Dr. Yıldız BURKOVİK

She was born in Istanbul in 1962. She completed her primary education at Osmangazi Elementary School from 1968 to 1972, and her middle school and high school education at Kadıköy Girls' High School from 1972 to 1978. In 1980, She entered She Psychology department of Istanbul University Faculty of Literature and graduated in 1984. Between 1985 and 1988, She received training on psychological tests at Psychology Laboratory of Istanbul University Çapa Faculty of Medicine. Between 1986-1988, she worked as a psychologist in the Çekirdek Nursery Center for a period of one year and in the Tepebaşı Vatan Hospital Dialysis Center in the other period, and applied individual psychotherapy under supervision at certain periods. 

From 1988-1998 she worked as psychologist at GATA haydarpasa training and research hospital, She established the Psychology laboratory and at the same time gave training to trainee psychologists on psychological tests. She conducted individual psychotherapy and relaxation groups under the supervision of adults in the GATA Haydarpaşa Training Hospital and came from the outpatient clinic. In the same period, she made cancer groups together under the presidency of Specialist Dr. Murat Dokur in the hospital and started psychodrama training with his encouragement.

Starting from 1990, She received training in psychodrama under the German Überlingen Moreno Institute in Germany. After completing her basic training at Abdülkadir Özbek Psychodrama Institute," She continued to the Upper Stage Education Group in order to be entitled to the title of "Psychodrama therapist" and completed the 11-year training phase and submitted his thesis and received the "Psychodrama Therapist Certificate" for Protective and Therapeutic Spirit. He was entitled to independently practice Psychodrama in the field of health in individuals, families and groups.

1997-98 Fall semester,  She enrolled in master's degree program in the Social Sciences Department of the Institute of Forensic Medicine and in April 2000 she submitted her Specialization thesis titled "The Evaluation of WISC-R Test Results of Children Living on the Street and Runaway from Home".

Since 1998, She has been working as a Clinical Psychology Unit Supervisor at Memory Center. Her areas of expertise include stress management, anxiety disorders, panic attacks, social phobia, and fears. She has also received training from Dr. Kamran Fallahpour, one of tShe directors of "TShe Brain Resource Company," on Neuro-Bio Feedback and Rehacom techniques, which She uses when necessary. She is also an EFT 1-2 Association's Practitioner Certificate holder (by Dr. İnci Erkin - AAMET) and utilizes EFT in some psychological cases. Additionally, She has received training on Therapeutic Cards from Yehuda Shacham-Shulamit Niv (ESPCT) and uses them when appropriate.

She transferred to NPIstanbul Hospital as "Psychotherapy Services General Coordinator" in 2012 and still continues her individual and group therapies.
Since 2004, she has been the presenter of the PSİKODİR program, which is broadcast live on Sky Türk TV every weekday for 5 years.

Since the 2012-13 academic year, he has been giving "Group Psychotherapies" lectures to Üsküdar University Psychology Clinical and Applied Master's students under the chairmanship of Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan.

They worked with Psychologist Cumhur Avcil and Psychologist Ayşegül Soysal on “Persistence”, one of the modules in the New Youth Project, which is an Individual Rehabilitation Model affiliated with Üsküdar University and the Ministry of Family and Social Policies.

In June 2021, she completed the Social Sciences Institute Psychology PhD program and gave her thesis titled "The effect of respiratory biofeedback use in panic disorder on disease severity and quantitative electroencephalogram parameters".

In June 2021, She completed her Ph.D. program in Psychology at the Institute of Social Sciences and submitted her thesis.
 

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