Cicek Erdem

Dr. Cicek Erdem is a dedicated psychologist who offers psychoanalytically-informed psychotherapy tailored for adults, adolescents, and couples. With a keen interest in interpersonal relationships, self-identity issues, emerging adulthood, and trauma recovery, she addresses complex matters such as divorce, loss, parenting, and existential dilemmas. Dr. Erdem possesses extensive experience in women's mental health, focusing on reproductive and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, relationship and attachment challenges, as well as disordered eating and body esteem. Passionate about working with adolescents, college-age young adults, and their parents, she aims to help clients identify and transform unconscious self-defeating thought patterns, emotional responses, and behaviors. Dr. Erdem believes that increased self-awareness of one's early history and unique aspirations enables individuals to make fulfilling choices, cultivate healthier coping mechanisms, and foster enriched relationships with others. Her therapeutic style is characterized by authenticity, warmth, emotional engagement, and directness. As a multicultural and bilingual professional, she embraces the opportunity to work with clients from diverse and intersecting identities, including international students, expatriates, first- and second-generation immigrants, and intercultural couples.