So who am I?

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During my undergraduate education in Psychology at Özyeğin University, which I graduated as an honor student, I worked as a research assistant in various branches of psychology, such as Social and Political Psychology and Developmental Psychology, in the laboratories of our school. I had the opportunity to assist in a TÜBİTAK-supported research project conducted in our school's children's laboratory, examining the relationship between children's play behaviors and social-cognitive development, creativity, and language development. In the last year of my undergraduate education, after my 7-month internship at Kadıköy Florence Nightingale, I received a job offer in the "Patient Relations" position and worked at Kadıköy Florence Nightingale Medical Center for about 3 years. Within the framework of my duty, my ability to solve problems quickly and effectively by meeting with patients face to face and the positive and close relationship I established with inpatients of various age groups were very influential in my decision to advance my career in Clinical Psychology. As a result of this decision, I started my graduate education. Children, families and teachers with the "peer-based therapeutic approach through the establishment of attachment relationship" model developed for reintegrating children and young people at high risk into society in the "We are at SCHOOL: ÜSKÜDAR" project carried out under the umbrella of Maltepe University SOYAÇ (Children Living and Working on the Streets) since last year. I am working with. Last year, within the scope of the same program, I played a role in the implementation of the flexible resilience (RESCUR) program, which I contributed to the translation for the pre-school siblings of children at high risk, together with my other team psychologists. In addition, I am a volunteer psychologist at the Women's Solidarity Unit of the Kartal Municipality Life Quality Improvement Center and at the Muscle Diseases Association of Turkey (KASDER). I am working on my thesis on qualitative research with a somatic approach on the experiences of mothers whose babies were left in intensive care due to preterm birth.

 

Currently, I see clients under the supervision of the International "Body Psychotherapy" training provided by the NHS foundation of trust – Maltepe University SOYAC.

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