Zaza Yurtsever, born in Turkey in 1968, moved to Duisburg, Germany, with his family in 1981. Having completed his primary and secondary education in this city, he started studying at the Department of Psychology in Marburg University and graduated in 1997. Then, he had his master’s degree in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the same university.

Starting working in Clinical Psychology in 1997, Yurtsever has been living in Turkey and Germany since 2005. Having had certified trainings on trauma and addiction therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, hypnotherapy and NLP. Yurtsever has been working on psychotherapy, coaching, group therapy and continues to work on fasting and couples counselling.

Yurtsever founded the ‘Vata Academy’ in Berlin in 2012 with the well-known psychologist Johanna Kluczny and provided both individual and group therapies for those having weight related problems. He has two published books on eating disorders which contain special therapy methods developed by Yurtsever himself, which are titled Korkma Ye (2012) and Egoist Beyin ve Kilo (2014) and could be translated into English as ‘Don’t Be Afraid of Eating’ and ‘The Egoist Brain and Gaining Weight’.