ASLIHAN ERGUN Bio
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color: var(–deep);
font-family: ‘Jost’, sans-serif;
font-weight: 300;
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overflow-x: hidden;
}
/* ── HEADER ── */
.header {
padding: 80px50px 50px;
border-bottom: 1px solid var(–light-line);
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 1fr auto;
align-items: end;
gap: 40px;
animation: fadeUp 1s ease both;
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font-weight: 300;
line-height: 1;
letter-spacing: -0.02em;
color: var(–deep);
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font-style: italic;
color: var(–terracotta);
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.header-tag {
text-align: right;
font-size: 0.62rem;
letter-spacing: 0.18em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(–mid);
line-height: 2;
}
/* ── LEAD ── */
.lead {
padding: 70px 60px;
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr;
gap: 80px;
border-bottom: 1px solid var(–light-line);
animation: fadeUp 1s 0.15s ease both;
}
.lead-quote {
font-family: ‘Cormorant Garamond’, serif;
font-size: clamp(1.5rem, 2.8vw, 2.2rem);
font-style: italic;
font-weight: 300;
line-height: 1.5;
color: var(–deep);
position: relative;
padding-left: 24px;
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content: ”;
position: absolute;
left: 0; top: 6px; bottom: 6px;
width: 2px;
background: var(–terracotta);
border-radius: 2px;
}
.lead-body {
font-size: 0.95rem;
color: var(–mid);
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: center;
gap: 18px;
}
/* ── CREDENTIALS ROW ── */
.credentials {
padding: 50px 60px;
display: flex;
gap: 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid var(–light-line);
animation: fadeUp 1s 0.25s ease both;
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letter-spacing: 0.2em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(–sage);
margin-bottom: 8px;
}
.cred-value {
font-family: ‘Cormorant Garamond’, serif;
font-size: 1.4rem;
font-weight: 300;
color: var(–deep);
line-height: 1.3;
}
.cred-value small {
display: block;
font-family: ‘Jost’, sans-serif;
font-size: 0.75rem;
font-weight: 300;
color: var(–mid);
margin-top: 4px;
letter-spacing: 0.05em;
}
/* ── APPROACH SECTION ── */
.approach {
padding: 70px 60px;
border-bottom: 1px solid var(–light-line);
animation: fadeUp 1s 0.35s ease both;
}
.section-label {
font-size: 0.65rem;
letter-spacing: 0.22em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(–sage);
margin-bottom: 40px;
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font-size: 1.4rem;
font-weight: 400;
font-style: italic;
color: var(–terracotta);
margin-bottom: 14px;
line-height: 1.3;
}
.approach-block p {
font-size: 0.9rem;
color: var(–mid);
line-height: 1.8;
}
/* ── MODALITIES ── */
.modalities {
padding: 60px 60px;
border-bottom: 1px solid var(–light-line);
animation: fadeUp 1s 0.4s ease both;
}
.modalities-flex {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
gap: 12px;
margin-top: 30px;
}
.mod-tag {
padding: 9px 22px;
border: 1px solid var(–light-line);
border-radius: 100px;
font-size: 0.78rem;
letter-spacing: 0.08em;
color: var(–mid);
background: var(–cream);
transition: all 0.25s;
}
.mod-tag:hover {
border-color: var(–terracotta);
color: var(–terracotta);
background: var(–warm-white);
}
/* ── PHILOSOPHY ── */
.philosophy {
padding: 80px 60px;
background: var(–cream);
border-bottom: 1px solid var(–light-line);
animation: fadeUp 1s 0.45s ease both;
}
.philosophy-inner {
max-width: 820px;
}
.philosophy p {
font-family: ‘Cormorant Garamond’, serif;
font-size: clamp(1.15rem, 2vw, 1.5rem);
font-weight: 300;
line-height: 1.7;
color: var(–deep);
margin-bottom: 24px;
}
.philosophy p:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }
.philosophy em {
font-style: italic;
color: var(–terracotta);
}
/* ── WHAT WE WORK ON ── */
.themes {
padding: 70px 60px;
border-bottom: 1px solid var(–light-line);
animation: fadeUp 1s 0.5s ease both;
}
.themes-list {
margin-top: 36px;
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr;
gap: 0;
}
.theme-item {
padding: 20px 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid var(–light-line);
display: flex;
align-items: baseline;
gap: 18px;
}
.theme-item:nth-child(odd) { padding-right: 50px; }
.theme-item:nth-child(even) {
padding-left: 50px;
border-left: 1px solid var(–light-line);
}
.theme-dot {
width: 5px; height: 5px;
border-radius: 50%;
background: var(–terracotta);
flex-shrink: 0;
margin-top: 3px;
}
.theme-text {
