I completed my degree education at the department of Psychology at Bilgi University with full scholarship in English and with an honors degree. During my undergraduate education I did internships in various institutions and at the same time, I voluntarily participated in various projects within the country and abroad. Owing to this process, I gained rich experiences in multicultural environments regarding my professional life and many issues of international importance. I completed my master's degree at Bahçeşehir University at the department of Clinical Psychology. The tile of my thesis was 'Living with Contamination Obsessions and Cleaning Compulsions in the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study'.
In my thesis, I studied how patients diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) experience the Covid-19 pandemic, how their symptoms affect them and how they make sense of this process. One of the most important conclusions I have reached is that being understood and listened to without judgment has a psychologically healing effect on the person. In addition, I had also the opportunity to discover that every person is unique in their own way even though they experience the same psychological state. During my clinical internship at the French Lape Hospital, I had the chance to communicate with patients with different experiences and observe their clinical processes.
Currently, I provide online and face-to-face individual therapy sessions to adults at the Face to Face Therapy Center. My psychotherapeutic approach is psychodynamic. In psychodynamically oriented therapy, the focus is on the client's unconscious materials and how they make sense of their experiences in order to analyse the issues brought to the therapy in more depth. Through this authentic relationship between the client and the therapist, the person is able to process and restructure various patterns and conflicts in their lives instead of trying to get rid of the symptoms.
Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and
Marital Therapy Centre