I am a Jungian Analyst in Training in Berlin, offering Jungian analysis and depth-oriented psychological counselling in English and Turkish for individuals and couples, both online and in person.
I support people going through anxiety, emotional distress, grief, relationship challenges, loss of meaning, questions of gender and identity, and major life transitions, including career change and parenthood.
You don’t need to have a clear name or definition for what you’re experiencing to begin Jungian analysis. Originally known as the “talking cure,” psychoanalysis is equally a practice of deep listening — making space for inner experience, shared presence, and meaningful psychological change.
Jungian analysis is a depth-psychological form of therapy that helps bring conscious and unconscious dimensions of one’s experience into dialogue. In practice, we pay attention to past and ongoing life patterns, feelings, dreams, conflicts, and the meanings they may carry. Together, we work with these symbolic expressions as they take shape over time. At its core, Jungian analysis is grounded in curiosity and openness toward one’s inner experience, which is all that is needed to begin.
Why Jungian Analysis?
Psychoanalysis starts from a simple recognition: life brings uncertainty, conflict, loss, longing, and patterns that repeat themselves. At times, these experiences feel confusing or overwhelming and show up as symptoms, crises, or a sense that life has lost its meaning.
In Jungian analysis, such experiences are not treated as problems to be quickly fixed, but as signals that something deeper is asking for attention. Rather than pushing for external or superficial solutions, analytical work allows understanding and authentic change to emerge gradually and sustainably.
Is Jungian Analysis right for you?
People come to analysis for many different reasons and at many different moments in life. There is no right or wrong reason to begin. You may find this work helpful if you are experiencing one or more of the following:
Ongoing emotional or relational difficulties, such as anxiety, low mood, grief, trauma, or recurring patterns in relationships
Periods of transition or reorientation, including separation, illness, parenthood, career change, migration and questions of meaning
Questions around identity, belonging, creativity, or parts of yourself that feel conflicted, constrained, or difficult to live openly
How I Work
I offer Jungian analysis and counselling in English and Turkish. I work with individuals and couples, including parent–child dyads, online and in-person from private practice in Berlin.
An analytical session lasts 50 minutes. Jungian analysis typically takes place at least once a week, and sometimes more frequently. We decide the rhythm of our work together in an initial meeting.
Dreamwork is central to my analytical practice. Together we work with personal associations and insights from mythology and culture to explore dreams as meaningful expressions of the unconscious.
I offer depth-psychological counselling to individuals and couples facing relationship and parenting challenges, career transitions, changes in family structure (including divorce, migration, relocation), intergenerational tensions, and communication difficulties. Together, we decide on the focus and duration of the work.
I am also an Expressive Arts Facilitator in Training and when appropriate and mutually agreed upon, I may introduce arts-based forms of expression.
Areas of focus in my practice include:
depression and anxiety
relationship difficulties
substance use, body image, and eating concerns
grief, loss, and questions of meaning
trauma and early experiences
gender, questions of religious and cultural identity
life and career transitions, exhaustion and burnout
creative blocks
migration and belonging
My work is relational, trauma-informed, and rooted in the analytical psychology of C. G. Jung and contemporary psychoanalytical thinking.
As a Jungian Analyst-in-Training, I support people in listening more closely to their inner life, staying curious about their own resources, and developing a deeper relationship with themselves and the world—an ongoing process Jung called individuation.
In our work together, we listen for what feels alive and ready to be seen and heard in body-mind.
Through continuity and our mutual presence, meaning is allowed to unfold over time, revealing what may need to shift in order to live life more fully.
In my work, I listen not only to individual experiences, but also to the broader histories and circumstances that shape them. Family and collective histories — such as migration, war, or other forms of violence — along with language, gender, religion, and social background, often play a role in how we see ourselves and how others see us.
In analysis we explore these collective layers alongside personal experience, without reducing one to the other.
Language is central to psychoanalytic work, but it is not the only way we listen. Alongside words and moments of silence, my approach also makes space for bodily experience and creative, arts-based forms of expression, such as drawing or gentle movement. These can offer ways of exploring inner experience when it feels difficult to speak or when words are not yet available.
