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Psy. Ekin EREN TOKSOY

Clinical Psychologist

University

Psychology Department, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Boğaziçi University

Expertise

Doğuş University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychology Specialization

Department

Adult Mental Health

Interested Age Range

18-65

Branch

Istanbul – Kadikoy – Goztepe

Biyografi

During her undergraduate education, she completed her internship at Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Psychology Unit. Again, during her undergraduate education, she worked as a project assistant in a study evaluating the cognitive functions of psychosis patients and their first-degree relatives at Marmara University Hospital.

During her graduate education, she conducted psychotherapy studies with adults, adolescents and families at Doğuş University, Psychology Education Center (DUPEM), and completed her clinical internship with intensive supervision. She took part as a volunteer trainer in the “Innocent Prisoners” project, jointly run by Doğuş University and the Freedom for Children Foundation, in providing “Effective Motherhood Skills” training to convicted mothers. In addition, she participated in the Filial Therapy (play therapy) trainings given by Assoc. Dr.  Volker Thomas and applied Filial Therapy to mothers and children under supervision in the Filial Therapy applications carried out within the scope of the project at the same university.

In 2010, she worked as a volunteer psychologist in consultation studies with adults and adolescents with advanced cancer and chronic diseases, and patient relatives at Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Consultation and Liaison Psychiatry Unit.

She worked as a psychologist and institutional counselor in a private preschool education institution for a while, with family and children, in the fields of education and personal development as well as family problems. Later, she worked as a specialist clinical psychologist at Üsküdar University NP Istanbul Hospital, worked as a child and adolescent psychologist in the inpatient psychiatry service and outpatient clinic.

Ekin Eren Toksoy, who mainly works on anxiety disorders, depression, personality disorders, adolescence mental problems, family communication, coping with stress, working habits, planning and time management skills, uses cognitive existence, cognitive behavior, biofeedback and filial therapy techniques in her studies. . In addition, she is a ‘Positive Discipline’ Parent Educator certified by the Positive Discipline Association founded by Jane Nelson & Lynn Lott. She speaks english, spanish, german and italian.

Ekin Eren Toksoy, who studied part-time at the state conservatory in addition to her school education and is closely interested in various branches of art, believes that the skills acquired and developed in childhood have a very important role in self-realization in the future.

Ekin E. Toksoy has completed the Basic Existential Analysis and Logotherapy training approved by the Viktor Frankl Institut (Vienna, Austria) and continues the further studies (supervision) of this training.

She has been continuing her professional life as a Clinical Psychologist at Istanbul Madalyon Psychiatry Center since October 2013.

Education

  • High School: Private Doğan High School
  • University: Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology
  • MSc: Doğuş University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychology Specialization

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