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Özden Sevil Gülen

Özden Sevil Gülen graduated from the Middle East Technical University, Department of Guidance and Psychological Counseling in 2019 with a high honor degree from the doctoral program. His doctoral thesis is on the interaction of family, school and individual factors in the resilience of adolescents in low socio-economic districts. She graduated from Doğuş University ClinicalPsychology master’s program in 2012 and from Boğaziçi University Guidance and Psychological Counseling Department in 2009 with high honors.

Since 2011, she has been conducting psychotherapy studies with children and adolescents and counseling parents.

She also continues psychotherapy work with adults. As of 2019, he continues to work at the Mono Individual Development, Training and Counseling Center, of which he is the founder.

In 2014, she worked as a trainer in the ANKA Child Support Project, which was prepared in cooperation with the Ministry of Family and Social Policies and aims to psychosocial support children staying in institutions.

In 2012, she taught Child Psychopathology and Therapy at Okan University’s Clinical Psychology Master’s Program.

After the 2011 Van earthquake, she received the Psychological Trauma Intervention Training given by the Turkish Psychological Association and worked in the field.

In 2011, she provided psychological support to victims of domestic violence in the Emergency Helpline, which serves as part of the Hürriyet Newspaper’s End Domestic Violence Campaign.

Between 2010 and 2011, she worked as an assistant in the adaptation studies of the Second Step Social Emotional Skills Development and Violence Prevention Program developed by the Committee for Children to Turkey.

Between 2009 and 2010, she worked as a psychological counselor at a private primary school.

Between 2009 and 2010, she organized group work for children and adolescents living at risk in İzmir Alsancak Child and Youth Center and provided individual psychological counseling services.

During her master’s education, she received training on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approach and completed her psychotherapy internship at Doğuş University Psychology Education Center by performing psychotherapy and psychological assessment practices with adults and children, and taking super vision.

In 2020, she completed his Experiential Play Therapy advanced training consisting of individual supervisions, group supervisions and seminars, and became a “Certified Experiential Play Therapist” approved by the Family Psychological Services (Association for Play Therapy).

She received the Filial Therapy training given by Volkar Thomas in 2011, and she practiced Filial Therapy with children and mothers within the scope of a project on the effectiveness of Filial Therapy.

Psy. EMDR Eupore approved EMDR I. and II. given by Eva Zimmerman. Level training and supervision; “EMDR Education with Children and Adolescents” by Joanne Morris-Smith; Strategic Family Therapy training and supervision; Solution Focused Therapy training and supervision; has completed. He received “Field Trauma Specialist Training” approved by Figley Institute. He completed the “Training on Projective Evaluation of Children’s Drawings” by Rorschach and Projective Tests Association.

She works with children and adolescents on anxiety and fear problems, emotion regulation difficulties, behavior and adjustment problems, psychological trauma and developmental problems, and also continues her psychotherapy studies with adults. He uses experiential play therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, EMDR therapy, and psychodynamic therapy approaches in his work. He continues to work with a super vision for different psychological counseling approaches. He is a member of Turkish Psychological Counseling and Guidance Association, Turkish Psychological Association and EMDR-TR Association.

Within EbeHane, together with Ebe Gözde Çavuş, its content includes adaptation to the changes that come with life with a baby, couple relationship after birth, 0-6 month’s developmental periods and the baby’s basic developmental needs, breastfeeding, sleep, eating, games, etc. It provides “Preparation Training for Life with Baby and Parenting”, in which the topics of parental approaches that support development in processes are discussed.