Terms and Conditions
Initial Consultation (50 minutes)
An opportunity for us to get to know each other and see whether working together feels right. We can talk about what brings you and address any questions you may have.
If we decide not to continue, the consultation is free of charge; if we agree to begin working together, it is billed at the agreed session rate.
There is no obligation to continue and if another form of support seems more suitable, I will discuss this with you and, where possible, suggest appropriate referrals.
Fees
Individual sessions are €65 per 50 minute session.
I work with a sliding-scale fee structure and offer a number of reduced-fee places to support financial accessibility.
Fees are discussed and agreed upon during the initial consultation.
Health Insurance
Please note that I am not part of the German statutory (public) health insurance system.
Cancellations
Please provide 24 hours notice to cancel or reschedule your session. Sessions cancelled with less than 24 hours’ notice are charged in full.
Location
My practice for in-person sessions is located at Mittelweg 50, 12053 Berlin–Neukölln, a short walk from U Leinestraße (U8).
Please enter through the front yard and use the rear entrance. The practice rooms are on the second floor. Further details will be shared ahead of your first visit.
As a Jungian analyst in training at ISAPZURICH, I adhere to the ethical code and professional guidelines of the Association of Graduates in Analytical Psychology (AGAP).
As an analyst in training, I regularly discuss my work in supervision using fully anonymized material.
Supervisors are never present in the analysis room, and no identifying information is ever shared—your privacy and confidentiality are always carefully protected.
The additional care, perspective, and professional support I receive from experienced supervising analysts quietly strengthen and enrich the work we do together.
All communication and material shared in the analytic process is treated with strict confidentiality.
About Me
I grew up in Istanbul, in a culture shaped by movement, tension, and layered histories. I learned early on that life has room for more than one thing at once—that sadness and humour, laughter and tears, can share the same space. This has stayed with me and shapes how I approach the analytical setting today.
My background is in cultural research and human geography. For many years, I worked in academic and international settings, researching how violence, exclusion, memory, and care are lived in everyday life. Alongside this, I have been involved in community-based storytelling and visual projects, working mainly with women and young people who carried their stories quietly.
Over time, my own life began to ask different questions of me. Becoming a mother sharpened my sense of responsibility and my attention to what truly matters. Moving across cities and countries brought repeated experiences of loss and renewal, of getting lost and reorienting. Working in highly competitive environments made both my capacities and my limits visible.
These experiences did not lead to a sudden break, but to a gradual clarification of what kind of life and work felt necessary and sustainable. This growing sense of flow and necessity, led me to pursue formal psychoanalytic training at ISAP Zurich.
My own life, and the lives I have witnessed, have taught me to work gently and respectfully with fragments, making space for whatever is ready to come forward and, over time, find its own form.
I live in Berlin with my family. Alongside analytical work, I lead vitality focused, arts based workshops and programmes with migrant and refugee communities. I also watch birds.
This is the short story.
When it feels right to explore yours, you’re welcome to get in touch for a non-binding initial meeting.
I work online and in person in Berlin, English and Turkish.
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Education
Diploma Program in Analytical Psychology, International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAP), Zurich, Switzerland (since 2023)
PhD in Human Geography (Political Economy), Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (2012)
MA in Modern History, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Türkiye (2006)
BA in Political Science, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Türkiye (2004)
Let either a tulip bloom within our chest, or else a rose.
Y. K. Beyatlı
Expressive arts is grounded in the therapeutic power of imagination. Using simple materials, everyday objects and open-ended creative tasks, expressive arts practices create space for a deeper sense of connection to self, others and to the world around us.
I am an expressive arts facilitator in-training with the Expressive Arts Institute Istanbul. I regularly organize creative expressive arts workshops in Berlin and in Istanbul. Please get in touch for current dates and further information.
Please note that, expressive arts is not about artistic skill, performance, or the “right” way of doing things. On the contrary, the aim is to look for beauty through curiosity, trust, and small creative gestures that support wellbeing in gentle and lasting ways.