font-size: 0.9rem;
color: var(–mid);
line-height: 1.6;
}
/* ── FOOTER ── */
.footer {
padding: 50px 60px;
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
align-items: center;
animation: fadeUp 1s 0.55s ease both;
}
.footer-note {
font-size: 0.78rem;
color: var(–mid);
letter-spacing: 0.06em;
}
.footer-mark {
font-family: ‘Cormorant Garamond’, serif;
font-size: 1.1rem;
font-style: italic;
color: var(–terracotta);
}
/* ── ANIMATION ── */
@keyframes fadeUp {
from { opacity: 0; transform: translateY(22px); }
to { opacity: 1; transform: translateY(0); }
}
/* ── RESPONSIVE ── */
@media (max-width: 900px) {
.header, .lead, .approach, .modalities, .philosophy, .themes, .credentials, .footer {
padding-left: 28px; padding-right: 28px;
}
.lead { grid-template-columns: 1fr; gap: 40px; }
.approach-grid { grid-template-columns: 1fr; gap: 36px; }
.credentials { flex-direction: column; gap: 30px; }
.cred-item { border-right: none; margin-right: 0; border-bottom: 1px solid var(–light-line); padding-bottom: 24px; }
.cred-item:last-child { border-bottom: none; padding-bottom: 0; }
.themes-list { grid-template-columns: 1fr; }
.theme-item:nth-child(even) { padding-left: 0; border-left: none; }
.theme-item:nth-child(odd) { padding-right: 0; }
.header { grid-template-columns: 1fr; }
.header-tag { text-align: left; }
.footer { flex-direction: column; gap: 16px; text-align: center; }
}
ASLIHAN ERGUN,MA
Advanced clinical resident
Advanced clinical resident
Therapy since 2007
Coaching since 2016
New York & Online
Coaching since 2016
New York & Online
“Life is already hard enough. By the time you’ve decided to be here, you’ve made it through so much — I want this space to meet you with the gentleness you deserve.”
I’ve been practicing therapy since 2007. After moving to New York in 2014, I continued working with clients in Turkey online while building my own coaching practice. I’ve been integrating coaching alongside therapy since 2016.
I hold a BA in Psychology and an MA in Social Psychology, and I approach healing holistically — attending to the psycho-social-somatic layers of each person I work with.
Education
BA Psychology
MA Social Psychology
Practice
18+ Years
Therapy · Coaching
Location
New York- The Soho Center for Mental Health Counseling
Languages
Turkish · English
How I Work
Holistic & Body-Based
I work with the whole person — mind, body, and relational world. Using Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, Polyvagal applications, and PACT, I meet you where your nervous system lives, not just where your thoughts do.
Client-Led Pacing
You are in charge of your process. The heavy things have a place here — but on your terms, at your speed. Reclaiming that sense of agency is itself part of the healing.
Compassionate Presence
I believe a therapist’s warm, attuned presence is genuinely therapeutic. Healing doesn’t have to be harsh. I hold space with care — and I hold firm on that.
Modalities & Frameworks
Somatic Experiencing
EMDR
Polyvagal Applications
PACT
Body-Based Approaches
Holistic Therapy
Life Coaching
Foreign Language Anxietyy
Online Therapy
Philosophy
I don’t believe healing always has to be brutal. Life itself is demanding enough. You’ve navigated so much just to get to this point — and the fact that you’re here matters.
What I care about most is keeping this space optimally gentle for you. I think of myself as a good container — someone who can hold the difficult things while you find your footing. We work through what’s hard, and we do it by opening space rather than forcing it.
So much of life asks us to perform, to please, to abandon what we truly need. In here, you don’t have to. You get to feel what you feel, say what isn’t working, choose what pace feels right. Reclaiming that — maybe for the first time — is where real healing begins.
I trust that when the nervous system finally learns, in small and quiet ways, that it is safe — the rest starts to follow.
What We Work On Together
Recognizing patterns and your own unwritten rules
Learning to meet yourself with compassion
Freeing yourself from others’ judgments & expectations
Hearing and trusting your inner voice
Allowing yourself to have needs — and to not apologize for them
Releasing control gently, on your own terms
Rewriting your story — and becoming its protagonist
Building relationships rooted in safety & genuine love
Befriending the life you have — and the person you are
Seeing yourself through fresh eyes
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