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Ezgi KOCAKUŞAKLAR
PSİKOLOG

Ezgi KOCAKUŞAKLAR

Çalışkan, yaratıcı ve çok disiplinli. Hırslı, büyümeye devam etme konusunda istekli ve alanımın organizasyonel kısmını keşfetmeye istekli. Bir psikolog olarak insan faktörünü işimin merkezine koyarak öğrenmek, geliştirmek ve vizyonumu genişletmek beni heyecanlandırıyor.

Hard-working, creative and multidisiplinary. Ambitious, eager to keep growing and willing to explore organizational part of my field. I am thrilled to learn,improve and expand my vision through putting human factor at the heart of my work as a psychologist.

EDUCATION

Bergamo University, Italy

Clinical Psychology for Individuals, Families and Organizations

2022-2024

Yeditepe University, İstanbul

Psychology (Double Major)-CGPA: 3.46 2017-2020

Yeditepe University, İstanbul

Psychological Counseling and Guidance-CGPA: 3.23 2015-2019

Balıkesir Atatürk Anatolian Health Professions High School

Nursing 2009-2013

INTERNSHIPS

Individual Counseling Practice

Yeditepe University (Feb 2019- Apr 2019)

Career Counseling Practice

Yeditepe University (Nov 2018- Feb 2019) Conducted career counseling sessions with group and individuals. Worked through career counseling assesment tools. In present, I keep having career counseling sessions with clients online.

Intern Psychologist

PINUM Psychology and Education Center (Oct 2018- Feb 2019)

Intern Psychological Counselor

Kemal Berktan Secondary School (Feb 2019- May2019)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Education & Development Specialist

Tepe Defense and Security Systems Industry A.C., Full- time Bilkent Holding, İstanbul (July 2022- Sep 2022)

Evaluating employees’ skills and performance quality and monitoring the process with HR team collaboration

Organizing training sessions specific to various roles in the company

Preparing all instructional materials

Doing research on educational needs of all departments

Vice Manager, Psychologist

Tuzla Çağlayan Mental Healthcare Center, İstanbul, Full- time

(May 2021-July 2022)

I was in charge of supporting and improving well- being of patients with severe mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar disoder, psychosis etc.) through managing group and individual sessions, preparing the psychosocial program

Providing trainings to caregivers and nurses for increasing the quality of their work (how to deal with stress, people with severe mental illnesses, communication and motivation etc.)

Auditing caregivers’ and nurses’ work, giving insights and feedbacks through meetings regularly

Executing the orientation training for nurses Job interviews with nurses and caregivers

Nurse

Earlier in my career I started working as a nurse and I had worked throughout my university years for emergency services, workplace safety and healthcare consulting companies. (2013-2019)

I could say that it added me some critical skills in early ages such as;

Building strong communication,crisis and stress management skills, critical thinking and observation skills,

Being solution-oriented, resilient and teamwork oriented It added me the value of self-development, professionalism, multitasking skills and accountability as well as being a compassionate person towards people in professional manner.

VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCES

Founder&President

Yeditepe University Education and Research Student Club (YUEREC), between 2017- 2019

I have established the community and managed it for 2 academic years continuously.

Creating and managing more than 30+ events which include social responsbility projects for increasing the quality in education in Turkey through fundraising and collaboration with companies and other student clubs, conferences related to counseling and education to raise awareness , workshops for supporting young people’s career paths.

I had a life changing opportunity by having this experience and it improved my leadership&management skills and taught me how to be proactive, multitasking and collaborative effectively.

Volunteering in Abroad

AEGEE in Bergamo (2023-Present)

Volunteering for European youth. Content creating through the cultural events for international young people in Bergamo.

AIESEC in Morocco, Fez (2 months, 2018)

Teaching English to the economically disadvantaged kids. Having a strong teamwork, collaborating local people, leading a diversed group and creating a safe & peaceful environment to keep project function well. It reinforced my global mindset.

AIESEC in Egypt, Cairo (2 months, 2017)

Art workshop for kids with cancer at a public hospital. Helping children to express their emotions through art and getting in touch with their families. Having collaborators from all around the world helped me to grow a global mindset.

CERTIFICATES

Family Counseling Certificate

by Yıldız Technical University 2020

C1 Level English Training

by Bayswater College in London/England 2019

1st Place Winner of Knowledge Contest in Counseling

by İstanbul Aydın University 2019

LANGUAGES

English – C1 Level, Advanced Italian- A2 Level, Beginner Spanish- A1 Level, Starter Sign Language- Starter Level

PROGRAMS

SPSS, Jamovi: Intermediate Microsoft Office Programs: Advanced Canva: Advanced

HOBBIES/INTERESTS

Dancing&Singing

Grease the Musical 2019-2022

Latin American Sportive Dances

Yeditepe University Dance Club 2018-2022

Traveling & Visiting Museums

Getting knowledged about other cultures and being a global person is my passion