Clinical Psychologist Sümeyye KÖTEN GÜÇLÜ

EDUCATION

After completing her high school education, she went to New York state for university education. She started studying Early Childhood Education at Hudson Valley Community College, which is an internship-oriented department, and thus did an internship at a different school every semester. She also had the opportunity to work in schools with various educational philosophies. After graduating from her department, she opened her own nursery. While she lived in various states, she continued her education in the psychology departments of the University of New Mexico and Rochester Institute of Technology.

She also wrote articles on child education and development for 9 years, together with experts in her field, for Turkish-speaking mothers on the website annelik.org, which she founded.

She went to Pittsburgh in 2010 to continue her education at the Applied Developmental Psychology department at the University of Pittsburgh. She graduated from here in 2012 with high honors and a 3.9 GPA. She started her master's degree in the same department and completed her education in 2019.

Since it is an applied department, she worked with different age groups and teenage mothers in Pittsburgh during her undergraduate and graduate studies in different educational environments, especially on pre-school education, school preparation, tests applied to children, neuro-developmental disorders and play therapy. She took part in scientific research projects. She continued to work on projects that she started as an intern at the "Office of Child Development" research office of the department after graduation.

She is in the thesis phase of the Ibn Haldun University Clinical Psychology integrated doctoral program, which she started in 2020, and continues to actively see clients at the Ibn Haldun University Psychotherapy and Research Center (IPAM).

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) basic training, Association of Contextual Sciences and Psychotherapies, 2023
• Gottman Couple Therapy Level 1 and 2 training, 2023, The Gottman Institute
• CBT Advanced Theoretical Training, 2022-2023, Association of Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapies (Ongoing)
• PERGEL (Performance Improvement Program for Exams), 2023, Dr. Olcay Güner
• EMDR Level 1 Training, 2023, Institute of Behavioral Sciences
• Intolerance of Uncertainty Workshop, 2023, Prof. Dr. Aslihan Donmez
• CBT in Children and Adolescents, 2022, Assoc. Dr.Vahdet Görmez, POEM
• Couple Therapy Training, Prof.Dr. Medaim Yanık
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, 2022, Assoc. Dr. Hasan Turan Karatepe, Ibn Haldun University
• Traditionally Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy, 2022, Hooman Keshavarzi, Ibn Haldun University
• CBT Skills Training, 2021, Cognitive Behavioral Therapies Association
• Child-Centered Play Therapy, 2020, Dee Ray, University of South Texas
• Virtual Regulation: Using Play Therapy through Telehealth with ADHD, Tracy Turner, Brighter Futures Counseling, 2020)
• Advanced Psychopathology, 2020, Prof. Dr. Medaim Yanık
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Basic Training, 2020, Prof. Dr. Hakan Turkcapar
• Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents, Prof.Dr. Mucahit Ozturk
  
  

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In her sessions, she uses Cognitive Behavioral Theory (CBT), which she was trained in, as well as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Child-Centered Play Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) methods.

She provides child, adolescent, adult and couple therapy and provides therapy in Turkish and English.