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About My Clients
I help my patients work toward alleviating the symptoms they bring to therapy while also encouraging them to take an intimate look at what is contributing to their struggles so that long-term change becomes possible. While it is often hard work, psychotherapy can lead to a clearer and grounded sense of self and safer relationships with others.
My Background and Approach
I work with individuals typically in long-term intensive treatment, though I'm also available for brief consultations. In my practice, I utilize psychoanalytic psychotherapy. I am part of the teaching and clinical faculty at the Northern Illinois University, and currently attending the psychoanalytic program at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. I bring attention to the ways in which society shapes who we are, and I welcome clients of all identities, backgrounds and dimensions of culture. I practice in Turkish, French and English.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Intensive therapy may make it more likely that a person will undergo lasting change and resolve problems in various areas of life. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy helps individuals develop the capacity to endure ordinary everyday sadness: Treatment will draw you deeper and deeper into a confrontation with the parts of your self, exploring how unconscious factors affect present relationships. The treatment traces theses patterns back to their origins, considers how they have changed and shifted over time, and helps the individual to cope better with the realities of their current life.