Márta Mészáros has always found the civilian issues concerning society extremely important so she started to work in the civilian society already at the very beginning of her academic studies and she has been doing it for more than 12 years now. Although she worked in several different fields she has always worked with people in disadvantaged situations. She worked as a consultant in a needle exchange program, as a supportive helper of people living with HIV and she also worked as a volunteer with young psychiatric patients in Italy. She has been working as a psychologist for 5 years now at Cordelia Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Torture Victims, which is an accredited member of the Copenhagen-based network, the IRCT (International Rehabilitation and Research Council for Torture Victims) and where she is dealing with the rehabilitation of people who experienced war traumas or asylum seekers who have been tortured in prison. Her work is to assist and support torture survivors and severely traumatized asylum seekers, refugees, and their family members arriving in Hungary. She provides individual support therapy sessions and with the help of her non-verbal therapist colleague she provides group therapy sessions too in open camps, detention centers and special center for unaccompanied minors. Learning family therapy methods after the University, she also supports family members during their family reunification process.
