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Welcome to this week's Local Love Spotlight, where every Friday we hand the floor to a local business owner with a story worth telling.
This week, we are heading to West Edmonton to meet someone who turned her own family’s search for answers into a place built to give other families a clearer path. We think you will be glad you did.
NeuroWise Edmonton ADHD Center | West Edmonton
What is NeuroWise Edmonton ADHD Center?
Before Yaara Shabtai built anything, she was just trying to keep her own family afloat.
When ADHD showed up in her family, she found herself running the assessment in one office, therapy in another, school support somewhere else entirely, with no one connecting the dots or explaining how any of it was supposed to fit together.
"NeuroWise grew, and I thought of it both from personal and professional experience," Yaara says. "After seeing with my own family how fragmented ADHD support can be, going from one place to another, one assessment here, one for therapy, another for school support, there was no one connecting the dots together, no one explaining to us how to fully follow the plan, because different clinicians had different approaches. I basically became the case manager of my family."
"So I wanted to build a place where care feels more coordinated, more practical, and supports a person in all the different areas that they live in," she says.
That is the gap NeuroWise was built to close.
Based in West Edmonton just off Stony Plain Road, NeuroWise Edmonton ADHD Center works with children, adolescents and adults living with ADHD, along with the families around them. The center offers ADHD assessments, psychological counselling, occupational therapy, ADHD coaching, parent coaching, academic support, group programs, school consultation and community education.
"Our goal is basically to help people function better in their real life," Yaara says.
The people who find their way to NeuroWise come from a few different directions. "Usually the people who walk through our door either have a previous ADHD diagnosis or they are looking for an assessment," Yaara says. "Sometimes it will be a person who has a loved one with ADHD, or who is wanting an ADHD assessment for someone they care about. Although you do not have to have a diagnosis in order to be seen and cared for in our center."
What sets NeuroWise apart is how it refuses to treat ADHD in isolation. "We do not look at it in isolation," Yaara says. "We look at the client and all of the different systems that they live in, whether it is home, school, work, relationship, community, or recreational activities. We look at all of the different areas in a person's life, and the way we treat clients in our center is in a multidisciplinary, integrated, collaborative way, which means that clinicians talk to each other, and we come up with one integrated plan that the client can follow."
Yaara sees that coordination land for families every day, because she lived the alternative herself. "There are so many clients who remind me exactly of the process that I went through with all of the different clinicians," she says. "When the clinicians are finally communicating and talking to each other, that means a lot to people, whether it is therapy to support their child, OT to support regulation, parent coaching to support the parents, and academic support on top of all of this to communicate with the school. We have quite a few clients who experience the full scope that our center can offer, and they experience it as something very positive."
It is the same relief she was chasing for her own family, now showing up for someone else's.
Looking ahead, Yaara wants that reach to keep growing. "What excites me the most is seeing how it answers a gap that was in our community," she says. "I see so many people who find it so good to come to a place where their strengths are being celebrated and the care is integrative, and they get the practical support that they need. In a year from now, I see us even growing our community collaborations and school participation, and educating teachers and coaches on how ADHD affects a person's journey, and how to make it a little bit easier and more accessible for people with ADHD."
What she wants you to know
When asked what she wants people to know, not about what NeuroWise offers, but about who they are, Yaara points straight to the center's motto.
"It is in our motto, we celebrate unique minds daily," she says. "We work together to support people with ADHD in the best way we can, and to celebrate them every day."
That is NeuroWise Edmonton ADHD Center. And if your family has ever felt like the one holding all the pieces together, now you know a place built to help carry that with you.
Email Address
[email protected]
Phone number
+17802139559
Business Location (City and Address)
West Edmonton, 10441 178 Street NW
Website: https://neurowise.ca/
Instagram: @be.neuro.wise
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