Meet Our New Team Member: Boosting Social Support with Mental Health Expertise
Meet Our New Team Member: Adriana Zdrentu, Psychologist
Adriana Zdrentu has joined the Casa Ioana team as the new psychologist. With over 7 years of experience in the social sector, she has primarily focused on supporting children from disadvantaged families together with their parents. Her professional journey includes five years working within the NGO sector, followed by two years of independently supporting a group of ten children, aged between 5 and 16.
Her primary focus has always been on developing trust-based relationships with beneficiaries, ensuring they receive the essential emotional support needed to build a solid foundation together. Her activities have centered on several key areas, including: supporting education and preventing school dropout; sports activities (guiding children towards swimming and karate); personal development (workshops, therapeutic stories, elements of yoga, reading clubs, and artistic activities); and facilitating access to medical services (dentist, orthodontist, general analyses, ophthalmology, cardiology, ENT, endocrinology).
Through her practical work with children, Ms. Zdrentu observed the critical importance of the parents’ role and the living environment on the children’s development, behavior, and choices.
She joined the Solace-CEE project in November, deeply impressed by the holistic vision used to approach the beneficiaries—people experiencing homelessness. She highlights the care and attention given to supporting them in their journey towards self-empowerment and starting a new life chapter.
Ms. Zdrentu is now eager to see how this complex project will be applied in practice and the positive effects it will bring to people’s lives. She firmly believes that any seed of health and empowerment sown in people’s souls has the chance to grow and develop, ensuring they have the support to evolve toward a better and brighter life.
