Clin. Psych. Didem Çengel

Clin. Psych. Didem Çengel

Didem Çengel graduated from Okan University in 2016 with a double major in Psychology and Sociology.

During her undergraduate studies, she founded a gender studies group and conducted research in the fields of gender and sexualities, femininity, masculinity, male and female performance, body, trauma, violence, abuse, and postmodernity.

During her undergraduate studies, she received training in group therapies such as creative drama and dance and movement therapy.

In 2015, she completed solution-focused therapy training. Having completed her pedagogical formation training in 2016, Didem Çengel worked in a private school between 2016-2018 on issues related to school-age problems in adolescents, adolescence, peer bullying, exam stress, romantic relationships in adolescents, future anxiety, and identity construction processes. To work with parents on issues such as parent counseling and family life cycle, parent-child communication, and parent-child bonding, she completed her Family Counseling training at Marmara University in 2017. She continues to work with couples on issues related to pre-marriage, marriage process, and family relationships, conflicts, and communication. In 2017, she completed Beck-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CBT) training.

In 2018, she was accepted into the Clinical Psychology Master's program at Okan University. During her master's studies, she completed Trauma Psychotherapy training with Assistant Professor Dr. Özlem Gokmoğol.

The same year, she started working as an Education Coordinator at the Mindfulness Institute and began taking Mindfulness-Based Trainings. She participated in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living, Mindfulness Skills in Individual Therapy, and Mindfulness for Children and Adolescents trainings, coordinating these trainings.

In 2020, she participated in an online Transactional Analysis training workshop program.

In April 2021, Çengel began working as a Research Assistant at Okan University, focusing on adolescent, adult, and couple therapy. She is a member of the Turkish Psychological Association Istanbul Branch. Currently, she is continuing her training in psychodrama and art therapy.