By Ann Helmus, Ph.D.
Founder and Director, NESCA
At NESCA, we’re thrilled to share how 2025 has gotten off to an unbelievable begin! In the course of the very first week of the 12 months, we had the pleasure of welcoming three new neuropsychologists to the NESCA workforce. These proficient clinicians began their NESCA careers with an intensive week-long coaching, throughout which lots of our seasoned NESCA clinicians introduced on their areas of specialization. This immersive onboarding expertise underscored our dedication to skilled development and guaranteeing that each workforce member has the instruments to offer the very best degree of care to our purchasers.
Including to the richness of the week, we had been joined by a neuropsychologist from Florida, who’s contemplating relocating to Boston to turn out to be a part of our workforce. Her views on regional variations in neuropsychological apply, together with bilingual evaluations, added a beneficial dimension to our discussions, enhancing the change of concepts. All of our new neuropsychologists are mid-career professionals, and the week was characterised by vibrant discussions the place everybody discovered from one another. This mutual sharing of information exemplifies the collaborative and collegial spirit that makes NESCA a pacesetter within the subject of pediatric neuropsychology.
We additionally had the distinction of internet hosting a particular night for pediatric neuropsychology postdoctoral fellows and interns, aimed toward supporting them of their profession exploration. Over dinner, these early-career clinicians heard from a panel of 4 skilled pediatric neuropsychologists working in numerous settings, together with hospital-based roles, solo practices, and group practices like NESCA. The panelists shared insights on what drives profession satisfaction, methods to obtain work-family steadiness, and concerns round compensation. The discussions had been full of life and thought-provoking, offering invaluable steering to these embarking on their careers in pediatric neuropsychology.
At NESCA, our mission goes past delivering distinctive neuropsychological evaluations. We’re deeply dedicated to fostering an atmosphere of studying, skilled improvement, and collaboration. Whether or not it’s by welcoming new workforce members, creating alternatives for knowledge-sharing, or serving to early-career clinicians chart their profession paths, we try to construct an expert group that embodies help and excellence.
What I noticed unfold and skilled throughout our coaching week – from each NESCA’s seasoned medical employees and our latest additions – offers me immense job satisfaction and will get me away from bed within the morning. Whereas I’m now not seeing purchasers myself, I’m now impressed by creating alternatives for individuals to be taught from one another and change concepts; watching individuals meet and collaborate; and dealing intently with NESCA’s management workforce to constantly enhance NESCA. All these items drive me personally, however, extra importantly, result in higher consumer care.
Right here’s to a 2025 stuffed with development, connection, and continued dedication to our mission of serving to kids and households thrive. We sit up for the 12 months forward and all that we are going to accomplish collectively!
Concerning the Writer
NESCA Founder/Director Ann Helmus, Ph.D. is a licensed medical neuropsychologist who has been practising for nearly 30 years. In 1996,
she collectively based the Youngsters’s Analysis Heart (CEC) in Newton, Massachusetts, serving as co-director there for nearly 10 years. Throughout that point, CEC emerged as a number one regional middle for the prognosis and remediation of each studying disabilities and Autism Spectrum Issues.
In September of 2007, Dr. Helmus established NESCA (Neuropsychology & Training Companies for Youngsters & Adolescents), a consumer and family-centered group of seasoned neuropsychologists and allied employees, lots of whom she educated, striving to create and refine modern medical protocols and devoted to setting new requirements of care within the subject.
She is an energetic participant within the Trauma and Studying Coverage Initiative, a collaborative effort between Massachusetts Advocates for Youngsters and Harvard Legislation Faculty’s Training Legislation Clinic, a mission involving a multi-disciplinary group of execs working collectively to raised outline and meet the tutorial wants of youngsters who’ve been traumatized.
She obtained her undergraduate diploma in Neural Science from Brown College and earned her doctorate at Boston College Faculty of Drugs. Her postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology was accomplished at Youngsters’s Hospital in Boston, the place she remained on employees for seven years. Concurrently, she served as neuropsychologist to the Pediatric Mind Tumor Clinic at Dana-Farber Most cancers Institute in Boston.
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NESCA is a pediatric neuropsychology apply and integrative therapy middle with places of work in Newton, Plainville, and Hingham, Massachusetts; Londonderry, New Hampshire; the larger Burlington, Vermont area; and Brooklyn, New York (teaching providers solely) serving purchasers from infancy by younger maturity and their households. For extra data, please electronic mail data@nesca-newton.com or name 617-658-9800.
