About Me
Clinical Psychologist Hazal Ergüneş completed her undergraduate studies at Koç University in 2018 with a double major in Molecular Biology & Genetics and Psychology. She obtained her master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology from the University of Lausanne in 2021. For her academic success and her master’s thesis titled “Hippocampus-based and striatum-based learning in the transitive inference task in young and elderly populations”, she was awarded the distinction prize.
During her undergraduate and graduate training, she participated in various scientific research projects in the fields of biology and psychology in Turkey, Germany, and Switzerland, and contributed to scientific publications. She gained research experience in Dr. Henrik Bringmann’s Sleep and Wakefulness Laboratory at the Max Planck Institute, in the RNA Biology Laboratory at Koç University, and at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research Center of CHUV (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois). She took part in projects addressing topics such as the intergenerational transmission of childhood trauma and self-regulation–focused interventions for adolescents with externalizing symptoms.
Following her master’s degree, she engaged in volunteer work with TEGV and ÇATED, and gained clinical experience at the Clinique des Rues Basses in Switzerland. She worked as a clinical psychologist at Koç University Psychological Counseling Service for 3 years. During his professional experience at the university, she conducted individual and group sessions with students and organized preventive and protective mental health programs. At the meantime, she provided psychotherapy for 4 years at the İnventa Psikoloji as a part of the team of Dr. Petek Batum Akgün.
She has completed Level 1 training in Interpersonal Psychotherapy (with Dr. Oğuz Omay) and Emotion-Focused Individual Therapy (with Dr. Senem Zeytinoğlu Saydam). She also participated in cognitive behavioral therapy trainings provided by Dr. Emel Stroup and the Beck Institute. Having completed the Schema Therapy Basic Training given by Prof. Dr. Gonca Soygüt Pekak and required supervision hours under Prof. Dr. İ. Volkan Gülüm, she became an ISST-certified schema therapist. Besides individual therapy, to be specialized in group therapy, she also received ISST-certified Group Schema Therapy Training delivered by Joan M. Farrell, Ida A. Shaw, and Sevinç Göral Alkan. At the same time, she successfully completed EMDR Level 1 and 2 trainings and supervision with Asena Yurtsever.
Currently, she practices at the office of Uzm. Dr. Alper Baş. She works with adults, providing both individual and group therapies in Turkish, French, and English and she uses EMDR, cognitive behavioral therapy, and schema therapy approaches in her practice.
Education and Certifications
- EMDR Level 1 and Level 2 Training by Asena Yurtsever
- Certification of Recognition, by the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST), as a “Standard Level Certified Individual Schema Therapist”
- Basic Level Schema Therapy training by Prof. Dr. Gonca Soygüt Pekak
- ISST-Certified Group Schema Therapy training by Ida Shaw and Joan Farrell
- Workshop on “Schema Therapy: Imagery Rescripting” led by Gonca Soygüt Pekak
- Training “Foundations of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy” at the Beck Institute
- Training “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression and Suicide “by Robert Hindman and Francine Broder (Beck Institute)
- Training “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Personality Disorders” by Robert Hindman (Beck Institute)
- Training “Beck-Oriented Cognitive Therapy Skills and Clinical Interview” by Dr. Emel Stroup
- Training “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Disorders” by Dr. Emel Stroup
- Level 1 Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training by Dr. Oğuz Omay
- Emotion-Focused Individual Therapy Level 1 Training by Dr. Senem Zeytinoğlu Saydam