By Ann Helmus, Ph.D.
Founder & Director, NESCA
NESCA supports your clinician—so your clinician can support you and your child
When you choose NESCA, you’re not just hiring an individual clinician—you’re accessing an entire organization built to deliver excellence to each family who works with us. From the first intake call to the final report, every step of our process is designed to ensure quality, accuracy, and the best outcomes for your family. Parents invest in this process to resolve complex questions about their child’s learning, development, or emotional well-being—questions that can only be addressed by a thoughtful, thorough evaluation leading to recommendations that will truly make a difference.
At NESCA, we believe that the best way to provide this level of care is to take extraordinary care of our clinicians. Our equation is simple:
Lower Case Volume + High Clinician Support =
Exceptional Evaluations + Better Outcomes
Supporting Clinicians in Doing Their Best Work
In some practices and settings, clinicians face heavy caseloads, which can make it difficult to dedicate as much time to each child as they’d like. With larger caseloads, clinicians are often left with little time for reflection, professional growth, or collaboration. At NESCA, we intentionally structure things differently. We greatly value our clinicians as highly educated professionals with many years of training and provide them with the support, environment, and opportunity to produce their most thorough and careful work.
From the beginning, NESCA was intentionally designed for clinicians to typically work with six or fewer clients each month—a low volume compared to many other practices or settings. This structure ensures that every child’s evaluation receives the time, attention, and individualized analysis it deserves.
We Care for Our Clinicians—So They Are Able to Care for Your Child
Behind the scenes, our clinicians are supported in ways that are uncommon in many private practices:
- Professional Development: Weekly seminars, ongoing mentorship, and access to senior clinical directors to ensure that every clinician is continually learning and growing.
- Collaboration: Regular case conferences provide a forum for discussing complex cases and drawing on the expertise of their NESCA colleagues who specialize in multiple disciplines, providing well-rounded and forward-looking perspectives. Your child’s clinician is never working in isolation.
- Dedicated Support Staff: Psychometricians handle test scoring, and administrative staff manage scheduling and logistics. This frees clinicians to focus entirely on the heart of their work—understanding your child.
- Quality over Quantity: Because we are not driven by volume, clinicians can invest the time needed to observe your child carefully, analyze test results holistically, speak with educators and providers on your team, and craft thoughtful recommendations.
What This Means for Families
We know that clinicians do their best work when they feel secure, valued, and engaged. That’s why NESCA provides stability, top notch administrative support, and a professional community. When challenges arise, we work with our clinicians to resolve them, offering mentorship and guidance rather than leaving them to struggle and produce work that doesn’t meet NESCA’s high standards.
This culture of care is not just good for our staff—it’s essential to the families we serve. It means that when you come to NESCA, you are working with professionals who are deeply committed, well supported, and fully equipped to provide the highest quality evaluations and recommendations.
We take care of our clinicians so that they can take the best possible care of your child.
About the Author
NESCA Founder and Director Ann Helmus, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical neuropsychologist who has been
practicing neuropsychology for 35 years and has been director of NESCA’s Neuropsychology practice for nearly three decades, continuously training and mentoring neuropsychologists to meet the highest professional standards.
To book a neuropsychological evaluation at NESCA, complete NESCA’s online intake form.
NESCA is a pediatric neuropsychology practice with offices in Newton, Plainville, and Hingham, Massachusetts; Londonderry, New Hampshire; the greater Burlington, Vermont region; and Miami/Coral Gables, Florida, serving clients from infancy through young adulthood and their families. For more information, please email info@nesca-newton.com or call 617-658-9800.
