Özlem Eylem-van Bergeijk
Consultant
Özlem Eylem-van Bergeijk was born and brought up in Cyprus. Her background is in Clinical Psychology. She completed her studies at the Institute of Psychiatry, King`s College University of London, and specialised in clinical assessment and therapeutic approaches whilst working with adolescents presenting with self-harm.
Funded by a personal grant from the European Commission, she completed her Ph.D. at VU Amsterdam University, and she investigated the feasibility and effectiveness of an e-mental health intervention for suicidal ideation among Turkish migrants in the Netherlands and in the UK. During her Ph.D., she collaborated with the Centre for Psychiatry, the Queen Mary University of London as a visiting research fellow. She received several public engagement grants and recognitions from prestigious bodies for bringing various disciplines together to increase suicide awareness among Turkish migrant populations throughout her Ph.D. Özlem also received a full-tuition scholarship from the Beck Institute Philadelphia, United States, to attend the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Depression and Suicide workshop where she met Prof. Dr. Aaron Beck and Dr. Judith Beck.
Currently, Özlem works with a mental health company (Cerina), developing CBT-based, Artificial intelligence-supported mobile applications for psychological disorders, as a research lead. She will start teaching at Webster University Leiden Campus, the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences in the FALL 2022 semester.