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About My Clients
I am a licensed therapist (LMHC) based in Brooklyn, providing individual therapy and relationship therapy in English and Turkish to adults of all cultures and backgrounds residing in New York State. My theoretical approach is lies heavily on psychoanalytic thought (“talk therapy”), though I believe in collaboratively tailoring the best form of therapy with my clients depending on their unique needs and expectations.
My Background and Approach
As an internationally trained clinician, I have extensive experience in working with multicultural populations. Prior to establishing my private practice, my therapeutic work mainly centered around providing emotional support to survivors of severe trauma as well as immigrants and asylum seekers in Turkey, with particular focus on symptom reduction and eventual readjustment to daily life. Though I currently work with a wide range of populations and clinical issues including anxiety and depression, I specialize in multicultural struggles, life transitions, relationship issues (family, romantic, etc.), emotional expression, and trauma.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Our emotions are often deeply rooted in our childhood. Our past has an impact on the development of our personality and in shaping our relationships. It is not the most difficult experiences that bring suffering but our tendency to disregard our feelings that arise from such experiences. Therapy is supportive journey where we work together to better understand ourselves, our experiences, and repeating patterns. At the very heart of our work, we explore the experiences that have brought us to where we are while building bridges between our past and present to break cycles that are often painful to us. In this journey, we often talk about our experiences and explore unconscious motivations behind our reactions. By exploring, we allow ourselves the space for developing insight from within and expand the range of our understanding of our very beings. Making new meanings and narratives about who we are and who we have been helps us feel heard and felt for, and makes us free.