Psychologist, Couple and Family Therapist
Irem Soylu Bray
About
irem@yahoo.com
İrem is a Boğaziçi Psychology graduate, a family therapist and a preventive mental health advocate who reaches a wide audience on Youtube. She transforms her experiences at home and abroad into healing circles that integrate with nature and trainings that transform society. She continues to learn from nature and serve with the integrity of spirit-mind-body at the Algı Courageous Living Settlement, which she founded.
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Irem received her formal education at Saint-Benoit French High School, She completed her Bachelor's degree in Psychology at Boğaziçi University and her Master's degree in Family Therapy at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London in 1997. In 2003, after becoming a mother, she raised her daughter in an Aegean coastal town. On the side, she also ran volunteer projects for the local community. When her daughter grew up, in 2009 she started working with clients from all over the world as an online couple and family therapist. While continuing in this role, she also worked for preventive community psychology. Having more than two hundred Turkish and English videos on her Youtube channel, Irem aims to incorporate the integrity of mind, body and spirit into every work.
Irem, who has an adult daughter who has had to live in different countries, is determined to turn what she has learned from her encounters with evil into service to life.
Between 2016-2019, we have been working on an experience-oriented program that contributes to the formation of a new world. ‘Awakening to the New World’ made circles. Aiming to produce solutions on how to live in a ’world gone mad‘ in 2023, ’Life with Courage‘ started to organize healing meetings in nature.
Irem sees life as a journey of discovering and sharing her gifts to the world. With the online trainings she offers from time to time, she contributes to the training of community transformers all over Turkey.
She continues to conduct research and practices on learning from nature and healing with nature at the Algı Courageous Living Settlement, which she founded.
Since 1995, he has been practicing Taichi and Chikung in his martial arts training camps for serenity of mind, body and spirit.