University of London, Birkbeck College

Alumna, School of Psychological Sciences

Other Affiliations: University of Essex, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies
Middlesex University, Centre for Psychoanalysis
University College London, Anna Freud Centre/ Psychology

Psychoanalytic Psychologist

Birkbeck College, University of London.

About

Academic Education

Diploma Psychoanalytic Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London 2008.
BSc Hons. Communication & Cultural Studies with Environmental Science, University of North London 1998.
Access Social Sciences: Philosophy, Psychology, Media Studies, Drama, City of Westminster College 1993.


Professional Trainings

NHS Cert. Mental Health Research, Camden & Islington Primary Care Trusts in partnership with the London Voluntary Service Council 2005.
PG Cert. Dance Movement Therapy, Goldsmith's College, University of London 2004.
Cert. Psychosexual Counselling, Breaking Free Counselling Centre 2003.
Cert. Counselling with Drug Use Awareness, Lambeth College 2002.
Cert. Counselling Skills, Mary Ward Centre 2002.
Cert. Humanistic Counselling, The City Lit 2001.
Cert. Co-Counselling, The City Lit 2001.
Cert. Counselling Theory, Westminster Adult Educatin Service 2000.


Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, along with Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Systemic Therapy, is one of the four leading Mental Health intervention models guiding Clinical Psychology training, research and practice in the NHS.

Ayla Michelle (everyone calls her by her middle name Michelle) originally trained as a Humanistic Counsellor and practiced for a few years in independent, voluntary and statutory Mental Health Services, before moving into the Psychoanalytic Psychology research field. Psychoanalytic Psychology Research focuses broadly on the causes of and treatments for, psychological problems. Michelle is broadly, as well as deeply, Psychoanalytic in her orientation, combining Classical Freudian, Kleinian, Lacanian, Winnicottian, Jungian and Archetypal, Psychoanalytic theories and models in her thinking and practice.

Michelle is a member of The British Psychological Society, Division of Clinical Psychology and Transpersonal Psychology Section and an associate of several Psychoanalytic Psychology centres, clubs/societies and research institutes.


Ayla Michelle Demir
British Psychological Society, Division of Clinical Psychology. http://www.bps.org.uk

Twitter https://twitter.com/AylaMichelle
LinkedIn http://uk.linkedin.com/in/aylamichelledemir


References

Freud Museum http://www.freud.org.uk
Anna Freud Centre http://www.annafreud.org
British Psychological Society (BPS) http://www.bps.org.uk
UCL Psychoanalysis Unit http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis
The Institute of Psychoanalysis http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk
European Psychoanalytical Federation (EPF) http://www.epf-fep.eu
The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis http://www.the-site.org.uk
International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) http://www.ipa.org.uk
Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR) http://www.cfar.org.uk
British Psychoanalytic Society (BPS)  http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk
British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC)  http://www.psychoanalytic-council.org
London Society of the New Lacanian School http://www.londonsociety-nls.org.uk
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust http://www.tavistockandportman.nhs.uk