About

My education, professional experience and approach to therapy.

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In brief

  • Clinical Psychologist
  • BSc in Psychology — Acıbadem University (2018)
  • MSc (with thesis) in Clinical Psychology — Istanbul Kent University (2022)
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy training to EABCT standards
  • Therapy for children, adolescents, adults and couples
  • In-person and online sessions in Çorum
Eda Erkan Alapala

Change begins with feeling understood.

I graduated from the Department of Psychology at Acıbadem University in 2018. I began the master's programme (with thesis) in Clinical Psychology at Istanbul Kent University in 2019 and completed it in 2022. In my thesis, I examined, with 324 adults living in Istanbul, the relationship between early maladaptive schemas formed in childhood and psychological resilience and coping skills.

Since 2019, I have continued my cognitive behavioural therapy training at the Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies (KDTD), delivered to the standards of the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT). In the field of work with children, I have completed training in Child-Centred Play Therapy, First Sessions with Children, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, and Analysis of Children's Drawings. Today I work with children, adolescents, adults and couples at my office in Çorum and online, and run employee psychology programmes for organisations.

My Approach to Therapy

I see therapy as a collaborative process carried out together by the client and the therapist. When working with adults and adolescents, I proceed on the basis of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, whose effectiveness is supported by research, and, drawing on schema concepts from my academic work, I try to understand together the roots of present-day difficulties in the past.

When working with children, I use the Child-Centred Play Therapy approach, in which the child can express themselves through play, their most natural language, and I support the process with parent sessions. I follow a way of working that puts each client's unique story and needs at the centre and is committed to confidentiality and professional ethics.

Education and Experience

  • Today

    Clinical Psychologist — Çorum

    Therapy for children, adolescents, adults and couples; in-person and online sessions; corporate programmes

  • From 2019

    Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies

    Cognitive Behavioural Therapy training (to EABCT standards, 4 years)

  • 2019 – 2022

    Istanbul Kent University

    MSc (with thesis) in Clinical Psychology
    Thesis: Examining the Relationship Between Early Maladaptive Schemas and Psychological Resilience and Coping Skills in Adults (YÖK Thesis No: 755790) · Full text of the thesis

  • 2018

    Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University

    BSc in Psychology

Certificates and Training

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Training — Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies (4 years, to EABCT standards)
  • Cognitive Behavioural Theory Training — Prof. Dr. Murad Atmaca
  • Child-Centred Play Therapy — Mehmet Teber
  • First Sessions with Children Training — Mehmet Teber
  • Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training
  • Training in Analysis of Children's Drawings
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