Deniz Akdolu

Deniz thrives in helping people improve their well-being through building psychological resilience. With more than 10 years of experience in practice; she has been working with anxiety, depression, trauma and PTSD, OCD, work stress, family systems, relationship problems, challenges faced by LGBTQ populations, and issues related to immigration and cultural adaptation. She also holds an educational background in epigenetics and neurobiology of stress, and tailors her practice around re-integrating the brain for ideal functioning on neurobiological and psychological levels. Her practice is comprehensive as she utilizes cognitive behavioural methods to work on feelings and maladaptive thoughts and somatic and meditative techniques for bodily symptoms while exploring relational dynamics through a psychoanalytical lens. Extension of her multi-disciplinary approach allows Deniz to build coping strategies that will work best for each individual and their story. Having spent most of her life in the beautiful American Riviera, she has completed high school in Santa Barbara, received her undergraduate diploma in Psychology from University of California and her master’s degree in cognitive behavioural therapy from University of San Francisco. She has served as a crisis counsellor, long-term therapist and school therapist in numerous organizations in the United States and in Turkey and has worked with individuals from diverse populations and cultural backgrounds. She also has been delivering online therapy sessions to clients from all continents to this day.