Ivana
Kolaković

About Ivana

I am a Registered Psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. I am deeply passionate about supporting you in your process of sitting with and naming all that is painful and scary within you and around you. Moreover, I am passionate about seeing you step into your own power and resilience and beauty.

In addition to my private practice, I work as a Registered Psychotherapist with Homewood Health’s Crisis Management Services team, providing clinical support to organizations following traumatic incidents across GTA.

I completed 5-year Psychotherapy training at the Gestalt Institute of Toronto, 3-year Somatic Experiencing training for trauma resolution (Montreal), and I hold a MA in Women’s and Gender Studies (Carleton University, Ottawa).

I work from a humanistic, embodied and evidence-based framework and have additional trainings in CBT therapy, sex therapy, psychoanalytic theory and peer-based crisis response/suicide care strategies. For several years, I worked as a supervisor at the Distress Centre of Greater Toronto and have rich experience in frontline crisis work, supporting folks who struggle with suicidal ideation/attempts, self-harm, substance use and isolation, that are the direct result of marginalization, poverty and/or abuse they experienced at some point in their lives.

I was born and raised in Kraljevo, Serbia (former Yugoslavia). Throughout my childhood and young adulthood, I was exposed to different forms of violence and to the abundance of love and creativity and care. This is where I learned almost everything I know about life: that the beauty persists amidst suffering, and that every human life is precious and complex.

While Ivana is not currently accepting new clients, this page offers a clear sense of her clinical background, therapeutic orientation, and leadership within the practice.