Yeditepe University– Psychology (BA)
Yeditepe University – Guidance and Psychological Counseling (BA)
Marmara University – Graduate School of Social Sciences, Clinical Psychology (MA)
Area Of Expertise: Individual (Adult)
Therapy Approach: Schema Therapy
Yağmur Türkyılmaz has graduated from Yeditepe University, Department of Psychology with high honors. She has received her graduate degree from Marmara University’s Clinical Psychology Master’s program by completing her dissertation titled ‘The Relationship Between Childhood Traumas and Dating Violence: The Mediating Role of Emotion Dysregulation and Ambivalent Sexism’. During her graduate studies, she has received schema therapy training and supervision from Prof. Dr. Gonca Soygüt Pekak and clinical psychologist Dr. Esra Ersayan.
She has supported the communication flow in the headquarters office of the Purple Roof Women’s Shelter Foundation between 2016-2021, worked in the organizations where the foundation had booths, in the social responsibility days of universities, and also took part in the psychological support project of the foundation. Additionally, she has volunteered at Sulukule Volunteers Association in the ‘Benim Okulum Benim Haklarım’ project organized by Sabancı Foundation in 2018.
She completed the training and supervisions provided by the International Society for Schema Therapy (ISST) and received the title of ISST-approved Schema Therapist. She continues supervision studies for becoming an advanced level schema therapist.
She follows the continuous trainings given by the ISST, as a requirement of being a Schema Therapist. Accordinlgy, she has completed the following trainings: Re-scripting by Imagery, by Prof. Dr. Gonca Soygüt Pekak, When the Body Speaks Instead of the Word: Working with Somatization in Schema Therapy by Dr. Bahar Köse Karaca, and Experiential Techniques in Schema Mode Studies by Dr. Esra Ersayan. She has also participated in the Experiential Techniques workshop conducted by Prof. Dr. Sevinç Göral Alkan. In addition to schema therapy trainings she has also attended the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Basic Theory Training by Prof. Dr. Hakan Türkçapar. She is a member of the Turkish Psychological Association, Schema Therapy Association, and International Schema Therapy Association.
