About Dragana
Dragana Mandic is a PACFA counsellor who focuses on practical, evidence-informed therapy for stress and anxiety. He keeps sessions straightforward and collaborative, helping people find clearer ways to cope and move forward. He speaks English, Croatian and Serbian and brings ten years of practice in community and family service settings.
He uses a mix of approaches rather than one fixed method. That means sessions can include talking through patterns of thought, practising new skills, and looking at how early relationships affect current reactions.
Background and approach
The aim is to build small, manageable changes that fit each person’s life. Dragana has worked across community and family services, supporting people with trauma, parenting pressures, depression and relationship strain. He draws on attachment ideas and emotion-focused work to help with connection and trust, alongside cognitive tools for anxiety and mood.
This blend helps when problems are layered or complex. Sessions are client-centred and paced to what the person needs. He often focuses on skills for managing distress, strategies to reduce avoidance, and steps to improve communication patterns.
Practical homework and short-term skill building are offered when useful. People come for relief from panic, ongoing worry, grief after separation, or the strain of parenting and caring roles. Dragana aims to make therapy feel manageable, whether someone wants short-term help for a specific issue or a longer process to explore deeper patterns.
How attachment and cognitive work translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. Online sessions can use this approach to help people notice patterns in their relationships and try new ways of connecting and responding. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and practising different behaviours to reduce symptoms like worry and panic. In virtual sessions CBT often includes simple worksheets, thought records and short behavioural experiments to try between meetings.The therapist will work together with each person to choose the right mix of approaches. That means talking about goals, trying methods for a few sessions, and adjusting if something does not fit. This collaborative process helps ensure the work matches the person’s needs and preferences rather than being one-size-fits-all.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video lets people use visual cues for attachment and emotion-focused work. Phone sessions can suit shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is low. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief support, written skills practice, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options increase flexibility and help people keep progress steady across everyday demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Croatian, Serbian
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