Clarity for Complex Cases: An Introduction to the Unified Protocol
Your most complex cases rarely fit a single-diagnosis protocol. Comorbidity, cultural context, and shifting identities make casework layered and unpredictable. The Unified Protocol is one flexible, transdiagnostic approach that targets the emotional mechanisms underneath diagnoses, bringing clarity and consistency to cross-cultural work. This workshop covers UP essentials and how to apply them across diverse client populations.
What You’ll Learn:
- Why complex, international cases rarely fit single‑diagnosis protocols; and how a transdiagnostic lens changes the work
- The core principles of the Unified Protocol (UP) and how they target shared emotional mechanisms across diagnoses
- How to apply UP skills to cross‑cultural casework where comorbidity, mobility and identity shifts shape the clinical picture
- A flexible, modular framework that brings clarity and consistency to clients who don’t fit neatly into one category
Meet the Presenter
Ivana Mrgan is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and trainer with extensive international experience supporting individuals and organisations through cultural transitions, identity shifts, and complex emotional landscapes. Her work is grounded in openness, compassion, and a deep commitment to culturally sensitive practice – values shaped by seven years of living and working across multicultural settings.
Her approach integrates the Unified Protocol, Schema Therapy, and culturally adapted CBT, informed by her postgraduate research and 15 years of cross-cultural clinical practice. She works with individuals and organisations in English, Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian.