EDUCATION
She started her undergraduate education at Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Psychology in 1989 and completed it in 1993. After graduation, she completed basic training, especially in psychoanalytical, psychodynamic, narrative and cognitive behavioral approaches. She received supervision from instructors who adopted this approach for 8 years. During this period, she completed clinical battery and test training. At the same time, she completed her theoretical and practical training on play therapy.
During her undergraduate period, she completed her internship at Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine Department of Psychiatry inpatient service and Bakırköy Mental and Neurological Diseases Hospital day hospital occupational therapy workshops and neurosis inpatient services.
She worked as a psychologist and responsible manager in various institutions. She continued as a child-adolescent therapist and family counselor at the counseling center, which she co-founded in 2000, until the end of 2019. She currently sees clients at a center with which she has a contract.
In 2018, she started working as a child and adolescent therapist and family counselor at Ibni Haldun University Psychotherapy Application and Research Center (IPAM) and continues to work in this position.
She completed Brief London -DBE joint certified solution focused therapy training in 2011, DBE (Emre Konuk) EMDR Level 1 in 2012, and DBE (Emre Konuk) EMDR Level 2 training in 2015.
Along with basic EMDR training, EMDR with difficult cases by Udi Oren, complex trauma, PTSD and EMDR by Dr. Berk Murat Ergün, non-verbal communication early trauma protocol "when there are no words" by Katie O'shea, early trauma protocol by Sophia Barna She completed performance improvement and EMDR training with adolescents.
Between 2012 and 2014, she completed her EFTA-approved "couple and family therapy" certified training from Bilgi University and received the title of family counselor.
In 2016, she completed the recognition and application training of "a performance improvement program for exams" (PERGEL) from Dr.Olcay Güner.
After the 1999 Marmara earthquake, she worked as a volunteer therapist in the field for 6 months. She voluntarily took part in many charity activities in the last 7 years. (Atatürk airport explosion, the pandemic process that also affected our country in 2020 and the earthquakes centered in Kahramanmaraş on February 6, 2023). She took part in various social responsibility projects related to children and still continues to do so.
WORKING AREAS
Short-term dynamic therapy, solution-focused therapy, art therapy and EMDR are among the methods she uses.
The topics she particularly works on include exam anxiety, anxiety disorders, trauma, depression and grief processes, peer bullying, phobias, and family relationship problems.
Her areas of interest include performance improvement in adolescents with the EMDR method and story and fairy tale therapy with the ER protocol (early trauma non-verbal communication 0-3 years old) method.