A space where you can stay close to yourself while living far away.
Turkish-language online psychological counseling for Turkish adults living abroad, especially in Germany, focusing on identity, belonging, loneliness and adjustment.
Migration is more than changing countries.
Living in a new country requires reorganizing many areas of life, from everyday habits to the way we form relationships. A new language, different social rules, a different work culture and the relationships left behind can over time become a significant psychological burden.
Looking successful and well adjusted from the outside does not mean that you are not experiencing loneliness, alienation or exhaustion inside. Sometimes a person feels like a stranger in the country they live in, and changed when they return to Turkey.
Psychodynamic work looks at these experiences not just as a current adjustment problem but together with the person’s past, relationships and identity development.
The psychological layers of life abroad
Every migration experience is different. Instead of offering ready-made adjustment advice, counseling focuses on understanding your life story and your recurring patterns.
Belonging and identity
Living between two cultures, never feeling fully at home anywhere, and bringing the different parts of your identity together.
Loneliness and isolation
Being unable to form deep bonds even when people are around, a lack of friendship and the feeling of not being seen.
Cultural adjustment
The tension of adapting to new social rules, working life and ways of relating (acculturation stress).
Expression in your mother tongue
The difficulty of expressing feelings in a foreign language and the sense of expressing yourself only incompletely.
Family and distance
Relationships with the family left behind, longing, guilt and the responsibility of caring from afar.
The second-generation experience
Questions of identity and relationships that come from growing up between the culture at home and the culture outside.
A regular counseling relationship that continues even when you change countries.
In your own language
You can speak Turkish — the language in which you express your feelings most naturally.
From wherever you are
When you move to a new city or country, you do not have to change psychologists.
Regular and secure
Sessions take place on a set day and time over a secure connection that protects your privacy.
The distance changes; the framework of counseling does not.
In the first session we look at what brings you to counseling, your expectations and the time difference between your country and Turkey. Later sessions are scheduled for a regular day and time.
Your needs and the framework of our work are clarified together.
Sessions usually take place once a week.
Suitable time slots are discussed according to the country you live in.
If you live abroad, being understood does not have to be far away.
Request an introductory online session in Turkish. Let’s plan a time that suits your country and time difference.
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