Psychologist Dilara Savaş online Talk

After completing her undergraduate education, she completed a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology at Bournemouth University in the UK with her thesis titled "The Effect of Mindfulness on Children and Adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Diagnosis," with distinction. During her Master's program, she worked as a research assistant on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Social Anxiety, and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) topics and co-authored an article with Dr. Simon Thompson titled "Clinical Research in Neurology," which was published. In addition to research projects, she participated in an 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction certificate program at the Bournemouth Mindfulness Centre.

After her Master's degree, she saw child/adult clients under the supervision of Dr. Hava Drummond at Psych-key Psychological Counseling Center in London, and also worked as a teaching assistant for typical/atypical developing children in British nurseries. She founded Psychologist London in the same clinic and provided psycho-education. She continued her volunteer work by providing informative activities related to women who have experienced violence at Imece Women's Center.

Then, she returned to Turkey and completed Child-Centered Play Therapy training with Evangeline Munns at the Institute of Behavioral Sciences. For a year, she worked as a Psychologist at Yörünge Special Education and Rehabilitation Center and conducted play-based autism prevention and intervention activities. Currently, she works as a lecturer in the Psychology Department at MEF University and provides special education and child therapy services in the areas of Developmental Disorders (Autism, Specific Learning Difficulties, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders), Dyslexia, Social Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Anger Management. She also conducts Mindfulness workshops and practices Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with adults.

Tests she administers include: Bender-Gestalt Visual-Motor Perception, Metropolitan School Maturity, Louisa Duss Psychoanalytic Story Tests, Beier Sentence Completion, and Ankara Developmental Screening Inventory. *She can provide counseling services in English.