Alma Centar

Milica Jakšić Kollárs

Alma Center founder, Master Psychologist and Psychotherapist

She completed her undergraduate studies and master’s degree at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, where she is currently attending her PhD studies.
She has been engaged in psychological counseling and psychotherapy since 2009 in diverse working environments.
In 2013, she became certified as a Transactional Psychotherapist. Her work is mostly influenced by the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Transactional Analysis (TA). She has been committed to continuous training in various therapeutic modalities: Transactional Analysis (TA), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), EMDR method and Schema therapy.
Additionally, she has many years of experience in human resource management from different companies in the country.
Milica is the author of the chapter “Transactional analysis and trauma” in the monograph “Trauma – our story”.
Moreover, she is the author and facilitator of various burnout prevention trainings and mindfulness programs that have been successfully implemented within her Alma center as well as other business environments.
In addition to running the Alma Center, she is engaged in individual and partner psychotherapy and mindfulness trainings. She provides face to face and online psychotherapy and psychological counseling with people over the age of 18, in Serbian and English. In her practical work, she is most experienced with adult clients who bring to the therapy room feelings of anxiety, depression, obsessive thinking and intrusive thoughts, challenges in partnership and intimacy, as well as traumatic experiences.

Phone: 0603972277
E-mail: jaksictmilica@gmail.com
alma@almacentar.com
Instagram: @almacentar

Jelena Sokić

Doctor of Psychological Science, RE&CBT counselor

She completed her undergraduate studies, master’s degree and PhD studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad.
She has been engaged in psychological counseling since 2016. In addition to individual counseling and therapeutic work, she has been working with people to cope their psychological crisis as well as with people feeling suicidal thoughts by providing emotional support to them.
Over the years, she has been continuously improving her skills in various therapeutic modalities, including: cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Gestalt therapy. Her counseling method primarily relies on the psychoeducational approach and the tools of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She is continually upgrading her therapeutic knowledge through the education and supervision of the Serbian Center for RE&CBT.
As a lecturer and researcher in an academic context, she has over 7 years of experience. She was a scholarship holder of the Professor Borislav Lorenz grant, attending a research internship program at the University of Ghent in Belgium. In addition to this, she is experienced in creating and conducting various workshops and soft skills trainings in the field of communication and motivation. Currently, she works as a Human Value Manager in an IT company in Novi Sad.
She is an associate of the Resilient platform for providing psychological support to employees.
In Alma, she is engaged in individual counseling and therapeutic work with clients and partner psychotherapy. She works with young people (over 16) and adults. The most frequent issues she addresses are anxiety, motivation, procrastination, as well as public speaking. Her sessions are face to face or online in Serbian and English.

Phone: 0652406016
E-mail: sokic.jelena@gmail.com

Marija Volarov

PhD Student of Psychological Science, counselor

She completed her undergraduate studies and master’s degree at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, where she is currently attending PhD studies. During her master’s studies, she spent a semester at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and in 2018, as a Fulbright scholarship winner, she spent nine months on a research student exchange at Ohio University in America.

She has been engaged in psychological counseling since the beginning of 2021. For many years, she volunteered in various NGOs, striving to empower vulnerable groups and young people through psycho-educational workshops and fighting against the stigmatization of people with mental health problems.

She has attended numerous educational and experiential trainings, inter alia, the training for the application of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and its techniques, basic and advanced course in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), course in the transactional-assimilative approach to psychotherapy, and course in couples counseling.

She finished her internship at the Clinic for Psychiatry, Clinical Center of Vojvodina, assessing and dealing with people who had attempted suicide. She is engaged in scientific research focusing on cognitive risk factors for the triggering anxiety disorders and disorder progress along with mood disorders in young people and adults. She (co)authored over fifteen scientific articles published in prestigious scientific journals.

She is currently employed as a teaching assistant at the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. Before that, she used to work as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Sport and Psychology-TIMS. For two and a half years, she worked as a Workplace Well-being Counselor within the Employee assistance program (Resilient, Novi Sad).

In Alma, she does individual psychological – counseling with young people (over 16) and adults, as well as couples counseling. Her sessions are in Serbian or English, face-to-face or online. She mainly addresses issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, emotion regulation, traumatic experiences, self-esteem, communication skills, and time management.

Telefon: 0691920448
E-mail: m.volarov@yahoo.com
Instagram: @m.volarov_psih.savetovanje

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