Mia Medina, Psy.D.
Mia Medina received her doctoral degree at William James College (formerly Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology) in 2005. She then completed the post-doctoral fellowship program at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. Mia served as a psychologist and supervisor at Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital in Boston and as adjunct faculty at William James College. In 2012, she relocated to Istanbul, Turkey, where she continues to be on the faculty at Bilgi University. Mia has been in private practice since 2008, first in Boston, MA and then in Istanbul, Turkey. In 20017, she founded the Center for Psychodynamic Therapies in Istanbul with Jak Icoz. Her articles and papers have dealt with trauma, the patient-therapist relationship and therapeutic boundaries.
Zeynep Kızılkaya, MA
Zeynep Kızılkaya received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from McGill University in Canada and completed her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology at Istanbul Bilgi University. She is an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist by the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT), while her clinical work has primarily been informed by a psychoanalytic approach. She is currently pursuing her psychoanalytic training with the Istanbul Psychoanalytical Association for Training, Research and Development (PSİKE Istanbul), under the auspices of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). Alongside her clinical practice, she serves as a clinical supervisor in the Clinical Psychology Master’s Program at Istanbul Bilgi University. She continues to provide psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy to adults in both Turkish and English, as well as psychoanalytically oriented supervision to fellow clinicians, at the Center for Psychodynamic Therapies.