Zeynep Guney, MA

PhD Student Extern

Zeynep Guney

Zeynep Guney, MA

PhD Student Extern

Zeynep Guney, M.A., is a psychology extern at Spectrum Services, where she provides comprehensive psychological assessments, executive functioning (EF) coaching, and therapy for adults. Her work centers on the intersections of trauma, oppression, and psychoanalysis.

Zeynep brings over a decade of clinical experience in therapy and assessment, both in the U.S. and internationally. Her work is grounded in a deep respect for each individual’s developmental story, cultural and political context, and lived experience. She enjoys engaging clients in a collaborative process of meaning-making that highlights their strengths and fosters self-advocacy. Her background includes psychotherapy, teaching, and program coordination across diverse clinical and academic settings. She has worked with autistic and ADHD individuals in a variety of roles and contexts—and finds this work very meaningful.

Originally trained and licensed abroad, Zeynep is now completing the final stages of her doctoral training at The New School. She is currently an intern and a psychoanalytic candidate at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). She remains actively engaged in research, with particular interests in identity, neurodiversity, and trauma.

She is fluent in Turkish and offers services in both English and Turkish.

EXPERTISE

Autism and ADHD (including late-diagnosed and high-masking individuals)

Neurodivergent adults

Trauma and complex/developmental trauma

Identity development and self-advocacy

Neuropsychological assessments and projective testing

THERAPY APPROACHES

Relational psychoanalytic therapy

Psychodynamic psychotherapy

Trauma-informed care

Neurodiversity-affirming and culturally responsive practice

Executive functioning (EF) coaching

Diagnostic coaching to support meaning-making around assessments and diagnostic formulations

Autism

“The impulse to heal is real and powerful and lies within the client. Our job is to evoke that healing power… and support it in its expression and development. We are not the healers. We are the context in which healing is inspired.”
- Ron Kurtz

Trauma

“Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness...Trauma is about loss of connection—to ourselves, our bodies, our families, to others, and to the world around us. This disconnection is often hard to recognize because it doesn't happen all at once but rather over time.”
- Peter Levine

OCD

“A lot of people assume that having OCD means liking things organized or hating germs. It tends to be treated like a quirk or an endearing trait. But it's so much more than that. It's the one thing that prohibits me from being free of myself.” - Whitney Amazeen

ADHD

“Think of having ADHD in this way… You have a ‘Ferrari’ brain but with ‘Chevy’ brakes.”
- Jonathan Mooney