Born in 1982 in Bursa, Ezgi İçöz graduated from the Psychology Department of İstanbul Bilgi University by writing a thesis on Bipolar Disorder and Artistic Creativity.After completing her bachelor’s degree, she decided to focus on Expressive Art Therapy that integrated two of her great passions, art and clinical psychology. She did her masters in Counseling Psychology, with a concentration in Expressive Arts Therapy at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.  During her academic education she lived in India for 6 months. There she received an education for yoga teacher training and made researches and had some education about the co-use of oriental philosophies and western psychology.