structured OCD specific and emotional measures. Testing runs about two to six hours of in person work across one or two days. Questionnaires go home with you as well, and for children and teens they reach 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 thorough report describing the nature and severity of the OCD, the specific obsessions and compulsions at play, and any co-occurring conditions surfaced during the evaluation, such as anxiety, depression, tics, or ADHD.
Roughly 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 made for your situation, including evidence based therapy such as exposure and response prevention, supports for school or the workplace, and clear next steps suited to you.
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 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. A single psychologist carries out the entire evaluation and walks you through what it found.
OCD involves unwanted, intrusive obsessions along with the compulsions people lean on to ease them, and both grow time consuming and distressing. A formal evaluation separates true OCD from everyday habits, perfectionism, or general anxiety, and makes plain what will actually help.
Yes. We evaluate children, teens, and adults, adjusting the process and the questions to each stage of life, including input from caregivers and teachers when we are working with 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 piece 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) 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 chart the right evaluation path for what is concerning you.
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