About hanna
Hanna Bogen Novak, M.S., CCC-SLP
Clinical Director of the Center for Connection & Speech-Language Pathologist
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Hanna is the co-creator of the Brain Talk Curriculum. To learn more about it, visit the below link:
Hanna is a trained provider of CAPDOTS (TM), a dichotic listening program to address Auditory Processing difficulties. You can learn more here.
Hanna Novak, M.S., CCC-SLP is Clinical Director of the CFC and a licensed and board certified Speech and Language Therapist. Within her clinical work, Hanna has a primary focus on pediatric and young adult services that support self-/emotional-regulation, social communication, executive functioning, and speech and language development. She believes in a neurodiversity-affirming, play-based, child-led, developmental approach to therapy informed by the Interpersonal Neurobiology framework. In an effort to fully support the whole-person, Hanna utilizes clients’ strengths and interests, while honoring their unique neurodevelopmental constellations, in order to help them achieve their communication goals. Since all communication occurs within social contexts, Hanna considers the many environments, activities, and relationships within which a client’s interactions take place, and she and the client collaboratively develop goals that maximize personal communication success. Mindfulness activities, sensory-regulation opportunities, considerations of/support for trauma, emotional-regulation supports, and metacognitive thinking strategies are woven into therapy sessions. Hanna welcomes each client to come exactly as they are, knowing they will be safe, seen, and celebrated for the unique ways their brain wires and fires.
Hanna’s interest in the role of one’s overall regulation on their communicative success led her to co-create The Brain Talk Curriculum, a program designed to teach students about their brains and how to use their executive functioning capacities of the prefrontal cortex to respond, plan, and reflect mindfully rather than react impulsively. In addition to providing individual and group therapy services, Hanna regularly consults with and trains school and therapy teams to support greater understanding of self-regulation, executive functioning, mindfulness, and social-cognitive strategies. She has trained PreK-12 teachers, parents, and professionals across the United States.
Hanna completed her undergraduate degree in Political Science at Linfield College in McMinnville, OR, went on to pursue a post-baccalaureate degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders at Portland State University in Portland, OR, and received her Masters of Science in Speech and Language Sciences from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. Hanna loves to experience the sights, sounds, and adventures of new places while traveling with her family. She enjoys hiking, cooking, and spending quality time with her community of friends and family.
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