Milijana Stojadinovic Counselling
Hello
I am a Mental Health Social Worker, registered and accredited through the Australian Association of Social Workers.
I have a wealth of experience working with: people who have a lived trauma experience (particularly those impacted by war/conflict/service injury); children and young people (8-25); and people who have experienced workplace related physical and psychological injury.
I also have experience working with migrants and migrant families. I am bilingual and can provide supportive counselling services in Serbian, English and French.
I am is a person-centred, trauma informed therapist and have the skills and knowledge to be able to collaborate with clients in the ways which work best for them.
My Story
I have worked in the community services sector since 2008 where I began my working journey in Industrial relations and the union movement. It was from this space that I gained an understanding of how adverse work place issues can affect every day life and individuals mental health. Whilst working in this field I completed my Bachelor of Social Work and Bachelor of Social Planning. I then moved onto working in various organisations, working with children and young people in the child protection system, working with refugee and migrant families who were either newly arrived or long term migrants, and many other services in between! Some of the sectors I have worked in since gaining my Bachelors Degrees are:
-Industrial relations
-Migrant and refugee health services;
-Child protection;
-Local government and Councils;
-Non-government organisations;
- Adult and refugee mental health sector;
-Youth mental health;
-and Private Enterprise.
I moved into in mental health in 2017 and have worked as a private clinician specialising in trauma informed practice and youth mental health since then. I am deeply grateful to the people who have chosen to share their mental health journey with me. Their bravery to go on the journey fills my heart with awe and inspiration. I am humbled by my job as a Mental Health Social Worker.
Other than the love for my work, I love cats, gardening, cups of tea and hanging out with my family and friends.