Ali Engin UYGUR

Clinical Psych. Dr. Ali Engin Uygur is an MCT-I certified Advanced Metacognitive Therapist, MCT-I Masterclass Training Supervisor, and ISST certified Schema Therapist.

He completed his undergraduate education in the Department of Psychology at Istanbul Bilgi University. Following his master’s degree in the Psychology of Religion, he completed his master’s degree in Clinical Psychology at Üsküdar University with his thesis examining the mediating role of metacognitions in anxiety sensitivity. He completed his doctoral studies in the Arel University Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Programme with his thesis titled “Metacognitive Therapy in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.”
Focusing on the field of Metacognitive Therapy since 2014, Dr. Uygur attended the International Metacognitive Therapy Congress held in Milan in 2015, and subsequently pursued MCT-I Masterclass trainings conducted by Adrian Wells and Hans Nordahl.
In 2018, he completed the MCT-I Level 1 training in Hannover and received his accreditation as a Metacognitive Therapist, and in 2020, he completed the Level 2 training held at the University of Oxford, becoming an advanced Metacognitive Therapist. He deepened his work in MCT through supervisions received from Prof. Hans Nordahl.
As one of the first therapists working in the field of Metacognitive Therapy in Türkiye, Dr. Uygur has been actively applying MCT in his clinical practice since 2017. As part of his doctoral research, he conducted Metacognitive Group Therapy applications with individuals exhibiting post-traumatic stress symptoms; with these studies conducted under the supervision of MCT-I co-founder Prof. Hans Nordahl, he became one of the first therapists to apply Metacognitive Group Therapy in Türkiye. Additionally, he conducted online Metacognitive Group Therapy sessions tailored for cancer patients for the first time globally, achieving effective results.
Dr. Uygur currently serves as a supervisor in the international MCT-I Masterclass trainings conducted by Prof. Adrian Wells and Prof. Hans Nordahl, making him the first Turkish supervisor in this field. In 2020, he served as a translator and editor for the Turkish translation of “Metacognitive Therapy for Anxiety and Depression,” one of Prof. Adrian Wells’ foundational works.
In his work within the field of Metacognitive Therapy, he focuses particularly on attention, metacognitive beliefs, the Cognitive Attentional Syndrome, transdiagnostic psychopathology, and meta-level clinical thinking skills during the therapy process.
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In addition to his work in Metacognitive Therapy, Dr. Uygur completed his training and supervision processes in Schema Therapy, earning the title of Schema Therapist by receiving ISST accreditation. He has conducted clinical and academic studies on the use of metacognitive skills within Schema Therapy, mode awareness, and the transformation of an individual’s relationship with their internal experiences, and wrote a book chapter as the first study in this field.

Continuing his clinical work in the fields of individual therapy with adults, group therapy, training, and supervision, Dr. Ali Engin Uygur is one of the co-founders of Novo Psikoloji. He also continues his psychotherapy work with adult clients at Limbus Psikiyatri, and provides Metacognitive Therapy trainings and supervisions for psychology students, therapist candidates, and mental health professionals.