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Expert Psychologist Individual and Psychodrama Therapist and Trainer / Pregnancy and Childbirth Psychotherapist / No Wishes Childbirth Preparation Trainer / Lamaze Certified Childbirth Preparation Trainer / Active Birth Trainer / HypnoBirthing Trainer Mother Baby therapist She holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Istanbul University and a master's degree from Keele Uni. She is a psychodrama therapist and trainer. She is the founder/president of Istanbul Psychodrama Institute (1996)www.istpsikodrama.com.tr, Istanbul Birth Academy (2010) www.dogumakademisi.comkurucularından and Hand in Hand for Birth Association (2015) www.dogumicinelele.com, vice president of ISPPM www.isppm.ngo international prenatal and perinatal psychology and medicine association. Founder and board member of Prenatal Alliance Association www.prenatalalliance.org He is a co-founder of the Prenatal Sciences Partnership and is currently on the board of The Hall of Honour. www.prenatalsciencespartnership.org She is also the representative of ICI (International Birth Initiation) in Turkey. She has been working as an individual and group therapist for 36 years. Since 2010, she has been attending births with midwives and doctors as a Birth Psychologist in the Keşkesiz Birth Team and continues her support not only for the family but also for the birth teams. Her goal is to ensure that every woman experiences a preferred pregnancy, birth and postnatal process under the guidance of healthy mother-baby criteria and that everyone is provided with uninterrupted support under all circumstances, including family and teams. For this purpose, she initiated the process of supporting the births of babies who died in the womb, such as Bereavement Doula Training, for the first time in the Hand in Hand for Birth Association. She has completed the Erasmus Plus Project on midwifery education together with Germany and Greece. She makes presentations as a speaker at international and national conferences and congresses and she presents psychology in Water Birth Trainings every year. She has dedicated her life and work to births, births and all birth supporters. In the process of parent and baby therapy after birth, it gives babies the space to tell their birth stories in their own language. She is an active member of APPPAH (prenatal psychology and health association), ISPPM (international prenatal psychology and medicine association), EAP (european association of psychotherapy), FEPTO (european association of psychodrama institutes), ENCA (european association of birth associations), EDN (european doula association). In 2019, she was awarded the "Trainer Award" of APPPAH. Various articles, book chapters (Water Birth, Obstetric Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation: Psychology in Pregnancy, Labour and Postpartum, Empowering Women in Maternal Care: Psychological Changes, Needs and Recommendations in Pregnancy"; "Birthing Models on the Human Right Frontier: Birth with No Regret", "Your Story in the Journey of Motherhood: Empowerment in Pregnancy, Birth and Postpartum Period: Awareness of Transformation, Spiritual Changes in Pregnancy, Suggestions". Organisations and associations of which he/she is a member; - BPA (British Psychodrama Association) - ASGPP (American Association of Group Psychotherapies and Psychodrama) - EAP (European Association for Psychotherapy) - FEPTO (Federation of European Psychodrama Training Institutes) - TPD (Turkish Psychological Association) - ISPPM (International Society for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine) - APPPAH (American Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health) - Lamaze International Association of Childbirth Educators