Clinical Psychologist Mehmed Seyda TEPEDELEN

EDUCATION AND WORK

He completed his undergraduate education at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Department of Psychology. During his undergraduate education, he did an internship in the psychosocial support unit of the Turkish Red Crescent. After his undergraduate education, he worked with refugees and asylum seekers in the psychosocial support unit of a non-governmental organization for 6 months.

He completed his master's degree in Clinical Psychology at Ibn Haldun University. In his graduation thesis, he examined voice hearing and related factors.

He worked as a clinical psychologist at Adıyaman IPAM, which was established in Adıyaman after the Maraş earthquake on February 6, 2023, for 6 months.

He is currently continuing his PhD education in Clinical Psychology at Ibn Haldun University.

TRAININGS RECEIVED AND WORKING GROUPS

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) training Module I (2019), Hakan Türkçapar
• CBT skills training (2020), BDPD
• Structured clinical interview for DSM I-II (SCID; 2020), BDPD
• CBT (Advanced Level) II. Module (2022-2023, continued).
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (2021), Hasan Turan Karatepe
• Metacognitive Therapy Training and Supervision Parogram for Application in Post-Traumatic Stress (2023), Clinical Psychologist Ali Engin Uygur
• Working Group- Tempting Challenges: Optimizing Exposure Therapy for OCD Using Inhibitory Learning (2022), Jonathan Abramowitz- 3rd CBT Congress with International Participation
• Working Group: Metacognitive Therapy in Depression and Rumination (2023), Costas Papageorgiou, The 53rd EABCT Congress, Antalya
• Working Group: Treating Obsessions: Research and New Methods (2023), David A. Clark, The 53rd EABCT Congress, Antalya
• EMDR Level 1 Training (2023), Institute Month (Clinical Psychologist Asena P. Yurtsever)

He works with cognitive behavioral psychotherapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and trauma-focused therapy approaches. He continues his sessions with the supervision given by Prof. Dr. Medaim Yanık, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vahdet Görmez, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hasan Turan Karatepe and Dr. Taha Burak Toprak.

WORKING AREAS

• Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Obsessive compulsive disorder
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Social Phobia
• Panic Disorder
• Specific Phobia
• Major Depression
• Couples Therapy
• Relationship Problems

Membership Associations:

Association of Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapies (BDPD)