Zümra Atalay

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zümra Atalay is a faculty member and head of the Department of Psychological Counseling and Guidance at MEF University. Her main areas of work are mindfulness, mindfulness-based therapies, compassion and compassion-based therapies. Her doctoral dissertation was also on these two topics. She did her postdoctoral work at the University of Rochester’s Department of Psychology on “Mindfulness and Psychological Needs.” On this subject she has articles in internationally indexed and national peer-reviewed journals, papers at national and international congresses, books and book chapters, master’s and doctoral courses she has taught, and master’s and doctoral theses she has supervised. She has completed the train-the-trainer program in her area of expertise, “mindfulness-based approaches,” organized by IMA (International Mindfulness Based Association). She is an international trainer for IMA, which provides training in 8 countries. She is a member of EAMBA (European Association of Mindfulness Based Approaches) and also sits on its board. Alongside her university work, she regularly holds MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program) and MBCT (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy) group sessions, trainings and individual sessions at her private office. She is the author of the book Mindfulness: Şimdi ve Burada (Mindfulness: Here and Now).