Cross Cultural Therapy Workshop

Didem Atahan-Fabig is an international psychotherapist. Her focus is on cross-cultural psychotherapy, women, domestic violence and trauma.

After completing her B.S. in Psychology at Middle East Technical University in Turkey, she went on to a graduate program in Cognitive Behavior Therapy at Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Following this, she worked as a psychologist at Hospital of Neuropsychiatry Ettelbruck in Luxembourg. After joining Red-Cross Luxembourg as a psychologist, working with migrant children for two years, she followed her heart and moved to New York with the purpose of expanding her skills as a psychotherapist. She then joined Gestalt Associates of Psychotherapy (GAP), founded by students of Dr. Frederick Perls for a clinical fellowship in Gestalt therapy. While working in Upper Manhattan Mental Health Clinic in Harlem, NY with children and families, she completed her clinical fellowship and started a private practice in Manhattan. Upon moving to Germany in 2009, she again successfully built a private practice, while doing research on gender and domestic violence in migrant communities, earning a Master’s degree in Gender and Public Health from Freie Universitaet, Berlin and she is currently working on her PhD. Trained in EMDR, CBT, Gestalt, she has an eclectic approach identifying with phenomenological and existential therapies, and a never fading interest in cross-cultural experience as a psychotherapist.

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