Zeynep Sarıkaya

She completed her undergraduate education in psychology in English at Işık University and graduated with honors. During her undergraduate studies, she supported research carried out within the school as an assistant research assistant and voluntarily observed patients in the psychiatry departments of various hospitals. She did her clinical internship at Bakırköy Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders Hospital. She studied at the psychology department of Cardiff Metropolitan University in England for a period of her undergraduate education through the Erasmus program. She wrote her thesis about the effect of test anxiety on performance. She then went on to earn a master's degree in mental health and psychological therapies from Queen Mary University in London. She started her career as a clinical support worker in the acute psychiatry service at Lewisham Hospital under the Ministry of Health in England. After returning to Turkey, she continued to work with school-age children as a psychological counselor in several schools. She continues to provide psychotherapy to young people and adults by adopting the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approach. She is a member of the Turkish Psychological Association and the British Psychological Association.