About Dragana
Dragana Mandic is a PACFA counsellor who focuses on clear, practical therapy that helps people manage anxiety, stress and phobias. He keeps sessions straightforward and collaborative so parents and individuals can find workable steps fast. He has ten years of experience in community and family service settings.
That background informs a calm, down-to-earth style that aims to reduce overwhelm and build coping skills. Sessions cover common concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma and parenting strain.
Background and approach
Dragana uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. He draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns. He uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and develop new habits.
He also works with Emotionally-Focused and client-centred methods to help people feel heard and understood. In practical terms he helps people develop coping strategies, improve communication, and manage stress responses. He can support those dealing with abandonment experiences, adoption and foster care issues, attachment difficulties, and adjustment after separation.
Sessions can be held in English, Croatian or Serbian. Dragana aims to make therapy accessible through clear explanations and focused tools. He invites people to bring specific goals so each session stays relevant to daily life.
How attachment and CBT work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in relationships and how early bonds affect current reactions. Online sessions can talk through those patterns and practice new ways of relating to partners or children. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and swap them for more useful ones, with clear exercises and homework to build new routines. Emotionally-Focused Therapy supports accessing and shifting strong emotions to improve relationships and self-understanding.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then try approaches that fit the person's needs. Sessions often mix methods so practical skills and deeper emotional work are both addressed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone can be easier when fewer technical demands are needed. Live chat or text suits shorter check-ins, quick coaching, or times when typing feels easier. These options aim to make therapy flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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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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