Vesna Hercigonja Novković, is a professor of special education, a doctor of medical sciences, and an ECP certificate holder in child and adolescent integrative psychotherapy and adult integrative psychotherapy. She is a certified psychotherapy supervisor.
She is the director of the Kocijan/Hercigonja Polyclinic, within which she founded the ADHD Center. At the Polyclinic, she conducts daily diagnostics and treatment of children and youth, and provides counseling for parents, teachers, and educators.
Founder and vice president of the Institute for Psychotherapy and Counseling of Children, Families, and Youth, D.O.M. (EAPTI). The D.O.M. Institute has been providing education in child and adolescent integrative psychotherapy and supervision of child and adolescent psychotherapists since 2010.
She is a lecturer at several psychotherapy institutes in Croatia and abroad, at several faculties in Zagreb (Faculty of Teacher Education, Faculty of Philosophy – Department of Psychology and Faculty of Law), a lecturer in the Propaedeutics of Psychotherapy program, the author of numerous papers, congress lectures, chapters in professional books, writes columns in several magazines and is the co-author of the book “ADHD – from prejudices to facts”.
Her areas of interest are children and youth, ADHD and behavioral disorders.
She is married and the mother of three daughters.

Vesna Hercigonja Novković, PhD
Defectologist, Integrative psychotherapist for children, adolescents and adults