Minela Hodzic , AASW

Minela Hodzic is an AASW social worker with ten years' experience who uses a person-centred approach. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and life transitions. Her manner is down-to-earth and compassionate, focused on practical steps that feel manageable.

Minela draws on attachment-based ideas to help people understand patterns that come from early relationships. She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to notice and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour. Sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to each person's needs.

People who have experienced domestic or family violence will find experience and understanding here. Minela aims to create a space where survivors can feel heard and start to rebuild safety and agency. She also supports those coping with separation, infidelity, or complicated family dynamics.

Practical skills are part of her work. She teaches grounding and mindfulness strategies, and helps people set small, achievable goals. Communication skills and managing strong emotions are common focuses in her sessions.

Minela also attends to wider pressures such as immigration-related stress, multicultural concerns, and isolation. She invites people to talk through shame, guilt, attachment struggles and the challenge of reconnecting to self-love. Her style is straightforward and respectfully warm.

How therapeutic approaches translate online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and motivation. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns formed in close relationships and how they affect current behaviour and feelings; it can help with trust, codependency and relationship cycles.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Minela collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level. She adapts techniques as therapy progresses so the approach stays useful and relevant to the person's needs.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, family, study or relocation while still working with appropriately qualified or registered professionals.