About Dr. Mila

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Dr. Milena Spasojevic is a Clinical Psychologist with extensive experience in trauma and a vested interest in cultural diversity. She maintains registration to practice psychology in the provinces of Ontario and Alberta, and has been trained and practiced in California, Oregon, and Minnesota.

Dr. Mila has worked with Wounded Warriors Canada (WWC) and Wayfound Mental Health, where she provided psychological services to public safety personnel and their families. At Wayfound, she served as the Chief Clinical Officer of the Before Operational Stress Program (BOS), an empirically-supported resiliency program that was developed in conjunction with WWC. The aim of BOS has been to mitigate the impact of operational stress on first responders. Dr. Mila primarily worked out of the Calgary headquarters while also having spent some time serving as the Director of Clinical Operations of Eastern Canada in Toronto.

Earlier in her career, Dr. Mila served as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary in the School and Applied Child Psychology Department where she taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels. During her final term teaching, Dr. Mila was nominated for a Teaching Excellence Award via the University of Calgary Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Committee for her work in creating and teaching an undergraduate honors course in the Psychology Department on Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Dr. Mila completed a Doctorate of Psychology (PsyD) degree in 2016 at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, California, an institution accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA). Her doctoral dissertation topic was, "Ethnic identity and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress in Serbian adults living in Serbia." Dr. Mila completed her doctoral practica in the San Francisco Bay Area and an APA-accredited doctoral internship at Morrison Child and Family Services in Gresham/Portland, Oregon in 2014.

Prior to her move to California, Dr. Mila completed a Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) Masters at St. Cloud State University. She completed her MFT internship in St. Paul, Minnesota. She matriculated at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities by completing a Bachelors Degree in Psychology with minors in Biology and African & African-American Studies.

Dr. Mila has always maintained an interest in how cultural, systemic, and biological factors interrelate to contribute to any given psychological presentation.