Ljudmila Petrovic, RCC

• Ljudmila's Rates

  15 min Phone Consultation
  No Cost

  Individual Counselling

  50 min
  Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
  Standard: $150
  Generous: $155+

  75 min
  Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
  Standard: $195
  Generous: $200+

  Relationship Counselling

  50 min
  Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
  Standard: $190
  Generous: $195+

  75 min
  Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
  Standard: $250
  Generous: $255+

  Hormone Readiness Assessments
  Two 40-minute sessions: $300 per assessment

• Ljudmila's Availability

  Location: Mount Pleasant, Virtual

  Days and Hours:

  • Thursday 2:00pm - 7:00pm (Mount Pleasant and Virtual)

  • Friday 8:00am - 1:00pm (Mount Pleasant and Virtual)

• Approaches in Therapy

  • Trauma-Informed

  • Narrative Therapy

  • Parts Work

  • Somatic

  • Intersectional Feminist

  • Anti-Oppressive

  • Queer Theory

  • Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)

  • Attachment Theory

  • Harm Reduction

  • Relational Cultural

  • Sex Therapy

  • EMDR

• Licensures and Degrees

  • Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), BC Association of Clinical Counsellors

  • Certified Sexologist, American Board of Sexology

  • Masters of Arts in Counselling Psychology, Simon Fraser University

  • Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University

• Selected Professional Training

  • IFS Training, Dave Phillips

  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1, Gottman Institute (in progress)

  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy – Level 2 - Gottman Institute (in progress)

  • San'yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Online Training, Core Mental Health, Provincial Health Services Authority

  • Indigenous Gender Diversity: Creating Culturally Relevant and Gender-Affirming services, Provincial Health Services Authority

  • Intensive Sex Therapy Program, University of Guelph

  • EMDR Virtual 5-Day Intensive - EMDR Consulting

  • Restoring the Circle, NWAC

  • The Sexually Competent Therapist: Integrating Sex Therapy Into Your Practice, Allura Sex Therapy Centre

  • Exploring BDSM & Kink as a Healing Practice for Trauma Survivors, Modern Sex Therapy Institute

  • Reclaiming Pleasure Workshop with Kai Cheng Thom, Embody Lab

  • Integrative Trauma Treatment Masterclass, Janina Fisher

  • 5 Day Narrative Therapy Practice Training, Vancouver School of Narrative Therapy

  • Introduction to EFT with Couples, Vancouver Couple & Family Institute

  • Male Survivors: Preparing The Way For Meaningful Intervention, BC Society for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse

  • Telepsychology Best Practices 101: Clinical Evaluation and Care – Cultural Competencies, American Psychological Association

  • Compassionate Inquiry Masterclass, Gabor Mate

  • Centered Accountability: A guide through the body, Accountability Mapping

  • Understanding And Treating Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma, Zur Institute

  • Integrative Somatic Parts Work Certificate, Embody Lab (in progress)

Bio

Ljudmila is a queer, cis, white, able-bodied woman born in the former Yugoslavia and raised on the unceded and occupied lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Ljudmila’s work with individuals focuses largely on survivors of sexualized and gender-based violence, as well as more broadly working with reclamation of body, self, and identity after trauma of displacement and/or collective, intergenerational, or institutional trauma (such as religious or medical trauma).

Ljudmila also works with the complexities of identity, including sexual and gender identity, cultural, ethnic, and/or religious identity - particularly in working to create cohesive identity when facets of identity may feel at odds or identity may feel fragmented (e.g. the intersection of sexuality and religion or culture). She is also passionate about supporting the unlearning of harmful aspects of masculinity. She provides relationship counselling with folks of various relationship structures navigating various relational issues, including trauma-impacted couples and folks navigating non-monogamy.

Ljudmila uses an integrative approach shaped by an anti-oppressive, feminist, and relational-cultural framework. She uses elements of narrative therapy, feminist therapy, parts work, EFT, attachment theory, and somatic approaches - as well as drawing on any number of other modalities to meet clients where they're at. She believes that healing is expansive and strives to honour and integrate the ways that clients have already been surviving and healing, be that through community, art, activism, or ancestral practices.

Ljudmila aims to build a space that is collaborative and honours the client as an expert in their own life. While our therapeutic space is one that can gently hold trauma, pain, and grief, Ljudmila also believes in a more expansive approach that creates space for your whole self, including joy, humour, pleasure, rest, and playfulness.

Outside of her counselling practice, Ljudmila does organizing work for queer Balkan people in diaspora. She believes in rooting in joy, which for her means reading, building community, baking and cooking, spending time in nature, and watching movies with her cats, Wayne and Garth.

Ljudmila is standing with her shoulders slightly angled left and smiling with her teeth toward the camera. She has wavy brown hair that ends just past her shoulders. She is wearing a blue long sleeve blouse, small hoop earrings, and a nose ring. She is standing in front of trees that are blurred. Photo credit ​www.roughclub.ca/

Ljudmila Petrovic

(she/her/hers)
Associate Counsellor
RCC

In-Person, Virtual, and Phone Sessions

Ljudmila is not currently accepting new clients, waitlist available!

If you are interested in connecting with Ljudmila, please contact ljudmila@collective-healing.ca. For existing clients, self-book here.