Insightfulness in Parenting: A Vital Practice
How past issues, attachment styles, and the transgenerational trauma of caregivers impacts parenting; and what can be done about it.
Ms Heather Demir
Psychotherapist
verified by TherapyRoute
“I am a clinical social worker with over 15 years experience working with globally mobile adults and families. I have a strong interest in working with clients who specifically want to explore childhood attachment patterns, culture and identity issues, anxiety, and childhood trauma.”
About Me
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and psychotherapist based in Istanbul. I help clients with anxiety, mood disorders, relationship issues, cross-cultural stress, and relocation challenges. I offer psychological and diagnostic assessment, MBCT, EMDR, and play therapy.
Approach
I use an integrative approach tailored to my client's specific needs and goals. My clients include globally mobile, bicultural, and Neurodivergent adults and children (including ADHD, ASD and High Sensitivity). I use an integrative approach with specialized training in EMDR, Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) and Polyvagal Theory, Mindfulness, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Synergetic Play Therapy, the Zones of Regulation, and cognitive therapies. Past clients have noted that they find my sessions though-provoking, and that I often ask questions that allows them to find the answers for themselves.
Services
I support individuals through one-on-one online sessions with anxiety, depression, trauma, transitional/adjustment stress, cross-cultural stress, addiction issues, parenting stress, relationship problems, and challenges regulating emotions.
Services Offered:
- •Psych & Diagnostic Assessment
- •Counseling
- •Ukraine Aid
- •Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
- •Play Therapy
- •EMDR
- •Individual Therapy
- •Learning Support
Works With:
- •Adolescents
- •Adults
- •Children
- •Parents
Area of Expertise
Scope of Practice:
- •Anxiety
- •Relationship Issues
- •ADHD / Attention
- •Cross-Cultural
- •Mood Disorder
- •Relocation / Expat
- •Life Transitions
- •Parenting Support
- •Stress / Burnout
- •Trauma
Professional Title:
- •Psychotherapist
Qualifications
University of Michigan
EMDR Institute, Inc.
Neufeld Institute
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Unyte Integrated Listening
Registrations
Association of Social Work Boards
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
