Andrej Todorovic

My experience in the field of psychotherapy and counselling is based in treating and supporting different kind of marginalized groups and cultures, including early adults and late adolescents with transitional and relational difficulties, as well as persons who suffer from strong anxious, depressive and traumatic hardships, personality disorders, work-related and relationship issues. My working experience in Belgrade was mostly focused on providing psychological help and support to the marginalized groups like refugees and asylum seekers from the Middle East. Being exposed to the stories of the people, who were forced to leave their homes, including the experience of growing up in the society and environment which passed through many social crisis in the last decades, highly sensitized me for work with social trauma and traumatic experiences. I became deeply introduced how trauma could have harsh impact on psychological health and functioning, as well as an importance in terms of the fact that the suffering could be a chance for development and progress. Along with that, I worked in my private psychotherapeutic practice with mostly local population. These years of experience in my hometown working with both local and foreign populations have expanded my inner abilities to work as an international psychotherapist in intercultural environment of Berlin. Since 2021 I continued with my psychotherapeutic practice in Berlin. I became more aware how the change of environment from local to foreign, both in terms of personal and other people's experiences, has a huge and significant psychological impact. Psychotherapeutic work in the new international environment in correspondence with the previous experience in my hometown, has challenged me to advance the approach, aiming to search for universality in psychological suffering and at the same time to be more sensitive to specific individual attitudes when it comes to psychological issues.