Uzm. Psk. Şeyma Altınel

During her undergraduate education, she took part in various projects, internship experiences and volunteer work. In 2013, she provided psychological support to families with low socio-economic status and their children at the Mustafa Kemal Community Center through individual interviews.

In the same year, she made individual therapeutic relationship-based interviews with the families of disabled children at the Private Aysu Special Education and Rehabilitation Center and provided relationship-based support for the special education of children with autism, mental retardation and down syndrome. In 2012, she observed the styles of establishing relationships, communication and coping skills by establishing relationships with children through play at Özel Sevgi Bahçesi Kindergarten.

SOYAÇ- Maltepe University Practice and Research Center for Children Living and Working on the Streets worked with young people aged 10-18 with a traumatic past with a peer-based intervention approach. He actively worked with young people in various workshops and she participated in the weekly supervision trainings given by Asst. Assoc. Dr. Özden Bademci.

Organized in 2013 with the cooperation of SOYAÇ and Istanbul Development Agency within the scope of the project; She took part as a speaker at the symposium "In the Light of Studies Carried out to Support Children Living on the Street: University-Society Cooperation". Traumatized Youth: She presented her observation and research presentation titled 'Learning by Making Relationships' to the participants.

She completed her 1-year internship within the scope of her master's degree at Balıkesir University Health Research and Application Hospital. As part of the internship, communicating with patients in the open ward and being an observer in group therapies with patients, actively participating in and observing patient interviews, conducting individual interviews with the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approach with supervision support, applying objective tests (MMPI personality test, Catell 3A-2A intelligence test) ) have worked on their assignments.

She worked as a psychologist for 3 years at the Health Corner Nutrition and Diet Counseling Center, which was established in 2015.

Currently she continues to support her clients in the clinic she established in Balıkesir.

Clinical tests authorized to apply:

• MMPI,
• Catell 3A Intelligence Test,
• Catell 2A Intelligence Test,
• Alexander Practical Ability Intelligence Test,
• Porteus Mazes Intelligence Test,
• Good Enough Test, AGTE,
• Gesell Progress Test,
• Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test,
• Metropolitan School Readiness Test,
• Bender Gestalt Perception Test,
• Benton Visual Memory Test,
• Draw A Person, Standardized Mini Mental Test

Areas of expertise:

• Psychological Support for Dietary Problems
• Anxiety Disorders
• Obsessive compulsive disorder
• Depression
• Social Phobia
• phobias
• Panic Disorder
• Loss and Mourning
• Marriage and Relationship Problems
• Adolescent Psychology and Problems
• Exam Anxiety in Adolescents (15 years and over)

She graduated from T.C. Maltepe University, Department of Psychology as a high honor student in 2014.
In 2014 she accepted to T.C. Maltepe University Clinical Psychology Master's Program. By completing his specialty thesis, Dr. Qualified to become a Clinical Psychologist.

She completed the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy supervision training, which she received 84 hours of theoretical training given by Assist. Assoc. Dr. Kuntay Arcan.
TRAINING AND CERTIFICATES RECEIVED
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Supervision- Assist. Assoc. Dr. Kuntay Arcan (2016)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training (84 hours)- Assist. Assoc. Dr. Kuntay Arcan (2014-15)
Schema Therapy Training (42 hours) - Dr. Sevda Yellow Iron (2014-15)
Turkish Psychological Work and Guidance Association- Short-Term Solution-Oriented Counseling Approach (20 Hours)- Assist. Assoc. Dr. Nevin Dölek (2014)
Kadir Has University- Family Counseling Education Certificate Program (450 hours) (2013-14)
Kadir Has University- Family Mediation Training Certificate Program (50 hours) (2013-14)
Association of Clinical Psychology Institute- Objective Tests Training (2012-13)
Emotion Regulation of Emotionally and Physically Abused Youth: Anger and Violence- (Undergraduate Thesis) (2014)
“The RELATIONS OF EATING DISORDERS SYMPTOMS IN WOMEN WITH PERCEIVED PARENTING FORM, EMOTION REGULATION DIFFICULTY, PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLNESS AND EATING ATTITUDES”- (Master's Thesis) (2018)
Maltepe University- Change For Traumatized Children: Therapeutic Approaches That Work for Street Children International Symposium. Felicity de Zulueta, Dr. Hilary Kennedy and Sylvia Reyes (2012)
Trainings Given by SOYAÇ- “Intervention to Crisis and Working with Metaphors”- Prof. David HERPOELAERT and Psychoanalyst Karel de Grote Hogeschool (2012)
“Children Living and Working on the Streets” Conference- Kahraman Eroğlu, Deputy Mayor of Şişli, Former Provincial Director of SHÇEK Istanbul (2012)
Trainings Provided by SOYAÇ - Conference on the "Biography of Three Young People Who Lived on the Streets for a Period: The Effect of Early Mother-Child Relationship on the Process of Starting to Live on the Street" - Burcu Kılıç (2012)