Staff

Banu Çankaya Şahin
Associate Prof.in Clinical Psychology
Glasgow/Istanbul


Banu Cankaya completed her bachelor’s degree at Bogazici University in 1999. She pursued her Ph.D. education at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, US, receiving her doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2007, after completing a one-year Pre-doctoral Clinical Psychology Internship at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY. She undertook her postdoctoral training at the Rochester Center for Mind-Body Research as a research fellow. Çankaya was licensed by the Education Department of the University of the State of New York in March 2008 to practice as a psychologist in the state of New York. Upon her return to Istanbul, Çankaya became an Associate Professor at Doğuş University. Between 2009-2017, Çankaya has served as an Assistant Professor at Koç University, and since 2017 Fall semester she continues her academic life at MEF University.

Her early research interests involved examination of cognitive vulnerability to depression and the effects of different stressors and trauma experiences on suicide. More recent research interests focus on prevention and public health, specifically examining socio-cultural factors related to coping actions and connectedness as factors supportive of wellbeing and protective against disorders. Her clinical practice is heavily influenced by mindfulness- based, third-wave approaches, mainly Acceptance and Commitment Theory and Dialectical Behavior Theory. Being a member of Turkish Psychologists Association, Association for Contextual Behavioral Science and Association for Behavioral Science, she provides services for adults, adolescents, and companies.
 
* She is able to provide services in English.
E-posta: banu.cankaya@cinardanisman.com