Registered Clinical Counsellor
MA, BEd, BA
Registered Clinical Counsellor
ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP)
ADHD-Certified Educator (ADHD-CE)
She/Her
Mary works with teens ages 14-18, and parents/caregivers.
Tuesdays 12:00pm-6:30pm
Wednesdays 1:00pm-6:00pm
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Specializations:
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ADHD
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ODD
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Challenges at School
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Parenting Support
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Substance Use Challenges
MARY KLOVANCE
Mary is the owner and clinical director of The Neurodiversity Family Centre and has lived experience as a person with ADHD, is the daughter of an Autistic parent and is a parent herself.
Mary believes challenging behaviours are the symptom of the problem and works with her clients to identify unmet needs, lagging skills and unsolved problems and uses the Collaborative Problem Solving approach (CPS Model) to reduce or eliminate them.
Mary has worked for over 10 years as a school counsellor and for over five years with youth-at-risk for Victoria's Youth Empowerment Society at the teen drop in centre, youth Detox and youth shelter. Recently Mary was asked to join the Institute of Neurodiversity as a board member to represent Education for the new Canadian chapter and is on the Greater Victoria School District Accessibility Advisory Group. She is also a local public speaker on the topic of parenting neurodivergent youth and was featured in "Calming the ADHD Family: ADHD brain hacks for a calm, confident, connected family", Matters of the Mind Public Presentation on Parenting Youth with ADHD for the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors, a guest on Therapy Talks Podcast and is a course creator for Sonderly.
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