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.
F. Jak Icoz, MA
Jak completed his bachelor’s level psychology education at Istanbul Bilgi University and Vassar College, receiving his degree from the former. He was trained as a clinical psychologist at the same university. Besides his master’s degree in clinical psychology, he studied international management and management of health care systems at Liverpool University. Currently he continues his doctoral research at Middlesex University – New School of Psychotherapy and Counseling in the field of existential psychotherapies. He is on the faculty at the Clinical Psychology MA Program at Bahçeşehir University. He also teaches classes on existential psychotherapies and group therapy at Istanbul Bilgi University and at Hasan Kalyoncu University in Gaziantep. Jak founded Existential Academy of Istanbul in 2012, and Aletheia Books for publishing in 2014. In 2017, he established the Center for Psychodynamic Therapies with Mia Medina.
Zeynep Kızılkaya, MA
Zeynep Kızılkaya received her undergraduate degree in psychology from McGill University in Canada. She then completed her M.A level Clinical Psychology training program in Bilgi University. Zeynep worked in Universal Aksaray Hospital Psychiatry Clinics for two years. She mainly adopts psychoanalytic perspective in her work while having a training also in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She continues her clinical practice with adults in the Center for Psychodynamic Therapies.