Ana Knežević Petrović

BSc in Defectology

Ana Knežević Petrović

Ana Knežević Petrović is a master defectologist – a special educator. She has been engaged in psychological and psychotherapeutic work in the last five years. With her spirit and cheeriness, she encourages teamwork and brings ease and inspiration to her associates and patients.

She is a gestalt therapy educator through which she builds and fulfills herself by nurturing relationships with patients and their families. Ana’s specialty is working with addictive disorders and in addition, she is perfecting her knowledge in fields of resilience.

For Ana, therapy is incomplete without nature and animals, so she advocates practicing of pet therapy, or the involvement of animals in the healing process. Ana is an animal rights fighter and a vegetarian.

Ana’s source of energy, satisfaction, and motivation to face professional challenges is an active lifestyle, staying in nature and respect for personal processes.

Languages she speaks

Srpski jezik prica na klinici VIP Vorobjev Engleski jezik prica na klinici VIP Vorobjev

Diagnostics
Through specialist diagnostics, our doctors assess the degree of addiction, as well as the extent of its effects and personality disorders in patients. Through interviews, we motivate patients to turn to the treatment and the better side of life and, after thorough consultations with the closest relatives of the patient, together we create a strategy for their returning to a normal life.

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Psychotherapy
An expert team of psychiatrists and psychologists develops various psychological and social (psychosocial) strategies for treatment, each offering a different level and type of support to people recovering from drug or alcohol addiction. Treatments are often mixed and tailored to suit individual needs so that excellent results could be reached rapidly in the most effective way.

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Post-treatment support
Psychological monitoring of patients and the help we provide after their leaving the clinic is very important because of the specific individual psychological reaction to entering an environment new to them. The goals of psychological support are directed at continuously helping our patients and building confidence and respect, giving encouragement and morale-boosting for a healthy and normal life.

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Detoxification
At VIP Dr Vorobjev Clinic, the detoxification process is carried out painlessly (especially heroin detox), and the individual needs of patients are a priority for us. In detoxification, during the first 24 hours, the patient is under the constant supervision of our intensive care specialists. VIP Dr Vorobjev Clinic is equipped according to ICU standards (system for monitoring vital functions, oxygen therapy and respirators, automated drug delivery devices, laboratory).

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Treating mental addiction
Drugs are the cause of major disorders in neurochemical processes for emotion regulation. After detoxification, patients often experience various mood swings, depression, sleep disorders, uncontrolled thoughts, and drug craving. Ibogaine therapy is a powerful treatment that helps the patient recognize his mistakes and return to a natural and normal life. Ibogaine greatly helps in cases where methadone, family, or psychologists yielded no effective results.

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