You are seeking relief from emotional pain and suffering that is getting harder to bear and to cope with on your own. You are willing to explore what is going on and what you can do about it. What is bothering you can be an emerging issue related to a major life change, a choice, a loss, or a recurrent issue that has been with you on and off at different points in your life.

I am here to listen to you, to get to know you, and to understand what you are going through. Together we will think, feel, imagine and be curious in an emotionally attentive safe space. Over a period of time, we will engage in a new, thoughtful, and creative conversation about what has been going on. Our goal during this time period is to strive towards a healing process that will deliver you an increased self-awareness, a sense of mastery, growth, success, and fulfillment. You will then experience an overall relief from the burden of the pain and suffering that brought you to talk therapy in the first place.

I offer individual talk therapy to adults from a psychodynamic perspective across a wide variety of issues ranging from life transitions, loss, grief, trauma to mood issues (anxiety, depression), dysfunctional personality and relational tendencies to severe mental illness (bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia). In addition, I work with a range of women's issues (body image, self esteem, infertility, postpartum struggles, sexuality and relationships, parenting demands) and with people seeking treatment for struggles related to immigration, acculturation, or challenges of biculturalism.

Additionally, I also offer individual and group clinical supervision to mental health professionals.

Over the years, I have worked with a diverse group of people in treatment in terms of race, ethnicity, culture, class, and sexual orientation, and welcome all in my practice that embraces and promotes a social justice commitment.

As a bilingual, bicultural therapist, I am happy to conduct all above-mentioned clinical services also in Turkish.

Training

Initially trained in Istanbul, Turkey, as a clinical psychologist, I am a graduate of the City College Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology, as well as a graduate of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) as a psychoanalyst, a fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Expanding on my clinical experience for a decade in Istanbul, I interned and remained as part of the Psychology Department staff at North Central Bronx Hospital for fifteen years as a clinician and senior supervisor of psychology graduate students. Later in my hospital career, I was the Director of the North Central Bronx Hospital's Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) working primarily with severe persistent mental illness at a day hospital setting. For the past four years, I have been part of a group private practice, again in the roles of a clinician and a senior supervisor.

In addition to my clinical work, I am also interested in applied psychoanalysis and have written and published about the use of psychoanalytic ideas in exploring a variety of topics ranging from the arts to social issues.