We are introducing Ivona Mladina, MA psych., Licensed Psychotherapist
Ivona Mladina, MA psych. joined the team of St. Catherine Specialty Hospital at the beginning of 2025.
She graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 2009 with MA degree in psychology. In 2017, she completed a five-year training course for a clinical psychotherapist at the Institute for Integrative Gestalt Psychotherapy in Würzburg, and in 2022, with the establishment of the Croatian Chamber of Psychotherapists, she received the title of licensed psychotherapist in the Republic of Croatia. She is currently attending the postgraduate specialist study program in clinical psychology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.
Her special professional interest is working with people with difficulties from the spectrum of anxiety and mood disorders, working through/with psychological (developmental, identity) crises and major life events, grieving processes, psychological support during health crises, recovery from illness and changes in health behaviors, working with chronic pain, assisting people with difficulties due to substance abuse, and eating disorders.
She is in continuous training as a psychotherapist at the Istituto di Gestalt HCC Italy (Advanced international training: A Gestalt Therapy Field Approach to Development and Psychopathology (2022- today); Gestalt Therapy in Action: The therapist as a political agent – Online Program Series (2024). She attended trainings in partner psychotherapy, a cycle of education in ART psychotherapy techniques, completed the 101 level of education in Transactional Analysis (psychotherapy) and other shorter educational and experiential workshops and trainings (socially specific groups of patients, basics of online psychotherapy, process work, projective techniques, etc.). She is also in a continuous educuation in psychological diagnostics.
She is the author of various professional and educational publications, and an organizer, moderator and participant in conferences, roundtables and educations for experts and the public.
She is a member of the Croatian Psychological Chamber, the Croatian Chamber of Psychotherapists and the Gestalt Society for Integrative Psychotherapists in Croatia.
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