About Marijeta
Dr. Marijeta Kurtin Valjin is a psychologist with 13 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, parenting challenges and depression. She works in clear, calm language and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Sessions are person-centred and non-judgemental, aimed at helping people feel heard and understood. She holds a PhD and a Masters in Psychology from the University of Adelaide and is registered with AHPRA.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in public and personal mental health settings and involvement in academic research and publication. Despite the academic work, she says therapy and direct connection with people is where she prefers to focus. In therapy she blends Client-Centred Therapy with evidence-based methods such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Mindfulness exercises and hands-on strategies are used to build coping skills and resilience. The therapist adapts tools to match each person’s goals and everyday life. Dr Kurtin Valjin has supported people dealing with chronic pain, long-term illness, disability, caregiver stress, and co-morbid mental health concerns.
She also offers help for issues like communication problems, commitment worries, eating and food-related concerns, isolation and blended family challenges. Sessions are offered in English and Croatian. She welcomes people of all identifications and orientations and aims to create a welcoming space where people can make steady changes at a pace that suits them.
Evidence-based approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most, accept difficult thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and life changes where avoidance has become a pattern.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and develop more effective coping with anxiety, depression and stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose or blend methods based on their needs, goals and preferences. Together they check what helps and adjust strategies over time.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls let you use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and suit brief check-ins, live chat can be quicker for scheduling or shorter conversations, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy into work, school and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Croatian
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