After I graduated from the Department of Psychology, Izmir University of Economics, which is dear to me, I was accepted to Dokuz Eylül University Clinical Neuroscience Master's program due to my interest in brain and its working principles. My acceptance process of course was not easy like every other success story, as someone who graduated from the Turkish-Mathematics department in a bad high school education, it was beyond my dream to enter a department that accepted students with quantitative score type. But I can say that despite all my fears, as if the path had already chosen me, I performed an internship for 3 months to show my desire to work in the field and convinced my manager in the laboratory to take me. Of course, after that, I passed the Ales and Science Exam levels. One of the terms for admission was also to work as a psychologist in the Multidisciplinary Brain Dynamics laboratory. Thus, while working with patients with Alzheimer's for 2 years, I had the opportunity to get to know the human brain like a scientist. After completing my thesis, I decided to work in the sector as a specialist in order to see the real-life implications of my laboratory experiences. I started working with children and parents in schools with the influence of my current living conditions and environment. Since I focused on children and adolescents after working with 55 years and older, I continued to work while completing my trainings that this field requires. During this time, I have completed training on Play Therapy, Child Assessment Tests Training, Family Counselling and Mediation, Schema Therapy for Adults, Children and Adolescents, Transactional Analysis, and Istanbul University Cognitive Assessment System and Cognitive Intervention. During this time, I moved to Istanbul for my career goals and since then I have been interacting with families and children for 6 years. The core purpose of a psychologist is to replace or repair people's losses in the healthiest way possible. My life, which is dedicated to serving people who need support and skills after the loss they have suffered as a result of trauma, continues to evolve and grow in its own way to do my job better. In short, my studentship never ends. In fact, I am currently waiting to start my Master's degree in Clinical Psychology at Rumeli University. Conflicts, fears and difficulties may never end in life. But it is up to us to choose what we will turn them into by kneading them like a dough, I think this is the best teaching I have been given when working with children. Children's ability to be spontaneous and flexible no matter what they go through gives me hope for the future. I think the real key to inner peace and success is this ability to be flexible. I hope that with this article I can inspire young students currently studying at our University.
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