A GUIDE OF DEPTH
Soul-level healing,
heart-based living
Everything I do, I do for love.
This is the only appropriate response to what is happening in the world. My job is that of a doula—but for birthing your true self. For this reason, we enter… the depths.
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10+ years
OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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2 psychology
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20 years
OF SELF INQUIRIES
I celebrate nuance, relational maturity, and grounded spirituality. I hold two degrees in psychology and I’ve meditated through 20+ ten-day Vipassana retreats. I've been walking the same journey as you, for the past 20 years.
Embodiment, depth psychology, sacred relating
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I integrate depth psychology, somatic therapy, inner child work, non-dual wisdom, and principles of sacred monogamy. Reaching for the fullness of life and radical inclusion of human experience is a big YES for me.
The sane path towards the sacred
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The goal of my work is soul-level healing and natural unfolding of awakening, which—in my experience—defines sanity.
1000+ clients
In the past 10 years I held space for 1000+ clients navigating trauma healing, addictions, relational challenges, and moving from spiritual bypassing to emotional maturity. I am here to remind you of your birthright: living with an unguarded heart and facing the fullness of life with the fullness within.
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Cenk’s Life Journey
THROUGH THE MUD OF BECOMING
The
Split
Living as a Jewish in Turkey, studying Turkish history, but praying at home in Hebrew—a language he didn’t even understand—caused an internal identity split that Cenk tried to make peace with from an early age. He found an ally in his grandpa, who refused to move to the old people’s home and ended up becoming Cenk’s roommate—and a best friend. The death of his grandpa left a hole in his heart that decades later fueled his first non-dual enlightenment.
The
Why
Questions starting with ‘why’ became the breadcrumbs leading to his first Vipassana retreat at the age of 19, and to his choice of studies abroad—psychology.
The
Struggles
Student years came with a culture shock, a first romantic relationship, intense studies to secure the scholarship, anxiety and diagnosed depression. He found Vipassana again, and these 10-day meditations replaced his attempt to heal with antidepressants.
The
Monk?
By the time he enrolled for a masters degree, he had already completed more than 10 ten-day silent retreats, and one 7-month long commitment living as a monk at the center. Despite the regular meditations, he couldn’t escape his humanity—he remained reactive and relationships were revealing hidden pockets of shame.
The
Bypass
It wasn’t until he was given a book titled “Spiritual bypassing”, by Robert Masters, and he attended many of his in-person retreats for men that he understood the power of emotional, psychological maturity, and the radical inclusion of the human experience.
The
Work
He specialized in working with men moving through intense trauma and upon wrapping up his Masters thesis, he worked as a therapist at an addiction center in British Columbia. After three years of intense work at this secluded place, he moved to Montreal, and started to offer his services online, while immersing himself in the work of Jeannie Zandi—another key teacher in his personal and professional path.
The
Awakening
All the internal work has led to the ripening of his soul and after one of the sessions with Robert, he experienced his first non-dual awakening, unfolding naturally after moving through undigested grief of his grandpa’s death. The awakening lasted for a full day and he saw life through the eyes of perfection, the beginning and the end, the alfa and the omega—the infinite nothingness of God.
The
Home-coming
Nothing changed, yet everything changed, and life continued until a couple of years later, when he felt a call for a solo trip to Thailand and Sri Lanka. Seeing the big ancient Buddha statues in real life touched him profoundly. He felt at home.
Upon returning back to Montreal, he sat down, started writing and didn’t stop for two full weeks. 100+ pages were written, but no title. He knew this was the first half of a book he had to publish.
The
Heart
The journey of dearmouring his heart was an ongoing process deepened by the non-dual awakening a couple of years back. Shedding tears from beauty, pain, heartbreaks, perfection, and sadness caused by the world’s suffering—all of this created a pool of contradictions, which brought the title of his book to life. One day, during a sunny, almost a stereotypical scooter ride through the Bali rice fields he heard his voice saying: “And then I cried, till my name was love.”
The
Love
Cenk continues with his devotion to healing and awakening—himself and the people he works with. His life was one big “why”, until the only answer that survived was: for love. Everything he does is for love. And this commitment to love, is what allows him to create containers, so deeply safe and true, one can not avoid but soften into themselves, meet themselves fully, and maybe for the first time ever, be truly witnessed with love and acceptance.
