Ms Didem Sagiroglu
Family Therapist
“A therapist working with young people and couples in their identity and relationship issues in order to assist clients to bring about transformational change in their personal "iceberg" : feelings, learned rules, expectations, to achieve emotional maturity to align self-worth with congruent communication with others.”
About Me
I am a Family Therapist and Family Counsellor based in Esentepe, Istanbul, Turkey. I help individuals and families through life transitions, behaviour and conduct problems, forgiveness work, relationship challenges, and personal development. I offer psych and diagnostic assessments, relationship counseling, online therapy, and counseling.
Approach
I am an individual, couple, and family therapist. My primary training is in Transformational Systemic Therapy model developed by Virginia Satir. A client unit can be an individual, or a couple’s relationship, or family interpersonal interactions. I facilitate to assess the client unit layer by layer, to discover how the underlying selves are experienced and which aspects should be developed with regards to the issues the clients present. These can be emotions, other emotions or self-judgement when our feelings conflict with our upbringing experiences or societal norms, perceptions, the way in which we make sense of life in our values, beliefs, assumptions, rules to follow, and expectations of ourselves and others.
When client(s) is/are operating from an inner true self based on awareness and acceptance, lasting chances can occur. In this model’s approach we focus on interpersonal communication patterns to assess individual approaches to different situations or people. When being understood is difficult or scary we may use "survival stances" to protect ourselves. In therapy, I will assist you to achieve personal “congruence”, ie matching your communication to your thinking and feeling, processed and comprehended regarding your unique past, to gain congruence in the client unit. Well being is a means of making meaningful and authentic connections, rising from each individual’s self-worth and recognition of the other’s self-worth. Additional therapy goals are for clients to become better decision makers and be more responsible in their life choices.
