Hazal AYAS, Ph.D

Born in İstanbul, 1986. She graduated from Fahrettin Kerim Gökay Anadolu High School in 2004. In 2009, she completed the Department of Psychology, Uludag University. In the Erasmus program; during the 6 months’ period, she continued her education at Universita degli Studi Di Torino (Italy).

During her undergraduate education, she has done internships at the Hospital for Mental Illness and Neurological Disorders and the University of Uludag University Medical Faculty Psychiatry Clinic. She started Clinical Psychology Graduate Program right after graduation.  She became Clinical Psychologist. During her graduate studies, she completed clinical internship and supervision in Uludag University Medical Faculty Psychiatry Clinic and Çekirge State Hospital Psychiatry Clinic. She worked in the part-time rehabilitation center and health services units during her graduate studies. She participated in National and International Psychology congresses in the process of undergraduate and graduate education with participant, oral presentations and poster presentations.

Since 2012, she has been an academic member in Üsküdar University, Department of Psychology. Academic interests include psychodrama, sport psychology, art therapy, trauma and post-traumatic development.

Since 2016 she has been a Ph.D student in the University of Marmara, in the department of Sport Administration Sciences.