I completed my clinical internships at the Koç University Hospital Adult Psychiatry Department and also had the opportunity to observe various therapy techniques at Psychiatrist Dr. Çağla Bilgin Telatar’s therapy center.

During my undergraduate psychology education, I received practitioner training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Psychoanalytic Therapy, Schema Therapy, and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI).

Throughout my undergraduate and graduate studies in Psychology, I have focused extensively on Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. I am currently in my second year of the 'Personality Theories, Personality Disorders, and Dynamic Psychotherapy' training (7th term) conducted by Dr. Görkem Gökçelioğlu. As part of this comprehensive psychodynamic training, I have been undergoing weekly psychodynamic supervisions for the past two years.

I provide psychodynamic-oriented counseling services to adults in both Turkish and English, primarily in-person and online when necessary. I follow a psychodynamic approach that aims to analyze the underlying meaning of symptoms and the essence of existence—treating the individual as a whole, encompassing their past and present, as well as their mind and body.

Furthermore, I have begun my training in the Gottman Method Couples Therapy and am currently progressing through the certification process. To date, I have completed the Level 1 and Level 2 training in the Gottman Method.

Between 2026 and 2028, my professional development will continue with training in Existential Analysis at the Existential Academy of Istanbul (in affiliation with the Federation for Existential Therapy in Europe). This process will be invaluable, both for the progress I will make in my own personal analysis and for the profound contributions it will offer to my clinical practice.

In my therapeutic approach, I aim to integrate a sensitive perspective that responds to the individual's unique needs with both psychoanalytic and psychodynamic frameworks.

Main Areas of Practice:

• • Psychodynamic Individual Adult Counseling
    • Personality disorders
    • Eating disorders
    • Emotional Distress, Anxiety, Depression, and Feelings of Unworthiness
    • Recurring Relationship Patterns & Interpersonal Issues
    • Self-Perception, Self-Esteem, Boundaries, and Issues of Belonging
  • Alcohol and substance abuse
  • Trauma, grief and loss

• • Couples Therapy with Gottman Method
  • The Gottman Relationship Assessment
    • What do we assess?
      • The “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”: Criticism, Defensiveness, Contempt, and Stonewalling
      • The Positive-Negative Balance: Key Parameters in Relationship Dynamics
      • Emotional bond: trust, intimacy, and understanding
      • Conflict management: how do couples resolve their disagreements?
      • Repair skills: couples' efforts to heal the relationship

International and National Trainings Received

• International Trauma Studies Certificate Program – Clinical Level (7th Term), World Human Relief, November 2025 – January 2026
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training, Psych. Dr. Görkem Gökçelioğlu, Interdisciplinary Brain Research Association, 6th Term, September 2024 – June 2026
• Addiction Approach Training, general addiction, alcohol, substance, and nicotine addiction, February 2026
• Level 1 Couples Therapy with Gottman Method training
• Level 2 Couples Therapy with Gottman Method training
• Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans Certification (TCPS 2: CORE 2022)
• MMPI Practitioner Training and Certification
• Basic Training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Basic Training in Schema Therapy

Clinical Level Workshops

• Assessment and roadmap determination in addiction, June 2026
• Addiction and Psychodrama, Çağlar Şimşek, May 2026
• Grief Counseling and Managing Complicated Grief, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ersin Uygun, January 2026
• “Tree of Life and Power Drama – Collective Empowerment in Trauma with Narrative Therapy”, Prof. Dr. Nilgün Canel, January 2026

National and International Conferences and Seminars

• Addiction and Recovery Symposium, June 5–7, 2026
• French Lape Hospital, Alcohol and Substance Addiction Seminars in Psychiatric Nursing, May 8, 2026
• Bruce Fink, The Lacanian Object, May 2-3, 2026
• 1st International Congress on Trauma Prevention Studies, World Human Relief, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, January 9–11, 2026
• International Conference on Psychoanalysis and Complex Trauma (CF22), South African Psychoanalytic Clinics Johannesburg (JHB), 2025
  • Working Intra-Somatically to Enhance Psychoanalytic Treatment for Complex Trauma: Contributions From the Somatic Trauma Therapies, by David Levit
  • A Psychodynamic and Trauma-Informed Approach to Working With Trauma and Addiction Concurrently: Principles for Clinical Practice, by Emily Mercer (UK)
  • The Long Reach of Early Relational Trauma: A Case of Psychoanalytic Parent–Infant Psychotherapy, by Evrinomy Avdi
  • Occupied Territories: Cosmetic Surgery, Trauma and Hatred of the Body, by Alessandra Lemma
  • However Long It Takes: Why the Discrepancy in Provision of Care for Physical and Psychic Complex Trauma?, by Victoria Barker and Adam Burley
  • Developmental Trauma: Adult Psychotherapy Through a Developmental Context, by Zack Eleftheriadou