About

Education

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Miray Evci is a dedicated psychotherapist who earned her BA in Psychology with honors from Özyeğin University, where she studied with a full scholarship. She furthered her education by completing Clinical Psychology MA at Bahcesehir University, graduating with high honors. Throughout this program, Miray received extensive psychotherapy training and gained valuable clinical experience.

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Psychotherapy Approach

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Miray's clinical approach is grounded in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Focused Therapy, EMDR Therapy, and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. Rooted in these evidence-based modalities, Miray also brings a compassionate approach to her practice, ensuring a caring and empathetic environment for her clients.

 

Professional Experience

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Miray has been actively contributing to her field since 2015. Her experience includes voluntary participation in field studies with children in disadvantaged areas, internships at Anchor Group in Bucharest, Romania, and the French Lape Hospital in Istanbul. Between 2018 and 2020, she worked as an assistant psychologist at Bude Psychotherapy Center and a psychodrama atelier.

 

Currently based in London, Miray provides face-to-face and online psychotherapy to individuals and couples. Her clinical interests include interpersonal and societal traumas, relationship problems, anxiety, depression, recurrent negative relationship cycles, individuation, self-confidence, anger control, obsessions, psychosomatisation, difficulties in emotion regulation and expression, familial problems, loss and grief processes, intimate partner violence, and migration psychology.

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Research Experience

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Miray's research background includes working as a research assistant for one and a half years during her undergraduate education. She contributed to a TUBITAK-funded study examining the mother-child attachment relationship. Miray received coding training for a scale measuring maternal sensitivity, conducted home observations and interviews with mothers and toddlers, and coded maternal behaviors.

 

In addition, she served as a research assistant in a study exploring the experiences of parents of children born with cleft lip and palate, conducting interviews with families at a dental hospital in Istanbul. Her master's thesis, which focused on examining posttraumatic growth among women who have survived intimate partner violence, was presented at the European Congress of Psychology at the Brighton Centre in 2023.

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Professional Trainings

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• MA in Clinical Psychology, Bahçeşehir University, 2022

• BA in Psychology, Özyeğin University, 2018

• 300-hour Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) Certification Program, Center for Trauma and Embodiment at JRI, (2024 - Present)

• Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga 20Hr Foundation Workshop, The Yoga Clinic (UK), 2024

• EMDR Level 2 Training - EMDR Europe Accredited, Institute Ay, 2024

• EMDR Level 1 Training - EMDR Europe Accredited, Institute Ay, 2023

• MMPI and Clinical Tests Training, Psychology Institute, 2021

• Immediate Stabilization Training, Gary Quinn, MD, Director of the EMDR Institute of Israel, 2019

• Complex Trauma Training, Dr. Sine Eğeci, 2019

• Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy Externship, Dr. Ting Liu, Dr. Senem Zeytinoğlu Saydam – ICEEFT, 2018

• Fundamental Traumatology Training, Dr. Çiğdem Yumbul, 2018

• Child Psychological Tests Training, Apamer, 2018

• Healthy Intervention Against Child Abuse Training, Human Sciences Association and PsikoLogos Scientific Research Center, 2016

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Conferences

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• The 26th John Bowlby Memorial Conference in partnership with the Clinic for Dissociative Studies Exploring DID: An attachment-based approach, 2023

• European Congress of Psychology, 2023

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Academic Studies

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• The Relationship among mothers’ socio-economic status, mentalization, maternal interpretations of toddler’s intentionality and maternal sensitivity.

Karabulut, D.H., Coruk, S., Eksioglu Z., Ozer, I.B., Guner H., Evci, B.M., Töz, N., & Arikan, G. (2018, July). Poster presented at the conference of International Association for Relationship Research Conference, Colorado, USA.​

• Posttraumatic growth among women who have survived intimate partner violence.

Evci, B. M. (2022). (Unpublished master’s thesis). Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey.​

• Posttraumatic growth among women who have survived intimate partner violence: A Qualitative Study from Turkey.

Evci, B. M. (2023). Oral presentation for European Congress of Psychology, Brighton, UK.

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Professional Memberships​

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• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP) - Membership number: 00990892

• The British Emotionally Focused Therapy Centre (BEFT)

• Turkish Psychological Association (TPD)

• Turkish Emotionally Focused Individual, Couples, and Family Therapy Association (DOÇAT)