Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a long-term process that helps individuals gain a deeper understanding of their inner world and relationships, while supporting their well-being.

It offers a space to recognize oneself within relationships and to experience a reparative form of relatedness.

Relational psychoanalytic approaches understand therapy as a co-created process of exploration within the therapeutic relationship, where both therapist and client participate in meaning-making. In this process, individuals begin to understand how past experiences shape their current relationships and develop more satisfying ways of relating.

Together, therapist and client explore how unconscious processes emerge both in everyday life and within the therapeutic relationship. This awareness allows for a new understanding of the past, as well as the transformation of symptoms and underlying inner conflicts, opening space for change in one’s personal narrative and relationships.

Merve Tekeli completed her high school education at Galatasaray High School.

She began her undergraduate studies in Industrial Engineering at Sabancı University and later shifted her academic focus toward the social sciences, continuing her studies in psychology and sociology.

She graduated from Nişantaşı University, Psychology Department, with a 3.97/4.00 GPA as the top-ranking student of her program, and completed a degree in Sociology at Istanbul University with a 3.75/4.00 GPA.

She was admitted to the Clinical Psychology Master’s Program at Istanbul Bilgi University, where she graduated with a 4.00/4.00 GPA as the top student of the Institute of Graduate Programs.

During her master’s studies, she focused on relational psychoanalysis and wrote her thesis titled “Enactment in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Quantitative Case Study on Ruptures and Repairs.”

Psychodynamic Psychotherapist | Adults

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