Psk. Cem Gümüş

After my specialization training, in 2010, I carried out intensive individual and group psychotherapy studies with veterans and disabled soldiers diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), who had experienced military traumas and had severe depression and anxiety problems, in the Trauma Psychiatry service of Ankara GATA Psychiatry Department in 2010.

Towards the end of my one-year duty in the psychiatry clinic, I prepared a detailed psychotherapy training program and handbook that could be applied at the individual and group level to be used in trauma treatment training in the clinic and in the TAF in the following years, based on my experience in the therapy of military traumas.

After my job here, I worked as a psychotherapist in two different branches of a private hospital between 2011 and 2012, and worked with many clients with complaints especially in the areas of depression, anxiety disorders, anger problems, couple-family relationship problems and sexual dysfunctions. In addition to these studies, I also saw clients within the Institute of Behavioral Sciences (DBE).

Between 2012 and 2019, I worked as a psychotherapist in a psychiatry and psychological counseling center in Teşvikiye Nişantaşı with my clients who had many different types of problems.

Currently, I continue my consultancy, education and academic studies.

HOW DO I WORK WITH THE APPROACH?

I follow a path where I use Positive Psychology Methods and EMDR together with my clients who come for psychological support. In this model, we are able to deal with psychological difficulties both in-depth with unconscious factors, and in an active and productive way with an understandable language.

In my consultancy work, I adopt an approach that is appropriate to the experiential and process-oriented model. In your normal life, other people find it difficult to give you open and honest feedback.

I attach great importance to providing awareness-raising feedback to my clients based on the information I see and receive in the session.

Since I see it as a problem that the expert listens in a passive position or has a very didactic approach in the sessions, I try to use a balanced approach and whatever path the person needs at that moment.

In order to keep my knowledge up to date, I follow the current psychotherapy and personal development literature abroad and regularly attend trainings for specialists.

Apart from consultancy work, I also provide training for personal development. We see that the field of personal development is not given enough importance, especially by psychologists, psychological counselors and psychiatrists in our country. There are many people who have no obvious problems but need to improve their quality of life. Therefore, we focus on services for this gap in our work at our center.

With psychotherapy, the field of personal development can be addressed in a consistent and scientific framework. Especially with the effect of Positive Psychotherapy and EMDR approach, I continue to work on developing a needs-oriented EMDR model (protocol), articles and books for personal development.

MY SPECIAL INTERESTS:
- Trauma, EMDR and Flash Technique
- Positive Psychology and Quality of Life
- Self-improvement

I completed my psychology undergraduate education at Istanbul University in 2007 and I also studied in the field of Psychological Counseling and Guidance as a second department (minor).

In 2009, I completed the Okan University Clinical Psychology master's program with a full scholarship.
In addition to my university education, I attended many long-term psychotherapy trainings at home and abroad.

During my psychology undergraduate education, I did an internship at the Adolescent and Young Adult service of Bakırköy Psychiatric and Neurological Diseases Training and Research Hospital.

During my graduate education, I held regular therapy sessions for depression and anxiety problems in the clinical unit for about two years. In this period, one of the first cognitive behavioral therapy specialists in our country and who trained many teachers, Prof. Dr. I was Perin Yolaç's assistant.