EMDR Basic Training Membership
Mindful Milestones Psychotherapy Inc
Monija completed her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at the University of New Brunswick and her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology at Yorkville University. She is the owner and Clinical Director of Mindful Milestones Psychotherapy.As a Registered Psychotherapist, Monija specializes in working with individuals and couples navigating attachment trauma, complex PTSD, PTSD, developmental trauma, and personality-related patterns, including Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Her work is deeply rooted in understanding how early relational experiences shape emotional regulation, identity, and patterns in adult relationships.Monija supports clients experiencing emotional dysregulation, fear of abandonment and rejection, identity challenges, chronic shame, perfectionism, dissociation, avoidance, and difficulty trusting themselves or others. She works extensively with individuals impacted by childhood sexual abuse, neglect, and relational trauma, as well as those navigating anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, psychosis, and grief and loss.In her work with couples, Monija focuses on the underlying attachment dynamics that drive conflict and disconnection. She supports couples experiencing communication breakdowns, recurring arguments, emotional reactivity, withdrawal, trust issues, infidelity and betrayal trauma, fear of abandonment within the relationship, and difficulties with intimacy and vulnerability. Her work helps partners move out of reactive cycles and toward deeper emotional connection, safety, and secure attachment. Monija also has a strong interest in supporting clients through military life transitions, complexities of parenthood, and LGBTQ+ related challenges.Her approach is trauma-informed and integrative, with a strong foundation in Attachment Theory and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). She draws from a range of evidence-based modalities, including Psychodynamic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), the Gottman Method, and Person-Centered Therapy. She is trained in several trauma-focused approaches, including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Trauma-Focused CBT, and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT).In sessions, Monija supports clients in exploring and reshaping the narratives they hold about themselves and their experiences. As an emotion-focused clinician, she helps clients process and transform core emotions such as shame, guilt, anger, and hopelessness, with the belief that each emotion carries important meaning and insight toward healing.
1049 3rd Street North , Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, R7A2M8
Phone: 204 7214064
Email: monija@mindfulmilestonespsychotherapy.com
Population Served:
Adult
Languages:
English
How EMDR is Offered:
Both online and in-person
Areas of Expertise:
Anxiety
Attachment Focussed
C-PTSD
Dissociation
Military
PTSD
Panic Attacks
Sexual Abuse
Social Anxiety