About Marija Petrovic

As a physician with a Board Certification in Psychiatry and as a student of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Thought, I have come to realize that there are underlying complex emotions, stress or trauma that triggers a disease process.

Many traumatic experiences lead to many difficult emotions, thoughts, behaviors which most psychologists and psychiatrists try to address with a combination of psychotherapy and medication management. However some of the traumatic experiences or emotions may remain hidden from the clinician and may later show up a physical disease or as emotional reactions.

I completed my medical education in Germany and started my work experience started as Medical Student on an Detox Unit in Germany and I continued my Psychiatric Practicum in the South West of Germany on a small psychiatric unit in a medical hospital.

When I moved to Philadelphia, PA I continued my psychiatry residency training in Drexel University College of Medicine and after my graduation I have worked in many different settings:

from Correctional Facilities, Homeless Services, Private Practice, Community Mental Health Centers, Psychiatric Emergency Rooms, as well as in Kaiser Permanente Outpatient Group Practice.

Currently I am providing Telepsychiatry in MD Live.

Throughout my studies and my direct clinical experience I have come to realize that there are underlying complex emotions, stress or trauma that triggers a disease process, whether the disease process is physical, psychosomatic or psychiatric. Additionally I have also seen biological phenomena in psychiatric conditions and believe that neuroinflammation is at fault for many symptoms.

Addressing the hidden traumas and unblocking the emotions will provide the necessary inner healing and help you transform, if you are willing and open.