Psychology & design
Training in general psychology and digital experience design — focused on how people think, feel, and make sense of the world, not just how systems are built.
Connect with yourself
Understanding yourself. Navigating relationships. Living more deliberately.
I'm Yasin Erdal, a psychologist (MSc) and researcher interested in one fundamental question: how do we understand ourselves well enough to make better life decisions and build healthier relationships? If things feel difficult, we can talk.
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About
For more than 15 years, I've worked at the intersection of people, behavior and technology. My background combines psychology, human-centered design, human factors and an international life lived across cultures.
I've spent much of my career trying to understand how people think, behave, communicate and adapt. Today, I bring those perspectives into one-to-one conversations with people navigating relationships, difficult decisions, emotional patterns and periods of change.
My approach is grounded in psychology, shaped by real-world experience, and guided by curiosity rather than ready-made answers.
My role is not to have the answers for you, but to help you find greater clarity around what is happening, what matters, and where you want to go.
Where this comes from
Human-centered practice
More than 15 years at the intersection of people, behavior, and technology — including human factors work at Lufthansa on cockpit applications and other complex, high-stakes environments.
Across cultures
Lived in 7 countries and visited nearly 60, alongside years of facilitating workshops on communication and collaboration — bringing both lived and professional perspectives on how context shapes relationships.
Research
Psychosocial research on long-duration space missions — presented at SpaceCHI 2026 at NASA Ames and at SpaceCHI at the MIT Media Lab (2023).
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Research
Curiosity doesn't stop at professional practice
Alongside my professional work, I actively contribute to research exploring how people think, communicate and adapt, particularly in complex and extreme environments.
For me, research is a natural extension of the same curiosity that has shaped my work throughout my career: understanding what happens beneath the surface of human behavior.
SpaceCHI 2026
Understanding Psychosocial Dynamics in Long-Duration Space Missions: A Temporal and Human-Centred Analysis of Astronaut Narratives
This research explores how psychosocial dynamics evolve during long-duration space missions through a temporal and human-centered analysis of astronaut narratives.
Presented at SpaceCHI 2026
NASA Ames Conference Center · Mountain View, California
September 24–25, 2026
SpaceCHI 2023
Leveraging Emotion Tracking for Enhanced Group Dynamics
I presented this research at SpaceCHI 3.0 at the MIT Media Lab, exploring how emotion tracking could provide new insights into communication, team dynamics and human behavior in space missions.
How can studying human behavior in extreme environments help us think, relate, communicate and adapt in everyday life?
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Approach
How I work
Curiosity rather than judgment
We start by understanding what is actually happening, without rushing to label or fix it.
Patterns before prescriptions
Rather than jumping straight to advice, we look at the thoughts, emotions, behaviors and relationship dynamics that keep showing up.
Clarity before action
The goal isn't for me to tell you what to do. It's to help you understand yourself well enough to make decisions that feel genuinely your own.
Sometimes what we need most is not advice, but a clearer way of seeing what we're going through.
What we can explore
Relationships
Understanding communication, boundaries and recurring patterns. We can explore what happens between you and the people who matter to you, and how you might want those relationships to evolve.
Life changes
Making sense of transitions, uncertainty and new chapters. Whether something has changed unexpectedly or you simply feel ready for something different, we can explore what this period is asking of you.
Decisions & direction
Working through difficult choices, competing priorities and questions about where you want to go next. Sometimes clarity comes from understanding what is really influencing a decision.
Understanding yourself
Exploring emotions, behaviors, values and recurring patterns. Together, we can look beneath the immediate situation and consider what might be shaping the way you think, feel and respond.
Pricing
Choose what fits where you are right now. All sessions are available online or in person.
60-minute individual session
€100
A focused, private conversation to explore whatever you're currently navigating: relationships, life changes, difficult decisions, emotional patterns or questions about your direction.
Online · In person
Book a session4-session package
€340
Four 60-minute sessions designed to give you the time and continuity to explore a situation more deeply and work through meaningful change.
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Book a sessionConcession pricing
50% off
60-minute session €50
4-session package €170
For full-time students, people who are unemployed, on low income, or single parents — anyone for whom the standard rate would be a barrier.
When booking, include a brief note: your student status (grade and university name), or your situation — for example low income, single parent, or unemployed. A short line is enough.
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