I-DEAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
Psychotherapy and Psychosocial Support Services
Welcome to I-Deal Psychotherapy
I-Deal Psychotherapy has been founded by the psychotherapist Gizem Köksal, who developed her professional experience in the field of migration. Gizem Köksal, with her experience in mental health and immigration, aims to provide support to individuals, families and institutions via individual psychotherapy, family counseling, organizational and individual immigration-oriented counseling. She offers face-to-face and online services to her clients in and around London, online to clients in other countries/cities.
She is trained in a variety of psychotherapeutic approaches including Clinical Implications of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (DATEM), Art Therapy (STD), and Child Centered Play Therapy (BirİZ). She continues to deepen her knowledge and experience in psychoanalytic theory and technique in adult psychotherapy. In 2021, She was accepted to the psychoanalysis formation training of PSIKE Istanbul, which is affiliated to the International Psychoanalytical Association.
She started her professional experience as an intern psychotherapist at Istanbul Bilgi University Psychological Counseling Center and continued as a clinical psychologist at the Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants. After four years in non profit sector and mental health work in the field of migration, she has provided online and face to face psychotherapy in private practice. She is the founder of the I-Deal Psychotherapy. She is an individual member of the British Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Services
Individual Psychotherapy
We are all born into the world of relationships. In the light of relationships, we begin to see ourselves through the eyes of those who look at us. When these relationships fail, when they are hit, we begin to perceive this inadequacy as a part of the self. This gaze plays a fundamental role in the decisions we make, our feelings, and the relationships we form. Psychological complaints and symptoms are the self’s attempt for reconciliation. In psychotherapy, it is the relationship itself that is healing. In a safe and non-judgmental space, one gains mastery over one’s own experiences and story. Our goal in psychotherapy processes is to open the door for discovering your own meaning and your boundaries.
Family Counselling
Being a parent or expecting a baby can be emotionally challenging. In the first years of parenthood, a relative increase in anxiety, social isolation and marital problems can be experienced. In this process, lack of emotional and social support can exacerbate psychological complaints. If these experiences sound familiar to you, you can seek psychotherapy and parent counselling. Our main aim in parent counseling processes is for you to dedicate your inner resources to enjoying raising your child and to reduce parenting stress.
Migration Focused Counselling
The migration process undermines the immigrant’s mental stability. There may be feelings of discontinuity in identity. Migration may result in an individual’s withdrawal from the affirmative environmental interaction that is necessary for self-development. This process, by its nature, activates the mourning process with losses and differentiated external reality. The uncertainties brought by the migration process can cause anxiety. With all these emotional processes, the identity is transformed. You can contact us to make sense of your experiences in the migration process and to feel control over the transformation you are going through.
Professional Psychological Counselling
Employers should be able to meet the needs of ethnic cultural diversity in their institutions and manage conflict resolution processes by taking into consideration of these differences and diversities. We offer migration-focused professional counselling to support the psychological well-being of employers and employees and to increase work performance. The counselling services for multi-ethnic organizations put culture at the center of professional relationship instead of locating it at the periphery of workspace. By doing so, the diversities are used as a tool for empowering employees, to affirm their strengths, enhance personal and collective wellbeing, and promote liberation within a culturally responsive manner.
Psychosocial Support
I-Deal Psychotherapy implement community-based psychosocial support interventions, which are based on the idea that if people are empowered to care for themselves and each other, their individual and communal self-confidence and resources will improve. This, in turn, will encourage positive recovery and strengthen their ability to deal with challenges in the future.Psychosocial support can be both preventive and curative. It is preventive when it decreases the risk of developing mental health problems. It is curative when it helps individuals and communities to overcome and deal with psychosocial problems that may have arisen from the shock and effects of crises. These two aspects of psychosocial support contribute to the building of resilience in the face of new crises or other challenging life circumstances.
I-Deal Peer Groups
Peer groups play an important role in socialization, especially in childhood and adolescence. Peer groups are the only form of socialization that is not under the control of adults. Peer groups provide children with the opportunity to be a part of relationships that are productive and beneficial for all parties involved. They also allow children to create relationships with one another without being under adult control. Peer groups foster self-exploration. Children begin to make decisions for themselves and participate in activities that allow them to express who they are. Children are also able to experience and work through conflicts with their peers, cooperate with each other, and compete with each other in peer groups.
Specialities
I-Deal Psychotherapy provides psychotherapy and psychological counseling services to help people solve their problems, maintain their relationships in a healthy way and increase their quality of life. Psychotherapist Gizem Köksal provides services only in the areas in which she is competent, with apporaches she is expert in, based on scientific and ethical principles.
Areas of Expertise:
Depression
Anxiety
Trauma
Loss and Grief
Obsessive and Compulsive Disorders
Somatic Symtoms that Company with Emotional and Mental Difficulties
Psychological Problems Accompanying Severe Physical or Chronic Diseases
Migration Focused Orientation Difficulties
Mentallization Based Parenting
Adaptation Problems in Divorce/Separation Processes
Attachment and Relational Problems
I-Deal Psychotherapy Values
I-Deal Psychotherapy’s services are grounded in researched based interventions and theories and are delivered in an ethical manner, always with respect for the client. Psychological services may not be the only treatment or service that will promote the growth of the individual in all aspects of who they are, and therefore we may facilitate a referral to other treatment providers and/or professionals in order to help clients actualize their full potentials. In this respect, our mission is to promote the growth of each client and our hope is that each individual discovers well-being.
I-Deal Psychotherapy provides a client-focused, competent, professional and ethical quality services to maximize client’s outcomes and satisfaction with psychotherapy and counseling. I-Deal Psychotherapy aims to make quality psychotherapy and counseling services more accessible to Turkish speaking individuals by addressing barriers to access, including financial, geographical and psychological barriers.
Volunteering is essential for the psychotherapetic process. In the psychotherapy and psychological counseling relationship, the confidentiality of the client is protected. All of the information shared during the psychotherapy and counseling process is kept confidential by the expert and is not shared with anyone without the client’s permission. In case of harming him/herself or someone else, the principle of confidentiality is violated, provided that the client is informed beforehand, and the necessary persons are informed about the situation. In the psychotherapy and counseling process, when a situation in which the specialist cannot help the client due to professional limitations, inadequacy or a personal disability is noticed, the process is terminated and the client is directed to a specialist or institution where he/she can receive appropriate support.