ela michele karahan

Ela Michele Karahan completed her undergraduate degree in Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and earned her master’s in Mental Health: Psychological Therapies from Queen Mary University of London. She has worked as a research assistant, an assistant psychologist in an addiction clinic, and a volunteer at a suicide crisis textline. Her interests include women’s mental health, self-compassion, positive psychology, mind–body connection, romantic relationships, and trauma, as well as the impact of culture, family dynamics, and upbringing on mental wellbeing.