Psychologist Sümeyra GÜLAY

From 2013 to 2014, she worked as a psychologist at the Department of Disabilities, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. From 2015 to 2018, she worked as a psychologist at the Health, Culture, and Sports Department of Fatih Sultan Mehmet Foundation University. Between 2018 and 2019, she served as the coordinator of the Psychotherapy Application and Research Center at Ibn Haldun University for five months.

In 2015-2016, she was part of the core volunteer team of the Psychosocial Support Unit of Doctors Worldwide (Yeryüzü Doktorları). During this period, she was involved in organizing training, seminars, and meetings for volunteer mental health professionals. She also conducted psychological first aid training for field teams.

In 2015-2016, she worked as an assistant in the “Communication Skills Psychoeducation” program of the Psychological Trauma and Disaster Studies Unit at Kocaeli University. In 2020, she worked as an expert psychologist in the "Psychological Well-being Enhancement Project for Young People with Increased Anxiety About the Future During the COVID-19 Process" organized by İSTKA and Ibn Haldun University, where she conducted individual psychotherapy and workshop sessions.

She is currently continuing her education in the Clinical Psychology Doctorate Program at Ibn Haldun University. Her doctoral thesis focuses on dream work in the psychotherapy of traumatic loss and grief. Her main areas of interest and expertise include psychological trauma, loss and grief, adjustment problems, depression, anxiety disorders (panic disorder, social anxiety, phobias), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and the psychological context of dreams.

Psychotherapy Trainings:

• Narrative Therapy Training, Dulwich Center (Australia) & Psychology Organizations and Training Center (POEM)
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Training, Dr. Fatih Yavuz, Contextual Sciences Association
• EMDR Level 1 & 2 Training, Emre Konuk, Institute of Behavioral Sciences – EMDR Association
• Structured Clinical Interview for Mental Disorders (SCID) Training, Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapies Association
• Dissociative Identity Disorder Level 2 Training, Medaim Yanık
• Phenomenological Dream Self Model Training, Prof. Dr. Hayrettin Kara
• Psychological First Aid Trainer Training, Dr. Khallel Isa – Clinical Psychologist Murat Yüksel, International Medical Corps – Turkish Red Crescent
• Basic Training on Trauma and Early Intervention, Institute of Behavioral Sciences
• Cognitive Therapy Training, Dr. Emel Stroop, CBTISTANBUL