Depth-oriented therapy for people who have achieved a great deal — and still can't shake the feeling that it's never quite enough.
What is standing in between you and a life that finally feels like yours?
You Found This Page for a Reason.
That gap between what you show the world and what you carry privately — it's real. It's exhausting. And it doesn't close on its own, no matter how much you achieve, improve, or push through.
I work with people who are intelligent, self-aware, and genuinely stuck. People who can analyze their patterns clearly and still can't seem to change them. People who have built impressive lives and still feel oddly invisible inside them.
If that sounds familiar, you're in the right place.
About Me
I'm a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I work with individuals, couples, and families navigating the kind of pain that doesn't always have a clean name — the chronic sense of not-enoughness, the loneliness inside high-functioning relationships, the weight of cultural identities that don't fit neatly into one category, the trauma that shows up in the body long after the event is over.
I am bilingual, providing therapy in both English and Turkish. I work with LGBTQ individuals and couples, and with professionals navigating multicultural and bicultural identity — the particular complexity of belonging to more than one world and feeling fully at home in neither.
My clinical approach is integrative and draws on advanced training in:
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) — EMDR Certified — for experiences that live in the nervous system, not just in memory. When something happens that changes how you see yourself or feel safe in the world, EMDR works at a level that conversation alone often can't reach.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) — for couples and individuals who want to understand not just what happens in their relationships, but why — and how to change the patterns that keep them stuck in cycles of pursuit, withdrawal, and disconnection.
Gottman Method (Level 1 & 2) — research-driven couples therapy that targets the specific behaviors that erode trust and connection over time, and builds the ones that repair it.
Attachment-Focused Trauma Therapy — because who you are in relationships is not a personality flaw. It's a strategy you developed in response to what you experienced. Understanding that changes everything.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) — not as a relaxation technique, but as a disciplined practice of learning to be present with difficult internal experience without being controlled by it.
My Approach
I don't believe therapy should feel like being managed. Therapy that works feels like being met.
I bring warmth and directness in equal measure. I'm not going to reflect your questions back at you indefinitely or offer reassurance over what's real. I'm also not going to pathologize your pain or reduce your complexity to a diagnosis. I'm going to be honest, curious and consistent — because that consistency is often the thing that was missing.
I work with the whole person: your history, your nervous system, your relationships, your cultural context, your inner life. That's what depth-oriented therapy means in practice. Not just coping strategies — actual change.
When appropriate I use EMDR for traumatic experiences that haven't responded to talking alone, Emotionally Focused Therapy for relationships that have lost their safety, attachment-focused work for patterns that started long before you had words for them, and mindfulness practices that ground you in the present without bypassing what's real..
