Psy. Betigul BARAN

She completed her undergraduate education at Altınbaş University, Department of Psychology in English in 2017. While continuing her psychology education, she did a double major with the Department of Sociology. She completed her MSc in Clinical Psychology in 2021 at Istanbul Kent University.

Throughout her education life, she took part in Altınbaş University’s “Children’s University Project” and other social responsibility projects as a volunteer psychologist. She completed her clinical training and internship as a trainee psychologist at Balıklı Greek Hospital. She did another internship at a private kindergarten during her undergraduate education. After her graduation, she completed Child Objective Tests Training, WISC-IV Intelligence Scale Training for Children, Denver II Developmental Screening Inventory training and Child Centered Play Therapy training and started working with individuals with special needs in a special education and rehabilitation center. During her graduate education, she completed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Family and Couple Therapies and Sexual Therapy Trainings and conducted individual psychotherapy sessions face-to-face and online.

She completed the Dynamic Psychotherapy Basic Training, Transference-Focused Therapy and Dynamic Psychotherapy Trainings for Senior Personalities, consisting of three modules, organized by prof.Dr. Doğan Şahin. Within the framework of the dynamic approach, personality organizations, personality disorders, interpersonal relationship problems, anger control and self-confidence problems are studied in adults and adolescents. Other areas she specializes in are depression, panic disorder, anxiety disorders, crisis, trauma and grief counseling.

She is a member of the Turkish Psychological Association.

She continues her professional life as a Clinical Psychologist at Madalyon Psychiatry Center.

Certificates and Other Trainings

• Dynamic Psychotherapy Training in Senior Personalities – Prof. Dr. Dogan Sahin
• Transfer Focused Therapy Training – Prof. Dr. Dogan Sahin
• Personality, Personality Disorders and Dynamic Psychotherapy Basic Training – Prof. Dr. Dogan Sahin
• Short Term Solution Focused Therapy, Dr. Nevin Dolek
• Crisis, Trauma, Death and Grief Counseling Training, Dr. Nevin Dolek
• Minnesota Multidimensional Personality Inventory (MMPI), Turkish Psychological Association
• Moxo Attention Test Practitioner Certificate, Moxo Türkiye
• Family and Couple Therapies, Istanbul Gedik University Continuing Education Center
• Sex Therapy Education, Turkish Psychotherapists Association
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Turkish Psychotherapists Association
• Aba Therapy Module 1, BBA Autism
• Child Centered Play Therapy, Aydın University Continuing Education Center
• WISC-4 Intelligence Scale for Children Training and Certification, Turkish Psychological Association
• Denver II Practitioner Certificate, Developmental Child Neurology Association
• Child Objective Tests Education, APAMER (AGTE, Bender Gestalt Test, Metropolitan Preschool Maturity Test, Good-Enough Harris Draw a Man Test, S.D.Porteus Mazes Test, PEABODY Picture Word Recognition Test, Gessel Development Figures Test, Cattel Intelligence Test, Frostig Developmental -Visual Perception Test, Urban Egy Test)