Ayçe İdil Tandoğan
Clinical Psychologist Ayçe İdil Tandoğan offers counseling services in both English and Turkish to adolescents and adults, grounded in the existential approach, and is actively engaged in the field of art therapy. Her therapeutic method focuses on helping individuals better understand themselves and discover their potential. She also provides individual counseling services with her team through the consulting center she founded.
Tandoğan completed her undergraduate studies with honors in Psychological Counseling and Guidance at Bahçeşehir University. She earned her master’s degree in Clinical Psychology at Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom. Her graduate research focused on gender differences in the grief processes of parents who have lost a child, through which she developed in-depth expertise in this area. Her training also granted her eligibility for accreditation by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
She began her professional career in the UK, working full-time at Dorset Mind, where she conducted individual therapy sessions on issues such as depression, loneliness, anxiety, self-esteem problems, grief, and loss. Currently, she serves as a Senior Caseworker at Victim Support in London, where she works with children and adolescents affected by domestic violence and abuse, providing individual therapeutic support. Alongside this role, she continues to support clients through private therapy sessions.
Her areas of expertise include anger management, anxiety disorders, depression, grief and loss, personal awareness, migration experiences, communication and relationship issues, and family dynamics. Committed to ongoing professional development, she is currently receiving training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) from the Beck Institute (USA) and continuing her education in Existential Analysis at the Istanbul Existential Academy.