Betül Kanbur

Betül Kanbur currently provides psychotherapy services for children and adolescents aged 3-18, as well as counseling for parents. She also works as a psychologist at a private preschool, focusing on supporting and assessing the cognitive and emotional development of children aged 2-4.

She graduated as the third highest-ranking student from the Psychology Department of Boğaziçi University. During her undergraduate studies, she worked as an assistant in laboratories focusing on infant and child cognitive development and participated in volunteer projects with children under government protection. She completed one semester at Universiteit van Amsterdam in the Netherlands. In 2024, she completed her Master’s in Clinical Psychology at Istanbul Bilgi University with a thesis examining the relationship between children’s drawings and attachment characteristics.

During her master’s studies, she conducted individual psychodynamic therapy sessions with children and adolescents at Istanbul Bilgi University’s Psychological Counseling Center. She also worked as a co-therapist in the Children, Mothers, and Fathers Development Workshops (ÇABA), focusing on the social skills development of primary school children and their parents. Additionally, she served as a teaching assistant at the university, teaching courses on the emotional and cognitive assessment of children and adolescents.

In 2022, she obtained the TPD-certified practitioner certificate for the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - IV (WISC-IV) and has been conducting comprehensive assessments of cognitive development, attention, and learning difficulties in children aged 6-16. She specializes in Psychodynamic Play Therapy and has become a practitioner of Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C), designed for children with externalizing and behavioral problems, under the supervision of its founder, Tracy Prout. Furthermore, she completed Parent Counseling training with Psk. Dr. Damla Til Öğüt and Expert Clinical Psychologist Şeniz Pamuk, offering counseling services for parents.